This essay collection refuses to ‘reduce neurodiversity to a pathologised object of clinical study or passive trope in literature’, say Betsy Selvam and Helen Edgar.

Loshini Rajentharan explains why mythological vignettes help her reflect on her work with psychiatric patients.

Sarah Boira introduces their Bed Theory, noticing the assumptions and borders of the seemingly mundane object of the bed.

Arlene Jackson’s reflective cyanotype prints allow the sun’s rays to transform a body dehumanised by sexist medical disbelief into ‘something extraordinary’.

Kate Marks and Tracey Falcon’s polyvocal creative text, with artwork and audio, explores spinal cord injury and movement within the human and non-human environment.

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Anindita Charles Xavier explores the representation of disability, state control, and body politics in Ishiguro’s novel.

Leo Gunn explores epistemic injustice, “a wrong done to someone specifically in their capacity as a knower” in chronic illness.

A quiet practice of attention, belonging, and rest in urban parks from Yewande Okuleye.

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Rianna Raymond-Williams discusses ‘Unboxing’, a methodology taking reproductive health research to Black Caribbean women.

Ellc looks at how a series of vocal workshops at QUEERCIRCLE allowed queer folk to more fully embody their voices.

Phoebe Eustance explores how institutions like QUEERCIRCLE can embrace ‘malleability’ as a radical practice.

Anni Raw reflects on the dynamic between trust and risk set up through crafting activities at QUEERCIRCLE.

Lu Wilson reflects on research commissioned by QUEERCIRCLE in 2024 into best practice around trans youth work.

PJ Annand and Lucy Wood ask: what does the term ‘safe space’ really mean, and how does this play out in the public health field?

Frances Williams of QUEERCIRCLE makes the case for ‘queering’ the ongoing UK public policy agenda of ‘creative health’.

Grace Cooke, Lorenzo Meira-Gobel and Rory Hankins ask: what might it mean to approach English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teaching through the lens of the medical humanities?

Christian Hanser describes relating via the traditional dwelling of the shepherd’s hut to spheres once inaccessible to him due to neuronormative standards in career development.

Artist Priyanka Paul unsettles care work as they illustratively and poetically reckon with the reality of children caretaking for their chronically ill parents.

Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover: Natasha Downs calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies and Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and just…

Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference Takeover: Eleonora Marocchini reflects on neurodivergent pragmatics: a new critical view of clinical pragmatics in cross-neurotype communication research …

Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover: Protichi Chatterjee on neurodivergent epistemology beyond Western diagnostic frameworks, via Vietnamese choreographer Anh Vo.

Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference takeover: Ren reflects on their time as a trainee school counsellor, identifying the neuroqueering practices of gender non-conforming and neurodivergent c…

Theological ethicists Caleb Day and Jonathan Dunn track the emergence of neurodivergent liberation theologies as part of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies Conference takeover.

Arlene Jackson reflects on a photomontage created by the artist Ashley Cook, in light of her chronic illness relapse.

Jane Hartshorn’s poetry experiments within the contradictory and temporary spaces of chronic illness, reflecting rather than controlling the experience.

Alec Finlay explores medical fatigue questionnaires through ‘subversion by means of soft poetics’.

Lea Cooper discusses and shares images of their PhD work, in which zine making was both research method and research focus.

The Polyphony is delighted to launch the publication of a new brochure – MedHums 101: What is medical humanities?

Sabina Dosani explores the tensions between biomedical knowledge and embodied subjectivity through creative writing.

Ellen Richardson and Michael J. Flexer describe an evaluation approach to performance, drawing on audience response, that combines words, sounds, and movement.

Ellen Richardson, Michael J Flexer, Hugh Malyon and Jennifer Noice discuss new ways of evaluating artistic interventions to provide clear evidence of the importance of arts-based community engageme…