Lisa Diedrich

@lisadiedrich.bsky.social

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Coming in early 2026: KEYWORDS/KEYIMAGES IN GRAPHIC MEDICINE
Current projects: #IllnessPolitics, chronic forms, & multi-modal pedagogies in action. Author of ILLNESS POLITICS & HASHTAG ACTIVISM, TREATMENTS, & INDIRECT ACTION.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Oct 4

Look at this gorgeous cover for Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine!! Thanks to Ian Williams for giving us permission to use his image on the cover, which captures brilliantly the concept & structure of the book. Briana Martino (@briwok.bsky.social) & I are grateful & thrilled!
#GraphicMedicine

Book cover for Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine edited by Lisa Diedrich and Briana Martino. The image on the cover is from Ian Williams, & is a version of an image from his book The Bad Doctor, a graphic narrative based on his own experience with OCD. A boy is in bed with his hands folded in prayer & his thoughts take the form of a sefirot surrounding his head.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 7h

BBC reporting: "Two directors & a consultant of a construction company were arrested by police for being 'grossly negligent.' The complex was undergoing extensive renovations when the fire began."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h

How about not yet published but coming soon (in early 2026)?! @briwok.bsky.social & my edited collection Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 9h

ACT UP. Fight back!
Thank you for your work.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 12h

The death toll is rising & hundreds of people are missing. Absolutely heartbreaking.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 14h

Horrifying echoes of the Grenfell Tower fire where cheaper construction materials (in this case bamboo scaffolding) appear to have contributed to the fire’s intensity & spread.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Bamboo scaffolding may be to blame for spread of Hong Kong tower block fire

Hong Kong is one of the last places in the world where bamboo is widely used by construction workers

www.theguardian.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 14h

Yes! Well said.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 14h

I have said this before, but I really think Tressie McMillan Cottom is like Stuart Hall in her ability to diagnose the culture & politics of the present. No one else articulates (as in Hall’s use of the term: as form of expression & making connections) politics as a practice, aesthetics, & feeling.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

Thankful this week for those many queer people who came before me, people whose voices — quiet, loud, loving, angry — have taught me so much about how to live my values in this era.

Chris in sunglasses and a SILENCE = DEATH T-shirt

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 16h

Bingo. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on MTG: "what’s currently shaping her political fortunes can be explained...by Feminism 101...Trump governs much like he once ran his beauty pageants. Women decorate his atmosphere. They must not challenge him for leadership of it."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/o...

Opinion | Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light?

www.nytimes.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18h

Paging Dr. Freud.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20h

So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20h

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 20h

Be sure to read the alt text...

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 20h

Can't stop laughing at "mesopotamia shoe wearing ass": chef's kiss insult for a pompous twit.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

United States Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is seen wearing a blue suit, white shirt, and tan shoes. He's shaking hands with someone in a black outfit.

A close up of his shoes show weird stitching on the side. They look like they're the first shoes ever made in history.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 22h

Right. I've been thinking, in psychoanalytic terms, it's a deeply regressive form of object relating.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 22h

This is the cult-ish aspect of AI boosterism: folks not on board with the hype must be made to see the light. That insecurity about criticism of AI gives the game away.

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John F Wu @jwuphysics.bsky.social · 22h

Wow 80% bad-faith responses, and people lecturing the creator of Flask here and the creator of Django/datasette in the comments on why AI is useless for software engineering...

Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 2d

Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Oh. Looking forward to Josh Johnson’s send up of the Mamdani-Trump ridiculous theatre.

Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 1d

👀

Mamdani Makes Trump Melt

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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Reposted by Lisa Diedrich, Catherine J. Frieman

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport

Reposted by Lisa Diedrich

Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 1d

👀

Mamdani Makes Trump Melt

YouTube video by Josh Johnson

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Clearly Scientific American is doing a lot of outsourcing on that post & article. That picture is so weird.

Alexandra Gallant-Lee 52A @ MICE @alexandragallant.com · 1d

I don't even want to link to this, but the author of the article also wrote a novel about how 'ai will transform humanity' lol.

