I'm honoured to have been invited to speak alongside parent activists and social scientists at this brilliant event, 'A Decade of Zika' on 18th September @dukeghi.bsky.social @kelizaw.bsky.social more info and sign-up link: www.vitalfutures.org/adecadeofzika/

We spent the afternoon discussing possible collaborative projects, funding bids, articles and events, all while using collage to design our 'dream' future research project

Our event is today - a research symposium exploring Indigenous people's health and wellbeing in the context of anthropogenic climate change, hosted at @ucl.ac.uk

My first PhD paper is officially out in Social Science and Medicine!! It is called 'The unmothering of care: childhood disability, structural violence, and the politicisation of motherhood' and draws on ethnographic fieldwork with mothers raising disabled children in Barranquilla, Colombia

It's been a great day of discussions about inclusive approaches to climate change adaptation with really diverse contributions from a wide range of disciplines and sectors

Today I'm at the new UCL East campus for the first time ever, attending the GDI Hub roundtable on Disability Inclusive Solutions for the Climate Crisis #DisabilityRights #ClimateChange #Sustainability #DisasterRiskReduction

A successful panel on disability, temporality and social movements in Latin America at #SLAS2025 with @annalandre.com , Lucía Guerrero and Eliana Rosas. Thanks to everyone who came!

At this point I'd welcome Clippy back with open arms

I've just finished reading Changing Birth in the Andes by Lucia Guerra Reyes. A fascinating ethnography of Peru's intercultural birthing policy and the different groups of women who were supposed to deliver and adhere to it

I'm late to the game, but I finished reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman at the weekend. I enjoyed this book so much, and a lot of the Lees story resonated with the experiences that the participants in my PhD research shared with me

I'm presenting some findings from my PhD research in a seminar at the University of Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology on Weds 27th November at 4pm!! Very kindly invited by Dr Lucy Lowe and coordinated by Chiara Chiavaroli
🤩 edin.ac/3YNCGsy

I really enjoyed Good Enough Mothers by JM López. He puts forward a clear critique of top-down development efforts that trample on the rights of marginalised people in the name of 'progress'.

From there, Conceiving the New World Order was a natural next step! I borrowed this from the Uni of Exeter library 2 days before the first UK COVID-19 lockdown, and it is still on my shelf 🫣

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus by Rayna Rapp was one of the first ethnographic texts I ever read! Formative in the development of my PhD project and the start of my #MedAnth journey! I recently had the great honour of meeting Rayna at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social thanks to @rishie.bsky.social