DMS 69: Art Activism as Rebellion Against Psychiatric Authority
Dolly Sen dismantles psychiatric authority through art activism, exposing the politics of diagnosis and reclaiming the narrative of madness.
Queering Creative Health
Frances Williams of QUEERCIRCLE makes the case for ‘queering’ the ongoing UK public policy agenda of ‘creative health’.
Zine for Children Who Have Had to Become Caretakers
Artist Priyanka Paul unsettles care work as they illustratively and poetically reckon with the reality of children caretaking for their chronically ill parents.
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.
Queer Creative Health: Zine Review
Zeena Feldman reviews Queer Creative Health, a zine series by Meg-John Barker produced for and with London-based LGBTQ+ charity Queercircle.
Comics as Research: Patients’ Reading in Psychiatric Institutions Around 1900
Anna Böhler’s research focused on the topic of reading practices in historical psychiatric contexts. She presents some of her findings in comic book format.
The Creativity of Autistic Students in the Arts and Humanities
Alex Chand, Rebecca Lewis and Anna Stenning highlight the role of autistic students in dispelling myths about both autism and the epistemic authority of the arts and humanities.
In the Zine House: The Hallway and the Balcony
In the final part of Lea Cooper’s series about zines in the medical humanities, we move through the Hallway and out onto the Balcony to consider zines, libraries and research.
In the Zine House: The Garden
Zines that connect to plants, the environment and nature often distribute knowledges with long histories as well as offering new ways of relating to the future, says Lea Cooper.
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.