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Lisa Diedrich
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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.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 5h
Oh. Looking forward to Josh Johnson’s send up of the Mamdani-Trump ridiculous theatre.

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 5h
👀
Mamdani Makes Trump Melt
YouTube video by Josh Johnson
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 7h
Clearly Scientific American is doing a lot of outsourcing on that post & article. That picture is so weird.
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee 52A @ MICE @alexandragallant.com · 14h
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)

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h
I believe the exactness of the $207bn is supposed to build trust & comfort you...

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h
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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lisadiedrich.bsky.social 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."

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h
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.”

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h
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."

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h
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
melodyschreiber.com Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 12h
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

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h
Reposting my He Kills Me thread.

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lisadiedrich.bsky.social 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.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h
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.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8h
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 · 12h
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

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 12h
Zohran is picking all the best people.
alondra.bsky.social Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
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.
www.cbsnews.com

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Alexandra Gallant-Lee 52A @ MICE @alexandragallant.com · 14h
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)

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 19h
Bluesky still saying the Guardian's investigation into the Free Birth Society & link to stillbirths is "adult content."
Platform of the absurd.
lisadiedrich.bsky.social Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d
"Nearly 1K students have graduated from the Radical Birth Keeper school, which charged $6K for a 3-month Zoom course for 'authentic midwives,' & the MatriBirth Midwifery Institute (MMI), a $12K, year-long 'gold-standard online intensive midwifery school.'" www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Five key findings from our investigation into the Free Birth Society
Year-long investigation into multimillion-dollar business exposed serious concerns, from dangerous medical claims to FBS-linked stillbirths
www.theguardian.com

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 19h
Woohoo! Very exciting news.
(I like the title, btw.)

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 19h
Follow up to the Guardian's earlier report on the Free Birth Society. "The prevalence of freebirthing is low in the UK, but is believed to be on the rise, fuelled in part by distrust of maternity services & fears of an overly medicalised approach to birth."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS directed pregnant women to controversial Free Birth Society via charity
Exclusive: NHS websites pointed women to factsheet featuring podcast by ‘dangerous’ influencers linked to baby deaths
www.theguardian.com

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 19h
I received the reader reports back for my book manuscript. Thank you (you know who you are) for the most generous, supportive, & helpful comments!

I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 19h
Very grim, but I’m also like, there’s a class where students are attending plays every night & the prof is changing the endings, what is that?! (sorry, couldn’t read the article)

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Ina Hallström @killedbyproxy.bsky.social · 20h
It's cool that we can conduct these population cohort studies using Swedish register data.

Less than 1% (21 out of 2467) underwent a legal gender reversal following a legal gender change.

"These results highlight that legal gender reversal was an infrequent occurrence in a national sample."
Stability After Legal Gender Change Among Adults With Gender Dysphoria
This cohort study identifies the probability of obtaining an initial legal gender change and its stability (ie, absence of legal gender reversal) in a recent cohort of people diagnosed with gender dys...
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 20h
One of Rutger Bregman’s Reith lectures is called “A Time of Monsters,” which would seem to capture the moment we are living through accurately, including the aggressively regressive attacks on speech critical of the monsters.
rutgerbregman.com Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 9d
Great to see that the White House and the Daily Mail are as excited by the upcoming publication of my BBC Reith Lectures as I am!

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 21h
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
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.
www.cbsnews.com

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
Maxwell Taylor Kennedy doesn't hold back. She avers that her father, Robert F. Kennedy, "would have been appalled by the cruelty the Trump admin has directed toward America’s neediest." She details how eye-opening a trip thru the south in 1967 was for her father.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/21/o...
My brother RFK Jr. is betraying our father’s legacy - The Boston Globe
Robert F. Kennedy would have turned 100 this week — and he would have been appalled at the Trump administration’s cruelty.
www.bostonglobe.com

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
The own goals keep coming as supposedly liberal governments & university admins pander to anti-immigrant & anti-intellectual sentiments.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 2d
A 6% levy on international student fees was proposed in the Immigration White Paper. The impact is about £600 million, though very unevenly spread across institutions.
sgfmann.bsky.social George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 2d
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d
Although I wasn't presenting on Alice's work, she was on of course on my mind & thus I highlighted her chapter "About Time" from Year of the Tiger as articulating the concept & practice of ongoingness as a chronic form.
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Alice Wong: #SuckItAbleism — Lisa Diedrich
Alice Wong was an incomparable force for disability justice and community, and the heartfelt outpouring of love and appreciation for her and her work on social media today shows the profound personal ...
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d
Solidarity.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d
"...in which an Army Specialist named William D. Mellin explained that computers cannot think for themselves, & that 'sloppily programmed' inputs inevitably lead to incorrect outputs."

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d
I was wondering when/where the phrase "garbage in, garbage out" first emerged. According to Wikipedia, GIGO was first used "in a 1957 syndicated newspaper article about US Army mathematicians & their work with early computers,..."
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Garbage in, garbage out - Wikipedia
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2d
As a former bookseller turned academic, I wouldn't say I have too many books, just too few shelves...
jowolff.bsky.social Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 2d
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.