In the Zine House: The Kitchen
We explore zines that centre food in Part Four of Lea Cooper’s six-part series about the study of zines in the medical humanities. Most good zine titles involve a pun. This title is a
In the Zine House: The Bathroom
In Part Three of Lea Cooper’s six-part series about the study of zines in the medical humanities, we move from the living room to the bathroom, containing zines around (Self-)Care. Most good zine titles
In the Zine House: The Living Room
In Part Two of Lea Cooper’s six-part series about the study of zines in the medical humanities, we move from the bedroom to the living room, where we encounter zines about trauma and memory.
In the Zine House: The Bedroom
In this six-part series about the study of zines in the medical humanities, Lea Cooper starts in the bedroom, where many zines begin their lives. Most good zine titles involve a pun. This title
‘Sense Methods’ Symposium: ‘Re-Odorising’ the Past
Rachel Clamp attends the ‘Sense Methods: Literature, History and Embodied Experience’ symposium at Durham’s Institute of Medical Humanities. The ‘Sense Methods’ symposium, held in June 2022, was designed to bring together colleagues with an
Reading Romance, and Not Necessarily Minds
Bridget Bartlett explores the double empathy problem reading Sir Philip Sidney’s romance, The Countess of Pemproke’s Arcadia (1593), in a paper presented at the Medical Humanities and the Fantastic: Neurodiversity and Disability Online Symposium.
Roll for Initiative: How Gaming Graphic Novels Are Changing Neurodivergent Representation in Children’s Literature
In their article, presented at the Medical Humanities and the Fantastic: Neurodiversity and Disability Online Symposium, Jennifer Slagus explores how #OwnVoices children’s books and gaming graphic novels help removing stigma, nurture better representation, and
‘A Philosophy of Madness’ Book Forum: Part Three
Becki Smith reviews A Philosophy of Madness: The Experience of Psychotic Thinking (The MIT Press, 2020) by Wouter Kusters (translated by Nancy Forest-Flier). This is Part Three of a Book Forum on A Philosophy
Life and Death in the Nervous System: A Review of Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s ‘Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age’
James Rakoczi reviews Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Unraveling is about facilitated communication, regimes of personhood, and just how far our nervous systems
Fantastic Autistic: Neurodiversity, Estrangement and Playing with the Weird
Creative writer David Hartley reflects on the connections – productive and problematic – between autism and the fantastical. Being a younger sibling to an autistic person is in itself something of curious experience. The