When Psychiatry Meets Mythology
Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.
‘Mrs Average of the UK’ Makes Something of Her Menopause
Arlene Jackson’s reflective cyanotype prints allow the sun’s rays to transform a body dehumanised by sexist medical disbelief into ‘something extraordinary’.
From Pandemic Stress to Nature Connection
A quiet practice of attention, belonging, and rest in urban parks from Yewande Okuleye.
Cultivating Queer Voices for Dis-Alienation
Ellc looks at how a series of vocal workshops at QUEERCIRCLE allowed queer folk to more fully embody their voices.
Poetry as Chronic Illness Research: ‘Another Attempt’
Jane Hartshorn’s poetry experiments within the contradictory and temporary spaces of chronic illness, reflecting rather than controlling the experience.
Practice Research and Chronic Illness: ‘Fatigue Questionnaires’
Alec Finlay explores medical fatigue questionnaires through ‘subversion by means of soft poetics’.
Creating Mad Memorials: ‘A Place of Safety’
Lea Cooper discusses and shares images of their PhD work, in which zine making was both research method and research focus.
Embodied Books: Book Review
Lucy Carolan reviews Embodied Books: Experiencing the Health Humanities through Artists’ Books by Darian Goldin Stahl (Peter Lang, 2024).
Practice Research and Pregnancy: ‘Embryology Lessons’
Sabina Dosani explores the tensions between biomedical knowledge and embodied subjectivity through creative writing.
Developing an Accessible, Multi-Sensory Feedback System for Performance Evaluation
Ellen Richardson and Michael J. Flexer describe an evaluation approach to performance, drawing on audience response, that combines words, sounds, and movement.