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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#TeamRhetoric RHM issue 9.3 is out now! journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/vi...
Graphic announcing RHM (Rhetoric of Health & Medicine) Issue 9.3. Over a blue-tinted background photo of hands holding an open book, white text lists the issue’s contents: an editor’s introduction, “Academic Integrity at RHM in the Age of AI,” by Kim Hensley Owens and Fernando Sánchez; research articles on cycle syncing and postfeminism by Hannah Taylor and Haley Swartz, collective metis in LGBTQ+ health practices by Justiss Wilder Burry, and Black queer communities and the U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemic by Aaron Mallory; and a book review by Kerry Smith of Kari Campeau’s Rhetorics of Refusal: Medical Dissent and the US-Somali Diaspora. Teal geometric accents frame the upper-left and lower-right corners, with the RHM logo at bottom right.
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
We are excited to announce that Dr. Lora Anderson will be joining Dr. Fernando Sánchez as the co-editor of the journal beginning in August. And thank you to Dr. Kim Hensley Owens for all of her wonderful service to the journal throughout the last five years!
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#TeamRhetoric The University of Florida Press has shared a reading list of LGBTQI sources in honor of Pride month. RHM’s Special Issue 7.1 on Queer and Trans Health Justice is on the list and open access for the month. floridapress.org/pride-readin... journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/vi...
Graphic features a blue and magenta color scheme with a faint background image of linked metal chains. The text introduces a special issue on “Queer and Trans Health Justice: Interventions, Perspectives, and Questions,” guest edited by Fernando Sanchez, McKinley Green, and Wilfredo Flores. Featured articles include works by V. Jo Hsu, Ela Przybylo, Ruby Mendoza, and Sarah Price and Richard Mocarski, addressing topics such as trans diagnoses, menstrual pain, queer and trans methodologies, and biomarkers. The issue also includes a book review of Hil Malatino’s Trans Care by Teresa Williams. The Rhetoric of Health & Medicine (RHM) logo appears in the lower right corner.
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Hi #TeamRhetoric, RHM issue 9.2 is out now!
A dark blue promotional graphic for RHM issue 9.2 with the theme “Tackling Rare Disease Globally.” The image lists featured content, including three articles: “What to Expect When You’re Not Expecting: Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Constructing Risk at Advanced Maternal Age” by Melissa L. Carrion; “To Recover is to Relearn: Techne and Eating Disorder Recovery” by Molly McConnell; and “Psyche or Soma?: An Analysis of the Medical Debates Over the Diagnosis and Treatment of ‘Transsexualism’” by Samantha J. Rippetoe. A special section highlights “Opening Keynote: Research Methods, Lyric Theory, and Genres of Believability” by V. Jo Hsu. Book reviews include works by Erin J. Rand, Lillian Campbell, and Shui-yin Sharon Yam and Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz, with reviewers Justiss Wilder Burry, Maggie Hart, and Clare Frances Kennedy. The bottom right corner features the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine logo.
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Hi #TeamRhetoric! RHM issue 9.1 is out now. In this issue, we explore how storytelling is a method for making sense of illness, grief, and uncertainty in RHM and beyond.
A rectangular promotional graphic with a blue and green gradient background announces a special issue of RHM. Centered text reads “Theme: Story, Drawing, Loss, and Learnings.”  The left lists the contents in white lettering. A heading reads “Articles,” followed by: “The Ambiguous Narrative of Dick Johnson is Dead (2020)” by Nathaniel Aron; “Making Amends to the Dead: Reparative Ethos in Veteran Expressions of Survivor’s Guilt” by Kayla Rhidenour, Robert L. Mack, and Kristen L. Cole; “Valuative Alignment and Doing Vaccine Anecdotes with Moral Foundations Theory” by Miles C. Coleman; and “Using Natural Language Processing to Rhetorically Contextualize Audiences: Vaccine Sentiment Analysis of Newspaper Comments, 2017–2023” by Aaron Beveridge, Meriel Burnett, and John R. Gallagher. 
A second heading reads “Special Section,” listing: “Graphic RHM: An Invitation” by J. Blake Scott and Catherine Gouge and “The Work of Grief” by Ann E. Fink. 
A final heading reads “Book Reviews (Online Only),” listing: “Review of Rebel Health: A Field Guide to the Patient-Led Revolution in Medical Care” by Elena Kalodner-Martin and “Review of A History of Rhetoric, Sound, and Health and Healing” by Hua Wan.
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
#TeamRhetoric, We are accepting applications for a copy editing intern. In this role, you will work alongside the journal’s editors to prepare peer-reviewed articles for publication, assist with developing/updating the RHM style guide as needed, and routinely communicate with the journal editors.
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Happy Friday #TeamRhetoric! Looking for some weekend reading? Check out the new RHM special issue on rural health, edited by Justiss Wilder Burry and Melissa Stone. Read it here: journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/vi...
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Join today’s Third Thursdays meeting!
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Last call! 📣🚨 We are looking for editors or editorial teams to submit proposals for our special issue on Rhetorics of Health Technologies. The deadline is tomorrow! More info here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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CFP for Special Issue
Rhetoric of Health and Medicine (RHM) Call for Special Issue Proposals: Rhetorics of Health Technologies RHM has been fortunate enough to publish one special issue each year. While we accept proposal...
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
We have a new interview out for RHM 7.4! Assistant Editor Amy Reed interviews Dr. Christa Teston and Addison Torrence about their article “Durability, Portability, and Responsivity in Rhetorics of Health and Medicine (RHM).” Full interview here: medicalrhetoric.com/author/admin/
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admin – Rhetoricians of Health and Medicine
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Hi #TeamRhetoric, Have a great project you're excited to send it out? Consider submitting to our journal! We publish all things medical rhetoric, including original research articles, dialogues, and more. See our submission checklist for additional info: journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/about/su...
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Submissions | Rhetoric of Health & Medicine
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Hi #TeamRhetoric, Join us for tomorrow’s ‘Third Thursdays’ chat at 2 p.m. ET! The topic is RHM pedagogy.
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Hi, everyone! We have a new issue out: RHM 8.1, “Keeping Care at the Core of RHM.” Read here: journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/vi...
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
#TeamRhetoric CFP alert! We are accepting proposals for our special issue on “Rhetorics of Health Technologies”. The deadline is Friday, April 4th. Check out the full CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Hi #TeamRhetoric, Join the first Third Thursdays meeting of the year! Tomorrow (2/20) from 2-3 ET. The topic is “Rhetorics of Care” and will feature a presentation from Drs. Christa Teston and Melissa Guadrón, followed by a Q&A and open conversation.
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
The 2025 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium will be held in Minneapolis, MN on October 17-18, 2025. Proposals are due April 15! Questions can be directed to: rhmsymposium@gmail.com. medicalrhetoric.com/symposium202...
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Call for Proposals – 2025 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium
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RHM Journal @rhmjournal.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Hi #TeamRhetoric We have a new issue out! RHM 7.4 includes topics like: a review of RHM research and its responsiveness, religion, identification and agency, air justice and health literacy, mental health rhetoric, and assisted suicide. Read here: journals.upress.ufl.edu/rhm/issue/vi...
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