Psychonauts 2 and Inner-Space Gaming: A Review
Rob Mayo reviews Psychonauts 2, a third-person platformer game on PlayStation 4 (Double Fine Productions, 2021).
The kaleidoscopic value of neuroqueer knowledges
Francesca Lewis attends to the growing movement of neuroqueer medical humanities and the potential of kaleidoscopic analysis in lived experience research. I recently completed my doctoral research exploring the possibilities of what I call
Olfactory Overload: Knowing the Neurodivergent Nose
Kim Crowder recounts, discusses, and explores neurodiversity and a heightened sensitivity to smell. Olfactory: Of or pertaining to the sense of smell; concerned with smelling. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. My first post-pandemic train
Neurodivergent Humanities Network and Mentorship Programme Launch
‘New ways of thinking, being and doing research’: the founders explain the ethos of the Neurodivergent Humanities Network and introduce their anti-hierarchical mentorship scheme.
In the Zine House: The Kitchen
We explore zines that centre food in part four of Lea Cooper’s series about the study of zines in the medical humanities.
In the Zine House: The Bathroom
In Part Three of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we move from the living room to the bathroom, containing zines around (Self-)Care.
In the Zine House: The Living Room
In part two of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we encounter zines about trauma and memory in the living room.
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.
‘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.
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.