Eva Surawy Stepney
@evasurawy.bsky.social
History of OCD, clinical psychology, concepts, methods, evidence.
Archive manager 4 @eshhs.bsky.social, Editor in Chief
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
Archive manager 4 @eshhs.bsky.social, Editor in Chief
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
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Not long left to apply to be an editor at the Polyphony!
Come and work with me! :D
November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Not long left to apply to be an editor at the Polyphony!
Some of my favourite people on a panel @ historical materialism @drrobertchapman.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Some of my favourite people on a panel @ historical materialism @drrobertchapman.bsky.social
Come and work with me! :D
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Come and work with me! :D
Reposted by Eva Surawy Stepney
I recently wrote a reflective piece for the Polyphony blog @the-polyphony.bsky.social explaining the motivations behind my work on ME, and what I think a medical humanities approach has to offer this field - and health research more generally
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
Privilege and Pain: Why the Medical Humanities Matter
Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.
thepolyphony.org
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I recently wrote a reflective piece for the Polyphony blog @the-polyphony.bsky.social explaining the motivations behind my work on ME, and what I think a medical humanities approach has to offer this field - and health research more generally
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
Reposted by Eva Surawy Stepney
Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
Privilege and Pain: Why the Medical Humanities Matter
Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.
thepolyphony.org
October 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
Reposted by Eva Surawy Stepney
This year, I've been lucky enough to work with @actionforme.bsky.social, as part of a collaboration between Action for ME and @durhamimh.bsky.social. (More on this soon!)
For now, this reflective post explains my motivations - and what I believe a collaborative, cross-sector approach can achieve.
For now, this reflective post explains my motivations - and what I believe a collaborative, cross-sector approach can achieve.
Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/09/p...
Privilege and Pain: Why the Medical Humanities Matter
Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.
thepolyphony.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
This year, I've been lucky enough to work with @actionforme.bsky.social, as part of a collaboration between Action for ME and @durhamimh.bsky.social. (More on this soon!)
For now, this reflective post explains my motivations - and what I believe a collaborative, cross-sector approach can achieve.
For now, this reflective post explains my motivations - and what I believe a collaborative, cross-sector approach can achieve.
Reposted by Eva Surawy Stepney
Employing Alison Kafer's 'crip time' as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/10/c...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/10/c...
Crip Time and the Recovery Paradigm: Clashes Between Institutional and Lived Temporality
Employing Alison Kafer’s concept of ‘crip time’ as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.
thepolyphony.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Employing Alison Kafer's 'crip time' as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/10/c...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/10/c...
Really enjoyed working with Yann on this, important and thoughtful reflections from clinical practice
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/02/n...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/02/n...
“Not Like Them”: Opacity, Disidentification, and the Queer Art of Refusal in the Therapeutic Encounter
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.
thepolyphony.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Really enjoyed working with Yann on this, important and thoughtful reflections from clinical practice
Reposted by Eva Surawy Stepney
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/02/n...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/02/n...
“Not Like Them”: Opacity, Disidentification, and the Queer Art of Refusal in the Therapeutic Encounter
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.
thepolyphony.org
October 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/02/n...
thepolyphony.org/2025/10/02/n...
Reposted by Eva Surawy Stepney
Queer science in action: “As Max put it, ‘Be open to surprises…biology will surprise you. Let the animals tell you something different about the world than what you thought.’ He was talking abt frogs, of course. But also abt the many, many other animals who don’t live quite the way we might expect.”
"A queer feminist approach ... would not frame chemically-poisoned frogs as pitiable freaks of nature, as well-intentioned scientific and media coverage tends to do."
The Queer Lives of Frogs
What frogs teach us about sex, science, and why biology is messier than we think.
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
September 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Queer science in action: “As Max put it, ‘Be open to surprises…biology will surprise you. Let the animals tell you something different about the world than what you thought.’ He was talking abt frogs, of course. But also abt the many, many other animals who don’t live quite the way we might expect.”
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I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
‘It’s a monster’: How generative AI is forcing university professors to rethink learning
As students turn to ChatGPT, educators warn that critical thinking, academic integrity and the future of the humanities are at stake
www.irishtimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I spoke to the Irish Times for this very good and rounded piece on the real-world effects of C***GPT in the humanities classroom: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Reposted by Eva Surawy Stepney
Really like Christina's interrogation of the terms "town hall" and "circus" in this piece on listening exercises and the question of who is able to speak / who can be heard #DisabilityMatters
Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters' upcoming 'Online Town Hall Circus' event which will take place on the 19th of September.
thepolyphony.org/2025/09/05/t...
thepolyphony.org/2025/09/05/t...
Transforming Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Through Disability
Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters’ upcoming ‘Online Town Hall Circus’ event which will take place on the 19th of September.
thepolyphony.org
September 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Really like Christina's interrogation of the terms "town hall" and "circus" in this piece on listening exercises and the question of who is able to speak / who can be heard #DisabilityMatters
Reposted by Eva Surawy Stepney
Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters' upcoming 'Online Town Hall Circus' event which will take place on the 19th of September.
thepolyphony.org/2025/09/05/t...
thepolyphony.org/2025/09/05/t...