Almost every assumption the article makes is something that should be challenged immediately. "AI is starting to sound like another kitchen appliance" NO IT ISN'T.

Screenshot of a post by Scientific American

@sclam.bsky.social As Al slips into kitchens, conversations and memories, Thanksgiving
has become a test of how much we're willing to outsource
Is This Our First Al Thanksgiving? As Al slips into kitchens, conversations and memories, Thanksgiving has become a test
of how much we're willing to outsource
@ www.scientificamerican.com

(Accompanying image is a bunch of people with overly smiling faces, possibly an AI image, it looks too shiny, but maybe it's real, doubtful given the premise of the piece, though)

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

I believe the exactness of the $207bn is supposed to build trust & comfort you...

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting my earlier thread on Nuzzi's piece on Biden's decline, which was illness politics pretending to be objective journalism.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Oct 19

I did not read Olivia Nuzzi's piece "This Old Man" published in the July 14-28, 2024 issue of NY Mag when it came out. Reading it now is eye-opening to say the least. The subheading: "A Conspiracy of Silence. The president's mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

And this is also excellent from @gavinyamey.bsky.social: “He’s one of the world’s most dangerous anti-vaccine activists and conspiracy theorists, and she made light of that and really downplayed it and defanged his extreme views...She allowed him to argue that he’d just simply been misunderstood.”

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

You love to see @disabilitystor1.bsky.social quoted: “All I think about is how this woman was part of mainstreaming this guy...[RFK Jr.] will do profound damage on a global scale—that’s all that matters."

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

This is exactly right: "The only thing you need to know about Olivia Nuzzi is that she used her position of power, as a journalist, to advise & elevate the world’s most prominent anti-vaccine activist to the most influential health position in the United States." #IllnessPolitics

Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

Olivia Nuzzi wrote an entire story based on unnamed sources about Biden's decline, reinvigorating calls for him to leave the race -- and the whole time, she was working on RFK Jr.'s behalf, according to her ex-fiance. newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims

More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.

newrepublic.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting my He Kills Me thread.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · Feb 15

He Kills Me. Donald Moffett. 1987.
ACT UP. Fight Back. Fight AIDS.

We need new versions of this poster--with RFK Jr., Trump, & Musk replacing Reagan.

#IllnessPolitics

Donald Moffet describes the poster & how it came about & circulated (recording on the MoMA site https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/298/4542: "This is the He Kills Me poster, as it’s referred to, which has a picture of Ronald Reagan with a particular smirk on his face. It’s two very, very discrete visuals. On the left is a fluorescent orange and black shooting target, and on the right is a black and white image of Reagan with the copy line, 'he kills me.' You know, it was about Reagan’s lack of concern, lack of engagement.
I was probably working on it in ‘86. At this point, I was involved in a graphic design studio, and I wasn’t very happy, shit was going down. It was right about the same time where people were just dying, on the one hand, and those that weren’t felt incredibly frustrated and angry. There was this moment where A led to B, and in my after hours, I started making He Kills Me and some street activism.
My good friend Michael Moran and I, we pasted it at night. That was the means of distribution until it was given to ACT UP where then it became a protest tool. ACT UP stands for the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. It was an explosive street movement, basically to protest the lack of information, response, drugs, progress on a deadly disease that was extremely targeted at that point.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing reporting that the Trump admin will not commemorate World AIDS Day (Dec 1) this year. People are again dying from government neglect, stigma, & discrimination. It’s time to:
ACT UP.
Fight Back.
Fight AIDS.

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

ACT UP London is planning a die-in on World AIDS Day. Dan Glass: “We thought die-ins were history…We thought that era when people died waiting for justice was over…We’re living under a weak-willed ‘Labour-tory’ government that has gutted the HIV voluntary sector.”

www.attitude.co.uk/news/hiv-awa...

ACT UP London to stage die-in mass protest at Trafalgar Square over UK HIV funding cuts

ACT UP London has organised a mass protest against the government’s cuts to HIV/AIDS aid and support this World AIDS Day.

www.attitude.co.uk

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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims

More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.

newrepublic.com

Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d

Zohran is picking all the best people.

Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 2d

Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.

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