Lisa Diedrich

@lisadiedrich.bsky.social

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Coming in early 2026: KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Current projects: #IllnessPolitics, chronic forms, & multi-modal pedagogies in action. Author of ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, TREATMENTS, & INDIRECT ACTION.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 19d

It's happening!! Pub date of Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine is just 2 weeks away. Order now with code NR26 & get 30% off @psupress.bsky.social!
#GraphicMedicine
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Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine book cover on the left with a blurb from Juliet McMullin on the right, which reads: "Keywords/Keyimages celebrates our differences and shared humanity, providing new perspectives through which we can reflect on and, ultimately, reshape the structures that define health and healing."
30% off with code NR 26
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2h

“In ‘Puerto Rico: A National History,’ I trace the longer history of [the fiscal, social, & political] crisis. We have a frail infrastructure, & there’s a massive exodus of Puerto Ricans leaving the archipelago. It’s a series of unfortunate events caused mainly by colonialism & lack of sovereignty.”

Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 8h

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

news.wisc.edu

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Brent Staples @bstaples.bsky.social · 8h

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.

Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

news.wisc.edu

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 10h

Fantastic play-by-play thread of Bad Bunny's halftime show, including awesome alt text. I learned a lot.

Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 10h

And now it's time for some goddamn PERREO

Girls throwing ass in front of the casita

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 10h

I didn't see the ad (it sounds horrifying), but immediately thought of your poster...

Reposted by Rosemary A. Joyce, Lisa Diedrich

Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 10h

And now it's time for some goddamn PERREO

Reposted by Daniel W. Drezner, Lisa Diedrich, Nathan P. Kalmoe

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10h

FYI: The little boy in Bad Bunny's #SuperBowl halftime show wasn't Liam Ramos as some have said, it was a child actor: Lincoln Fox www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/...

Instagram

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 10h

Seeing lots of posts about a certain Super Bowl ad, so reposting this brilliant sketch from @katbamkapow.bsky.social just because.

kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 20d

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 11h

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 11h

Contrapuntal Monroe Doctrine.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12h

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

Reposted by Lisa Diedrich

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12h

That critique of the government extracting resources from PR. The power poles.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 12h

Here is what RFK Jr said at the beginning of the measles outbreak.
bsky.app/profile/lisa...

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · May 12

After RFK Jr. says “only very sick kids should die from measles,” he corrects himself & says, “nobody should die,” but, wow, if this doesn’t capture how his anti-vax stance & eugenics go hand-in-hand. And Fox is just going all in on normalizing kids getting measles. Scary stuff.
#IllnessPolitics

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · May 11

RFK Jr talking about the need for doctors to know how to treat measles for those who are unvaccinated.

“Only very sick kids should die from measles.”

No. They shouldn’t. That was the point of the vaccine. We eradicated the virus so children didn’t die.

Sick & disabled kids are not expendable!

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 12h

“Critics of Kennedy have argued that the health secretary's longtime skepticism of US vaccine recommendations & past sympathy for the unfounded claim that vaccines may cause autism may influence official public health guidance in ways contrary to the medical consensus.” Critics argue? jfc

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 12h

Too little, too late from Dr. Oz. Perhaps he’s beginning to worry about his reputation? However, the article does not show him critiquing his boss & his anti-vax ideology & policies at all, which are already having devastating consequences. #IllnessPolitics

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14h

"Take the vaccine, please," said Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator whose boss has raised suspicion about the safety and importance of vaccines. "We have a solution for our problem."
https://to.pbs.org/4rYdvkn

Dr. Mehmet Oz urges public to take the measles vaccine as U.S. cases rise

“Take the vaccine, please,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator. “We have a solution for our problem.”

www.pbs.org

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 13h

And here I was thinking gender & potato chips…

Reposted by Lisa Diedrich

PBS News @pbsnews.org · 14h

Dr. Mehmet Oz urges public to take the measles vaccine as U.S. cases rise

“Take the vaccine, please,” said Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator. “We have a solution for our problem.”

www.pbs.org

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15h

I appreciate how the piece emphasizes the multitude of languages that will be on show during Bad Bunny's performance.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 15h

"One aim of Cosme’s on Sunday is simply to allow a multitude of humanity to catch a glimpse of LSPR [Puerto Rican Sign Language] in action....'We’ve been fighting not to lose our language, but to keep it,' Cosme said. 'The Super Bowl will be an excellent platform for us to use our language.'” 🙌

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show will be interpreted by Celimar Rivera Cosme into Puerto Rican Sign Language, a unique dialect used on the island that academic researchers and other experts consider endangered.

