Sensitive Subjects Pt. 2: Creative Practice and Ethics in Times of Loss
Olivia Turner reflects on the Sensitive Subjects: Creative Practice and Ethics workshop she organised at Newcastle University, turning to issues around bereavement and grief.
Why Practice Research? Creative Writing and Recurrent Miscarriage
Sabina Dosani explains the process that led her to creative writing research methods in exploring recurrent miscarriage.
A Surgeon’s Miscarriage
Surgeon Carmen Fong reflects on her experience of miscarriage while working in a demanding and male-dominated profession
I Want to Zoom with the Baby in My Womb: Pregnancy During the Pandemic
In this personal essay Cleo Hanaway-Oakley reflects on being pregnant during the pandemic and the importance of ultrasound scan imagery.
‘Dead Babies and Seaside Towns’ reviewed by Dr Fiona Johnstone
‘Dead Babies and Seaside Towns’ by Alice Jolly (Unbound, 2015) Alice Jolly’s memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns is a timely attempt to address the double taboo of stillbirth and infertility, ‘to talk about