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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 1d

Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.

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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.

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Katharine Cheston @kacheston.bsky.social · 1d

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.

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 1d

Katharine Cheston reflects on her own experience of ME and the need for a more caring, curious, and compassionate approach to health research.

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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.

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 21h

Employing Alison Kafer's 'crip time' as a mode of writing, Ayeong unravels the recovery paradigm and its institutional salience.

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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.

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · 8d

Really enjoyed working with Yann on this, important and thoughtful reflections from clinical practice

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 8d

Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.

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“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.

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · 8d

Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.

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.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 28d

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.”

MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 29d

"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.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

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Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Sep 5

Christina Lee introduces the context behind Disability Matters' upcoming 'Online Town Hall Circus' event which will take place on the 19th of September.

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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.

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Sep 5

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...

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.

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Media and Epidemics @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Sep 1

Members of the Media and Epidemics Research Network provide three vignettes illustrating the different ways 'Russian Flu' was reflected in media and literary culture.

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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.

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Aug 1

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.

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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.

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 25

!!!!! www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/f...

Bill Cashmore · Future Skills?: On the planned closure of the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston (2025)

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 21

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European Society for the History of the Human Sciences @eshhs.bsky.social · Jul 15

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!

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 15

The 8th page of my dear friend's thesis

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 14

Really important and thought-provoking piece

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Jul 14

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.

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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.

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 13

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…

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Jul 9

Sofia Wanström reflects on the epistemic injustice experienced by people with endometriosis related pain

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It’s not normal to be in pain

Sofia Wanström reflects on the epistemic injustice experienced by people with endometriosis- related pain

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 8

Talking about paradoxical responsibility at the three societies meeting in Paris!

Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 2

Great to be at the European Society for the History of Human Science conf this year in a hot but beautiful Paris!

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thanks so much David!

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 2

Beautiful reflections!

The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Jul 2

David Woodhead reflects on the memories, legacies, and queer histories provoked by viewing- gazing upon- the AIDS memorial quilt in 1994 and in June this year.

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Looking Again: The Quilt, the Gaze, and Queer Remembering

David Woodhead reflects on the memories, legacies, and queer histories provoked by viewing- gazing upon- the AIDS memorial quilt in 1994 and in June this year.

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thank you! Means a lot. Hope you're well 💓

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Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Jul 1

Written and accepted in 2023/4

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The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Jun 30

On Day 6 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies takeover @tasha-tasha.bsky.social calls for literary scholars within Mad Studies & Neurodiversity Studies to engage with one another, exploring the possibilities of and justifications for a ‘Mad[]Neurodiverse’ literary analysis.
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On Mad[]Neurodiverse Literary Possibilities

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…

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