Transforming Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Through Disability
Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters’ upcoming ‘Online Town Hall Circus’ event which will take place on the 19th of September.
thepolyphony.org
September 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters' upcoming 'Online Town Hall Circus' event which will take place on the 19th of September.
thepolyphony.org/2025/09/05/t...
thepolyphony.org/2025/09/05/t...
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Our research into historical #pandemics and literature has just been published on the medical humanities platform @the-polyphony.bsky.social - find it here ⬇️ #medhums #hstm #histsci #litsi
Members of the Media and Epidemics Research Network provide three vignettes illustrating the different ways 'Russian Flu' was reflected in media and literary culture.
thepolyphony.org/2025/09/01/m...
thepolyphony.org/2025/09/01/m...
Media and Epidemics: the 1890s ‘Russian Flu’ Epidemic
Members of the Media and Epidemics Research Network provide three vignettes illustrating the different ways ‘Russian Flu’ was reflected in media and literary culture.
thepolyphony.org
September 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Our research into historical #pandemics and literature has just been published on the medical humanities platform @the-polyphony.bsky.social - find it here ⬇️ #medhums #hstm #histsci #litsi
Reposted by Eva Surawy Stepney
Members of the Institute for Medical Humanities' Moving Bodies Lab reflect on a series of talks and workshops exploring what it means to be slow, still, and sedentary.
thepolyphony.org/2025/08/01/s...
thepolyphony.org/2025/08/01/s...
Slowing, Stillness and Sedentarism: Insights from a Cross-Disciplinary Moving Bodies Lab Workshop
Members of the Institute for Medical Humanities’ Moving Bodies Lab reflect on a series of talks and workshops exploring what it means to be slow, still, and sedentary.
thepolyphony.org
August 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Members of the Institute for Medical Humanities' Moving Bodies Lab reflect on a series of talks and workshops exploring what it means to be slow, still, and sedentary.
thepolyphony.org/2025/08/01/s...
thepolyphony.org/2025/08/01/s...
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Two weeks ago the Three Societies Meeting commenced at the American University Paris. It was filled with fascinating talks around the theme of Milieux and Places in the History of the Human Sciences.
Thank you to all who contributed to the success of the conference.
Hope to see you next year!
Thank you to all who contributed to the success of the conference.
Hope to see you next year!
July 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Two weeks ago the Three Societies Meeting commenced at the American University Paris. It was filled with fascinating talks around the theme of Milieux and Places in the History of the Human Sciences.
Thank you to all who contributed to the success of the conference.
Hope to see you next year!
Thank you to all who contributed to the success of the conference.
Hope to see you next year!
The 8th page of my dear friend's thesis
July 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The 8th page of my dear friend's thesis
Really important and thought-provoking piece
In this post Anna Dersken explores the differing ways Sweden has responded to its past of sterilisation and lobotomy, highlighting themes of medical ethics, responsibility, and injustice.
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/14/w...
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/14/w...
Who Gets an Apology? Sweden’s Reckoning with Medical Violence
In this post Anna Dersken explores the differing ways Sweden responded to its past of sterilisation and lobotomy, highlighting themes of medical ethics, responsibility, and injustice.
thepolyphony.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Really important and thought-provoking piece
Great to have the European Society for the History of Human Science on Bsky- give them a follow @eshhs.bsky.social ! Also pleased that I'm now the ESHHS archivist- I've previously written about the richness of their archive for the @the-polyphony.bsky.social: thepolyphony.org/2022/09/13/i...
‘It was like world politics but on a small scale’: The Early History of Cheiron-Europe
What are academic societies for? Intellectual exchange? Networking with like-minded scholars? Eva Surawy Stepney reflects on how the European Society for the History of Human Sciences forged connec…
thepolyphony.org
July 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Great to have the European Society for the History of Human Science on Bsky- give them a follow @eshhs.bsky.social ! Also pleased that I'm now the ESHHS archivist- I've previously written about the richness of their archive for the @the-polyphony.bsky.social: thepolyphony.org/2022/09/13/i...
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Sofia Wanström reflects on the epistemic injustice experienced by people with endometriosis related pain
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/09/n...
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/09/n...
It’s not normal to be in pain
Sofia Wanström reflects on the epistemic injustice experienced by people with endometriosis- related pain
thepolyphony.org
July 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Sofia Wanström reflects on the epistemic injustice experienced by people with endometriosis related pain
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/09/n...
thepolyphony.org/2025/07/09/n...
Talking about paradoxical responsibility at the three societies meeting in Paris!
July 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Talking about paradoxical responsibility at the three societies meeting in Paris!
Great to be at the European Society for the History of Human Science conf this year in a hot but beautiful Paris!
July 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Great to be at the European Society for the History of Human Science conf this year in a hot but beautiful Paris!