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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Calling all musicians / producers! We’re looking for someone to make new [& on brand] music for the show, and possibly also join our sound production team. Listen to the full announcement on: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/25Yz... Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Found this lovely lady at the MFA Boston and I *wish* we'd known about her when we did our tattoos episode for @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social Anyway, here it is 😘 drawingbloodpod.com/tattoos-devi...

Little statue of a woman in rusty-dusty rose colored ruffled bikini and she's covered in tattoos from the neck down. The label below her states that the piece is by August "Cap" Coleman.

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Oh for new (and old) followers, if you're interested in histories of visual culture, science & medicine, and the macabre, you should follow @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social ! In the Drawing Blood pod, @emmamerkling.bsky.social & I chat about all of the sciency / spooky / beautiful things that we love.

Remedios Varo painting Creation of the Birds (1957). A bird-human hybrid sits at a desk drawing birds that take flight from teh page. They wear an instrument around their neck and sit in a mostly bare room with alchemical instruments.

Alfred Gilbert sculpture Mors Janua Vitae (c. 1905-1907). Bronze sculpture of a male-female couple holding a box atop a mostly green altar with more bronze relief sculptures on it.

Movie poster for M. Nigh Shyamalan's movie Old. A woman's body sits on the beach and while the rest of her body seems young, her left arm and leg are withered, and her foot is bones.

Painting by Master of Lost Balbases, c. 1495, "A verger's dream: Saints Cosmas and Damian performing a miraculous cure by transplantation of a leg." In an ornate frame there is a scene of two men in red dress and with halos placing a dark skinned leg onto the body of a white man whose diseased leg has been amputated below the knee. They are aided by three angels.

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Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Slowly thinking thru a BA lecture on “materiality” as an art historical tool/lens. My focus will prob be on Victorian painting & the many “materialities” & “materialisms” of the #c19th. Soliciting recs for a good set text on art history and materiality to accompany it 👀👀 #arthistory #c19th

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If you're interested in Victorian tattoos, see our @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social episode "Tattoos, 'Deviant' Signs, and Surveilled Skins"! open.spotify.com/episode/0IqE...

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S3 Ep4: Tattoos, 'Deviant' Signs, and Surveilled Skins

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Emma Merkling @emmamerkling.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Folks in Manchester & surrounds: anyone know of any jobs going (or soon to be posted) in conservation? A v talented conservator friend is relocating and looking for work, has worked at the British Museum, NHM, & also freelance… pls share!

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Daniel Fountain @danielfountain.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi all! There’s some amazing starter pack lists to help build networks, I thought I’d make one for those engaged with trans studies. Please let me know if you want to be added along with a brief summary of your interests/research! go.bsky.app/BdMEQoC

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Welcome new followers! To quickly see a list of past episodes you can either look us up on your platform of choice, or go here on our website: drawingbloodpod.com/episodes/ On each episode page is a carousel of images so you can follow along! #histmed #histstem #arthistory #c19

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Season 3 Episode 6: Seeing Voices, Margaret Watts Hughes, and the Science of the Invisible Episode 5: David Cronenberg’s ‘Crimes of the Future’, Surgery, and Performance Art Episo…

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

🚨NEW EPISODE ALERT🚨 join us to discover the strange & beautiful creations of Welsh singer Margaret Watts Hughes, made by the direct action of her voice c.1885–1904. We discuss early sound recordings, scientific ‘instruments’ (it’s a pun), occult science, Bell's severed ear... (contd.)

A nautical-looking abstract artwork in an ochre yellow.

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Love talking about Cronenberg with @emmamerkling.bsky.social 🥰 Listen to the new Drawing Blood episode, watch Crimes of the Future, and let me know your thoughts!!

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Our new Cronenberg ep is out! In 'David Cronenberg's "Crimes of the Future", Surgery, and Performance Art,' we get into body horror, surgery as sex, cyborgs, the cosmetic gaze, and meaning making (and more!!) Have a listen and let us know what you think drawingbloodpod.com/david-cronen...

Movie poster for David Cronenberg's 2022 film Crimes of the Future. A dark red background with portions of the faces of Kristen Stewart, Viggo Mortensen, and Lea Seydoux. Blow is Mortensen in a semi-organic walnut-looking bed-like object, with tendrils reaching down and attaching to him.

A still from David Cronenberg's 2022 film Crimes of the Future. A man in black underwear stands with his arms by his sides. His eyes and mouth are sewn up, and he has ears sprouting from all over his body - head, arms, chest, and legs.

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

New episode on tattoos!! In episode 4 of season 3, we discuss the material and visual culture of tattooing (example in image below), the art history of tattoos, contagion and pathologization, and criminal anthropology. Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts!! drawingbloodpod.com/tattoos-devi...

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Tattoos, ‘Deviant’ Signs, and Surveilled Skins

Season 3, Episode 4 'Human skin with tattoos of two women's heads and a sailor', French (1880–1920), Wellcome Museum Collection (The Science Museum, London)Gustave Caillebotte, 'Rue de Paris, temps de...

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

New ep of @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social ! I've loved Remedios Varo's work since I was an undergrad - it was such a pleasure to get deep into her engagement with the history of science, alchemy, androgyny, and the occult. Have a listen & let me know what you think! open.spotify.com/episode/0ZtD...

A figure draped in black and white fabric that fades into a black and white checkered floor. They turn a wheel that connects to a contraption in a house in the background. The contraption seemst o take in rainwater and distill it into small bottles.

