@alexbhenry.bsky.social
Interested in chronic illness, crip theory and contemporary lit. Bookseller. He/Him.
"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
thepolyphony.org/2025/06/27/n...
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"
thepolyphony.org/2025/06/12/b...
Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Daniel P Jones respond to a recent Polyphony essay exploring the access difficulties of wearing face-masks.
thepolyphony.org/2025/06/02/m...
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".
thepolyphony.org/2025/05/07/m...
@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.
thepolyphony.org/2025/04/16/s...
🚀 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-...
31.03.2025 11:10 — 👍 33 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 2@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".
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/28/e...
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
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/26/c...
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".
thepolyphony.org/2025/03/20/s...
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.”
Disabled People Against Cuts vital solidarity and planning event this weekend. Please RT if possible. #Disability #DisabilityJustice
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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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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?"
thepolyphony.org/2025/02/27/h...
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...
20.02.2025 12:05 — 👍 15 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1Really 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 🌿
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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...
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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.
thepolyphony.org/2025/01/15/m...
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
thepolyphony.org/2025/01/16/a...
