Stigma’s changing face
In the second of our ‘Recalibrating Stigma’ mini-takeover, Fay Dennis and Hannah Farrimond explore the contextually specific and contingent nature of stigma.
Mrs Dalloway at 100: Virginia Woolf’s Viral Legacy
100 years after its publication, Lucyl Harrison argues that Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway should be read as a pandemic novel that contends with the in/articulation of pandemic experience.
Practice Research and Chronic Illness: ‘Fatigue Questionnaires’
Alec Finlay explores medical fatigue questionnaires through ‘subversion by means of soft poetics’.
‘Creative Adaptation is our New Task’: Art and Chronic Illness
Artists Alec Finlay, Katie MacLachlan and Brighid Ó Dochartaigh reflect on art as witness to erased realities (part two of two).
Chronic Illness and Creative Recuperation
Three artists with Long Covid discuss their process of creative recuperation.
Massively Disabled 2: How to Pack Like a Methodology Queen
In the second post of an ongoing monthly series exploring podcasting practice and the medical humanities, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril reflects on crip methodologies and ethics of counter-archiving disabled knowledge.
The Book of Illness
Artist-poet Alec Finlay and artist-writer Louise Kenward consider the generative and activist roles of witness and patient-led medicine, in reference to Moving Mountains, Kenward’s anthology of poetry, prose, essays and artwork exploring nature through a disabled perspective.
Massively Disabled 1: Welcome to Base Camp
In the first post of an ongoing monthly series on The Polyphony exploring podcasting practice in the medical humanities, Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril introduces “Massively Disabled: A Long COVID Research Podcast” and welcomes you behind the scenes and into the bunker…
Chronicity: Future in the Past (Part II)
Alex Henry, working on a crip and feminist disability studies analysis of undiagnosed chronic illness in 21st Century British women’s writing, explores the pandemic’s impact on his work.
Long COVID Patient Narratives: Part 2
In the second part of this two-part essay, Professor Phyllis Weliver considers the importance of long haulers’ voices for therapeutic expression, reframing social experience, and providing data for treatment. Read part 1 here. Narratives