$An owl-human hybrid paints with a bird on paper that then transforms into a real bird though the light that the owl-human figure is refracting through a triangle glass. An alchemical contraption is squirting out red, blue, and yellow paint onto the owl-human's palette.$ A androgynous figure sits in a study-like room with blue walls and high ceilings putting objects (like crystals and plants) on a musical stave. A feminine figure emerges from the wall to also place objects on the stave. Another stave is being tended to by a masculine-coded figure in the back right of the scene.

A androgynous figure sits in a study-like room with blue walls and high ceilings putting objects (like crystals and plants) on a musical stave. A feminine figure emerges from the wall to also place objects on the stave. Another stave is being tended to by a masculine-coded figure in the back right of the scene.

A woman with white hair that floats out in two horn-like protrusions and wearing a green cloak with a face in it exits a door holding a man's head in her left hand and a basket in her right hand. The man's head has a long beard, and the woman holds him disdainfully by the tip of the beard. She appears to be about to drop him into a circular pool of water in the courtyard she's in.

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

We've published a brand new ep!! "Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo" explores female alchemists, science and occultism, Carl Jung and esotericism in psychoanalysis, the Fourth Dimension, and alchemical androgyny. (And more!!) Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/0ZtD...

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S3 Ep3: Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo

Listen to this episode from Drawing Blood on Spotify. In this episode, Emma and Christy look at the complex paintings of the Spanish-Mexican Surrealist painter Remedios Varo (1908-1963). During our co...

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

Episode 2 of Season 3 has dropped!! 'Cannibalism on Film, Empathy, and Eating Disorders' In this episode, we discuss 'Grave (Raw)', a 2016 film by Julia Ducournau - a French body horror film in which a vegetarian veterinary medicine student devolves into cannibalism.

Movie poster for 'Grave,' with the film title in red at the bottom of the poster. With a yellow background, the focus is on a young girl's face. She looks intensely upwards, with her face tilted downwards, with her left nostril dripping blood.

The same young white woman as the first image is bleeding from her left nostril, holding her hand in front of her face. She looks up through her lashes. The title of the film is 'RAW' in white serif font, with 'WHAT ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR?' beneath it.

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Are you afraid of the dentist? Do teeth freak you out? In this brand new episode, "Dental Phantoms, Tooth Horror, and Medical Simulation," we look at the long history of dental phantoms (pictured here) to figure out the root of some of those fears. drawingbloodpod.com/dental-phant...

Dental phantom. A head (half silver metal from the nose up; half dentures) on a metal rod and base. There are some fillings visible in the white teeth in the pink gums of the dentures. The nose, ears, and eyebrows are gestured at but not delineated in the metal.

Dental phantom. Teeth inserted into a metal jaw placed into a wooden head (like one used to hold a wig). Held by a metal rod. Teeth in this dental phantom can be seen to be missing and broken.

Dental phantom. This one is missing all teeth in the jaw, but is framed with a more 'realistic' face, which is painted with blue eyes, ginger eyebrows and eyelashes, white skin, and curly brown hair.

Dental phantom. Hyperreal face from the nose down (white, rubbery skin) with mouth wide open and a front tooth missing. The top of the head is not delineated realistically, and is made with a flat white material. The head is resting against a dark blue padded headrest, and is mounted on a metal rod.

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

While we're planning season 3 of Drawing Blood, we wanted to bring some other history of science & med art historians to the podcast. Learn about early modern mines, the women who worked (or didn't work!) them, and how blood, alchemy, and the occult all fits into the story!! 🩸

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

Surprise - it's a minisode! Minisode 1 - Women and Early Modern Mines with Dr Gabriele Marcon We talk women, mining, menstrual blood, midwifery, and (?) Mount Rushmore in this episode. Dig in (ha) on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! drawingbloodpod.com/women-and-ea...

A lavish Baroque religious painting in an ornate gold frame. At the center is a blood red mountain - this forms the "body" of the Virgin Mary, although you can only see her face and her hands protruding from the mountain. Around her men kneeling - seemingly saints, kings, angels, and religious figures such as bishops. A sun and a moon are on either side of the mountain / Mary. A blue empty-looking globe is at the bottom of the painting and a dove is at the top.

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

NEW EPISODE ALERT!! We talk about Alfred Gilbert’s c. 1905–7 sculpture of Eliza & Edward Macloghlin at the Royal College of Surgeons in London — which to this day houses the remains of the couple it depicts ! This ep is all about atheist relics, cremation, free love, & Victorian ‘infidels’

A bronze sculpture of a heterosexual couple holding a small box in their arms; atop a wood and green marble plinth with inset bronze frieze sculptures.

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Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social · 30/08/2023

The dramatic Nightingale monument by Roubiliac at Westminster Abbey. Joseph Nightingale tries in vain to protect his wife as death emerges from the locked vault. Death is partially shrouded and stares up at the pair. 🗃️ #c18th

A skeleton gazing up at the camera from a grand funerary monument

A funerary Monument in which a skeleton menaces a terrified couple with a long arrow

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Drawing Blood Podcast @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

Drawing Blood is now on Bluesky! Follow for posts about our episodes (on topics like bad horror, plastic surgery, the paranormal internet, and forensic dollhouses) and for news about upcoming eps (stay tuned for cremated throuples, Victorian atheism, and unloved surgical sculptures!)

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