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too

Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers.

trib.al

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

Bad Bunny’s Sign Language Interpreter Will Make Super Bowl History, Too

Puerto Rican Sign Language is not the same as American Sign Language. Celimar Rivera Cosme will uniquely capture the rapper’s slang for the game’s deaf viewers.

trib.al

Reposted by Lisa Diedrich

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Mhairi Forrest🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🤟🤟🤟 @mhairiforrest.bsky.social · 18h

Where to watch the ASL & LSPR (PRSL) performances & ASL interpreting during today's Super Bowl.

#ASL
#LSPR
#Deaf
#SuperBowl

Bowl LX Sign Language Streams
Transmisiones en lengua de señas
NHL
del Super Bowl LX
Feb 2026
8
ASL Pregame Performances
Actuación previa al partido de ASL
PRSL Halftime
Show Performance
Actuación en el espectáculo del intermedio de PRSL
How to watch?
Cómo verlo?
Fred Beam
National Anthem
Himno Nacional
2:45 PM PST
5:45 PM EST
Step/Paso 1:
Get your device laptop or iPad
Consigue tu dispositivo:
portátil o iPad.
Step/Paso 2:
Type in your browser
Escribe en tu navegador
www.nbcsports.com/asl
Julian Ortiz
American the Beautiful
Americano el Hermoso
Celimar Rivera Cosme
Apple Music
Plataforma Musical
5:15 PM PST
8:15 PM EST
• Accessible • Inclusive
• Sign Language Streams
• Accesible • Inclusivo
• Transmisiones en lengua de señas
NBC
Sports
Step 3/ Paso 3:
Enjoy watching
¡Disfruta viéndolo!

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 20h

The power of the comics form.

(Also be sure to read the alt text for a demonstration of multimodality in action.)

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde

Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

A large stuffed folder of files with the title “Epstein” is seen with what looks, at first glance, like a red page marker sticking out of the bottom. On closer inspection it is the bottom of a Trump red neck tie. French newspapers once again showing the kind of basic journalistic integrity lacking from most US national newspapers - whose collective negligence has helped ensure a man implicated in the world’s most notorious sex trafficking ring gets to remain President. That the orange pedo felon remains in office is a plague on all their houses. Cunts, one and all.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 21h

AI robber barons is a good term for the exploitative & corrupt practices, as well as the rapacious transfer of wealth, we are witnessing in the present moment.

Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 21h

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22h

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 21h

Seems in line with the fact that lots of us noticed that the general strike in Minnesota wasn’t trending. bsky.app/profile/lisa...

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 16d

I’ve noticed this too. Completely bizarre. What’s up, @bsky.app? How is it that Minnesota has not been trending today? Even the mainstream media are covering the general strike & protests.

#GeneralStrike
#ICEOutOfMinnesota

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 16d

How is "Minnesota Protests" not trending?

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 21h

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 22h

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

Reposted by Lisa Diedrich

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21h

“If I am peaceful in this discomfort, is not peace,/ is getting used to harm.”
Dionne Brand
Land to Light On

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 22h

“Political outrage” is the banality of evil of trending topics

Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 22h

This really is the epitome of trending Bluesky topics. Something British, sportsball, "political outrage" (can't phrase it better than that), something artsy fartsy, NERDS!)

A screenshot of a “Trending” panel with an upward arrow icon. It lists five items in order: 1) Morgan McSweeney, 2) Super Bowl, 3) Political Outrage, 4) Noir Films, and 5) Star Trek.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 22h

This really is the epitome of trending Bluesky topics. Something British, sportsball, "political outrage" (can't phrase it better than that), something artsy fartsy, NERDS!)

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 22h

Oh, wow. I didn't know that. Very interesting.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 22h

Not sure he was protecting Starmer or the engineer of his downfall. Good riddance, at any rate.

Reposted by Lisa Diedrich

Tori Lawson @lawsonvictoria.bsky.social · 22h

Isn’t her daughter in the Spurs kids programme? I think I saw that recently.

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