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Alex Henry
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Interested in chronic illness, crip theory and contemporary lit. Bookseller. He/Him.
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"A critical view of neurodivergent 'compensatory strategies' [in communication] makes it possible to frame them as chameleonic survival abilities to celebrate, rather than bad mimicking of neurotypical abilities." - @marocchini.bsky.social

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Neurodivergent Pragmatics: Does Neurodivergent Communication Exist?
Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference Takeover: Eleonora Marocchini reflects on neurodivergent pragmatics: a new critical view of clinical pragmatics in cross-neurotype communication research …
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June 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Shaul Bar-Haim reviews Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat by Hannah Proctor (Verso, 2024): "Proctor’s book puts the connection between politics and care at the forefront of any political project from the left"
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Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat | Book Review
Shaul Bar-Haim reviews Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat (Verso, 2024) by Hannah Proctor.
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June 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Daniel P Jones respond to a recent Polyphony essay exploring the access difficulties of wearing face-masks.

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Being a masking crip killjoy
Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Daniel P Jones respond to a recent Polyphony essay exploring the access difficulties of wearing face-masks. Introduction In response to Phillips and Soorenian’s recent c…
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June 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Neil Vickers reviews Maria Guilia Marini's Non-violent Communication and Narrative Medicine for Promoting Sustainable Health (@springer1842.bsky.social, 2024): "required reading for anyone interested in how to extend narrative medicine into new areas".

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May 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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@islayshelbourne.bsky.social reports from the inaugural symposium of the newly formed Medical Humanities Network at the University of St Andrews, drawing out shared themes and methods across disciplines. Organised by @richardtbellis.bsky.social & Morven Shearer.

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St Andrews Medical Humanities Network Inaugural Symposium: Conference Review
Islay Shelbourne reports from the inaugural symposium of the newly established Medical Humanities Network at the University of St Andrews.
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April 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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🚀 Delighted to announce the publication of our new #MedHums101 brochure: ‘What is Medical Humanities?’ We hope it sparks your imagination, inspires your curiosity & encourages you to engage in our vibrant interdisciplinary field! tinyurl.com/what-is-med-...
Med Hums 101: What is Medical Humanities?
The Polyphony is delighted to launch the publication of a new brochure – MedHums 101: What is medical humanities?
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March 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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@icarousse.bsky.social reviews Embodied Books: Experiencing the Health Humanities Through Artists' Books (Peter Lang, 2024) by Darian Goldin Stahl: "eloquently and passionately advocates the value of practice-as-research in compelling ways".
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March 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Michaela Clark reports on the 3 day workshop 'Curating Medical Heritage: Reconciliation & Indigeneity' organised by Cecilia Rodéhn as part of the @matarikinetwork.bsky.social funded project Curating Cultural Heritage for the Medical and Health Humanities
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Curating Medical Heritage 1: Reconciliation and Indigeneity
Michaela Clark reflects on the three-day workshop Curating Medical Heritage: Reconciliation and Indigeneity held in Uppsala & Stockholm on 23-25 September 2024 as part of the Matariki-funded pr…
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March 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Purbita Das reviews Sensorium (@cambridgeup.bsky.social, 2024) by David Howes: "a rallying cry for scholars across disciplines to embrace the sensorium as a dynamic, culturally embedded and politically significant domain of inquiry".

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Sensorium: Book Review
Purbita Das reviews Sensorium: Contextualising the Senses and Cognition in History and Across Cultures by David Howes (Cambridge UP, 2024) and explores how the text can inform her own work on cultu…
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March 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Disabled People Against Cuts vital solidarity and planning event this weekend. Please RT if possible. #Disability #DisabilityJustice
Here’s an alt text description for the image: A screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) with the hashtag #HandsOffDisabilityBenefits. The post discusses Rachel Reeves announcing cuts to benefits and calls for action, encouraging people to join an online campaign planning meeting. The meeting is scheduled for Sunday, 9th March 2025, from 2-4 pm. Below the text, there is an image with a bold headline that says “Hands off disability benefits!”, followed by the meeting details and a registration link. The image also contains the DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) logo, which features a circle with interlocked arms of different skin tones and the words “Disabled People Against Cuts.”
March 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Would love to hear from anyone interested in zines and disability justice who wants to write about this launch event or the display itself (opening 14 March) for @the-polyphony.bsky.social curated by @zinejam.bsky.social for @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

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Transnational Zines
Join an online discussion about zines and zine cultures from around the world.
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March 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Zara-Louise Stubbs reviews The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire by Jessica Hamel-Akré (@atlanticbooks.bsky.social, 2024): "what does it mean to feel hungry? What does it mean, more specifically, to think through hunger?"

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The Art of Not Eating: Book Review
Zara-Louise Stubbs reviews The Art of Not Eating: A Doubtful History of Appetite and Desire by Jessica Hamel-Akré (Atlantic Books, 2024).
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February 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Zeena Feldman reviews Meg-John Barker's Queer Creative Health zine series, produced for and with @queercircle.bsky.social: "zines are everything academia isn’t. They’re democratic. They’re radical. And they most definitely are not interested in respectability". thepolyphony.org/2025/02/20/q...
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.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Really enjoyed writing about @pollyrowena.bsky.social's 'Some of Us just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better' (2023) & how nature writing can call for feminist disability justice for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. Big thanks to the editors for facilitating conversations like this 🌿
January 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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@milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social reviews Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (2023) by @pollyrowena.bsky.social, a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writing #medhums #medicalhumanities thepolyphony.org/2025/01/28/a...
Illness and Nature Writing 1: Some of Us Just Fall Book Review
Milena Schwab-Graham reviews Polly Atkin’s Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023), a memoir which combines feminist disability justice and nature writ…
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January 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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@leahmilena.bsky.social reviews Helen Charman’s Mother State through the lens of her own experience, exploring the cultural narrative of motherhood and its radical potential from the 1970’s to the present.
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Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood: Book Review
Leah Sidi reviews Helen Charman’s Mother State through the lens of her own experience, exploring the cultural narrative of motherhood and its radical potential from the 1970’s to the present.
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January 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Pragya Dev and Binod Mishra review Alan Bleakley's Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics and explore what the text has to offer MH scholars working outside of the Global North #medhums #medicalhumanities
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Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics Book Review
Pragya Dev and Binod Mishra review Medical Humanities: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics by Alan Bleakley (Routledge, 2023).
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January 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM