https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts daily 0.75 2025-11-15 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/alice-wong-suckitableism monthly 0.5 2025-11-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/4db0d49f-ad36-4ea2-86a1-d1763169c75c/Lehrer+portrait+of+Wong+Pressing+Matters+event.jpg & Other Thoughts - Alice Wong: #SuckItAbleism - Make it stand out Figure 1: Screen grab of zoom event featuring Alice Wong as part of the Pressing Matters series at Stony Brook in October 2021. On the zoom screen is Riva Lehrer’s Zoom Portraits: Alice Wong. 2020, graphite/colored pencil on paper, 21.25 × 17.25. To the right of Lehrer’s portrait of Wong is Alice Wong’s Disability Visibility avatar on a bright yellow background. Further to the right is a are zoom boxes with Lisa Diedrich in a Access is Love t-shirt, Alice Wong, and Karen Lloyd, who is asking Wong about her experience working with Lehrer on the portrait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/e1a6d047-9dde-455c-8bd6-5f9f14313916/lld+%2B+Alice+Wong+in+SF+IMG_5773.JPG & Other Thoughts - Alice Wong: #SuckItAbleism - Make it stand out Figure 2: Selfie of Lisa Diedrich and Alice Wong hanging out at a cafe in San Francisco in 2018 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/toward-an-ethics-of-failure monthly 0.5 2025-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/97f4257b-3d2e-4afa-814b-2b769ddce8c5/Rose+Love%27s+Work+Penguin+high+res+cover.jpg & Other Thoughts - Toward an Ethics of Failure - Gillian Rose’s Love’s Work [Penguin Modern Classics cover of Gillian Rose’s philosophical illness narrative, Love’s Work. The cover is a painting by Danish artist Carl Holsøe, The Artist’s House at Lyngby, showing a late 19th, early 20th century interior of a middle class house. An empty armchair and small table sit next to a window with white curtains and flowers on the window sill. The sun streams in, creating a reflection of the window frame on the floor and chair. This is a weird choice of an image for Rose’s work, if you ask me!!] https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/blog-post-title-four-lya26 monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/fe4b1d4a-f4d2-4a11-8cb2-2f9f8ac859a1/illness-politics-pre-order-discount-code.jpg & Other Thoughts - Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism My new book, Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism, is coming out in the spring from University of Minnesota Press. You can preorder it here and get 40% off the print edition using the code MN90850. It’s part of the Forerunners: Ideas First series, which publishes “short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead.” https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/blog-post-title-three-k3jfy monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/7c823fd3-ed94-4485-ab98-1d01aac2eb75/screenshot-2023-08-27-at-12.04.30-pm.png & Other Thoughts - Women’s football always on the verge To try to recap in a short blog piece all the twists and turns of this story is an impossible task. Suffice it to say, the Spanish Federation’s (RFEF) has showed the world the sexism and gaslighting the Spanish women players have been dealing with, and trying to change, for decades. After the final whistle blew, the RFEF president Luis Rubiales was filmed grabbing his crotch in a crude celebration, as the Spanish queen and her 16-year-old daughter stood nearby. In a filmed “apology,” Rubiales seems to me to be pleased with himself in a boys-will-be-boys way as he describes the gesture as “unfortunate” and “unedifying” and says, “I have to apologize to the royal family.” And, revealingly, he admits the gesture was a tribute to the Spanish team’s controversial manager Jorge Vilda. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/2384677d-9746-43cb-9643-bbb9597d648a/screenshot-2023-08-27-at-11.56.55-am.jpg & Other Thoughts - Women’s football always on the verge Jenni Hermoso is kissed by president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, after the Women’s World Cup Finals. Photo credits by Noe Llamas/SPP/Shutterstock https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/alisonbechdel-queerarchives monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/80769241-cb6c-41a9-9bcc-004be8d255a2/bechdel-essential-dtwof-p.-vii-detail.jpg & Other Thoughts - Alison Bechdel’s Queer Archives: Graphic Medicine 2023 - Make it stand out Fig. 1: Detail from Alison Bechdel’s The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), vii. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/2913a28a-2d16-49c0-86e9-afa0812922be/bechdel-essential-dtwof-p.-viii-detail.jpg & Other Thoughts - Alison Bechdel’s Queer Archives: Graphic Medicine 2023 - Fig. 2: Detail from Alison Bechdel’s The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), viii. I am fascinated by this image of Bechdel’s archives as well as by the invitation to enter the archives—that is, both her comics as an archive of queer life and her comics in the archives (through archival research on her papers at Smith College). What does this invitation and encounter have to do with graphic medicine, you ask? For one, the content of Bechdel’s work covers many topics for graphic medicine: OCD, AIDS, breast cancer, disability, and fitness cultures—all are taken up and archived in Bechdel’s work. Even more so, Bechdel demonstrates both drawing and archiving as forms of care and, together, as a kind of graphic medicine. Thus, my presentation is also an invitation to the Graphic Medicine community to consider its own practices of documenting through drawing, archiving, and drawing archiving. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/remembering-cyril monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/4a620249-cb6c-441a-a2e9-947778b71eb3/screenshot-2023-05-30-at-5.51.02-pm.png & Other Thoughts - Remembering Cyril - Make it stand out On the left: Cyril at Avalon sitting on a tree stump high off the ground with bright sun shining through the trees behind him. On the right, a rock cairn sits on a tree stump at Avalon, echoing Cyril’s pose, and placed as a memorial to him. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/c91135d4-edad-40f0-83ce-030b7e505b7e/screenshot-2023-07-01-at-7.58.51-pm.png & Other Thoughts - Remembering Cyril - Make it stand out On the left: Cyril at Avalon in 2012 after Hurricane Sandy had downed numerous trees. Cyril is lying on the end of a large uprooted tree that had fallen across the trail and been cut and cleared off the trail. The base of the tree remained in the ground and created a kind of runway up into the air that Cyril would jump on and climb up. He would then pose at the end, sometimes with his paws hanging over the edge, as he does here. He looks pensively to one side. On the right: the same spot 11 years later. The tree was cut again, making it more stumpy. The tree is disappearing back into the ground as it decomposes. Moss is growing on the uprooted soil behind the stump. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/emynh3cyh0m6xu7uaw3dd8uls0h1fu monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/illness-politics-mobilization-vulnerability monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/compassion monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/1748460168654-A4L5Z1PBLMKFIXQ597UK/1.png & Other Thoughts - Compassion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/1748460168729-1DADPLA2B1TQ5DJBY8U7/2.png & Other Thoughts - Compassion https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/1748460170184-XIFIIP0CGWD3WEZ05B0R/3.png & Other Thoughts - Compassion https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/ftew3t0d90pqqm9vegxs30sw3dd7ng monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/5uqdbls60p3sg4nnsuec96uns3617a monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/n29zkfp6z0h6b0btx4t56c0w0s2h72 monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/6ad21f3f-0afd-4608-a82f-1f59a84c382f/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+3.46.53%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Call for Proposals: Keywords & KeyImages in Graphic Medicine - Make it stand out Mirror keyimage collage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/cacfe588-c55d-4ac0-b585-15b2ace0245f/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+3.46.29%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Call for Proposals: Keywords & KeyImages in Graphic Medicine - Make it stand out Eyes keyimage collage https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/0lmsdtv5ani72179hacp7hae8829ak monthly 0.5 2025-07-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/a1813b3c-8a25-4dca-8b45-60d0b0988775/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+3.57.54%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Disregarding the Health of Others - Make it stand out Screngrab of CNN Coverage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/fecd53bb-cac2-4512-b377-927d1b13c35e/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+3.53.09%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Disregarding the Health of Others In her earlier essay on the cultural politics of illness, Sontag analyzed the phenomenon of illness as metaphor for individual and social weakness. Sontag’s short polemic chronicles a long history of the metaphorical uses of illness in literature, popular culture, and politics. Her motivation for writing Illness as Metaphor was not simply to explore a changing cultural and political landscape of illness. Instead, Sontag proposed to elucidate the uses of illness as metaphor with the goal of purifying the experience of illness of metaphorical thinking. For Sontag, this was the “most truthful way of regarding illness—and the healthiest way of being ill.” The act of regarding (showing interest, care, consideration, respect, and esteem), and the possibility of mis- or dis-regarding, links Sontag’s early work on illness with her later work on the pain and suffering of others. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/ghaa9kmrbfxxdusnb8esfyvl9sc4ey monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/4ff70d4b-e24d-4dd9-97f3-f2a80644ff99/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+4.05.25%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Keywords & Keyimages in Graphic Medicine - Make it stand out Tracing of mirror frame from Alison Bethel’s Are You My Mother? https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/how-to-have-pedagogy-in-a-pandemic-twitter-chat monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/7g28p04f8qizxmb0uehczcyqu57n4a monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/fafd72b4-8b69-48f9-af65-b76c93cf880c/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+4.18.34%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Figuring Out Your Own Healthcare: Mom’s Last Trip - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/f2d005ab-6684-4060-a54d-aa4db9929c5b/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+4.19.28%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Figuring Out Your Own Healthcare: Mom’s Last Trip - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/fb739aec-a50c-439f-8304-11c41da2bf5c/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+4.21.30%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Figuring Out Your Own Healthcare: Mom’s Last Trip - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/9h888b37p2julcxu3nktx6jr4og9jo monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/1748464198257-0HRXHVTLCG704E6LB06N/photo-exhibition-ob2290-lg.jpg & Other Thoughts - Drawing Queer Love: Illness Politics and Practices of Care in Graphic AIDS Narratives https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/1748464199005-SSWKW5CN9F1KLW0GQD0T/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+4.29.29%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Drawing Queer Love: Illness Politics and Practices of Care in Graphic AIDS Narratives https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/u9yah3a655k0zdcil1fxzw6l32xtnw monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/677821e7-5ff0-4969-93c3-19beb80766f3/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+11.17.09%E2%80%AFa.m..png & Other Thoughts - Illness (In)Action: Multiple Temporalities of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/7a66f8b2-7b24-4dc6-bedd-151262a1d625/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+11.17.33%E2%80%AFa.m..png & Other Thoughts - Illness (In)Action: Multiple Temporalities of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/gxyinbw7u4phwyeixvu3iyuut5xe4t monthly 0.5 2025-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/d4d88f40-441a-43f6-ae83-668b64a014b4/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+11.24.29%E2%80%AFa.m..png & Other Thoughts - Imagining Justice Alchemically: Articulating a Rhetoricity of Rights and Vulnerabilities - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/on-david-wojnarowicz-politics-and-gestures monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/17386154-0e38-4c4b-86bb-0ee2c445981c/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+11.28.56%E2%80%AFa.m..png & Other Thoughts - On David Wojnarowicz, politics, and gestures - Make it stand out In 1989 Felix Guattari contributed a foreword to a xeroxed catalog for a show of David Wojnarowicz’s In The Shadow of Forward Motion at the P.P.O.W. gallery in New York City. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/rzjt31ppok5s2geni8uc0i4om94h1a monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/6b618e6e-5330-4ddb-8e2a-f92579065399/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+11.42.05%E2%80%AFa.m..png & Other Thoughts - Graphic Trauma: Drawing as Working Through Sexual Violence - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/1561f059-3275-42cd-8497-89334a717e3f/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+11.42.21%E2%80%AFa.m..png & Other Thoughts - Graphic Trauma: Drawing as Working Through Sexual Violence - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/c5g1pyixue669dnb1mxoj4izgjhi89 monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/cff96473-416f-48fa-88d3-d971b6f3041a/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+11.52.28%E2%80%AFa.m..png & Other Thoughts - Monster en Abyme: Sympathy and Ill Feeling in Graphic Frankenstein Narratives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/9477b9e4-ef11-4962-a321-5d01f5cd5596/brookss-graphic-structure-of-frankenstein.png & Other Thoughts - Monster en Abyme: Sympathy and Ill Feeling in Graphic Frankenstein Narratives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/e43ebbbc-dea9-4e00-a66b-944948f2c9e0/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+11.53.10%E2%80%AFa.m..png & Other Thoughts - Monster en Abyme: Sympathy and Ill Feeling in Graphic Frankenstein Narratives - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/obaiea62kkm1fplf1lldq8ikr178lk monthly 0.5 2025-06-16 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/mc1x3ifabfhs50363mnl3l4rcknio5 monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/43264cf8-7e17-4da1-9606-4dae8841d4b1/Screenshot+2025-02-28+at+11.33.10%E2%80%AFa.m..png & Other Thoughts - Illness-Thought-Activism: A Conversation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/hsxj404whpdxta058f8d5skegqpktm monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/950cfc7e-6e57-4f5e-b5ef-31bf6fc055b6/stephanie-woodward-being-arrested.jpeg & Other Thoughts - Illness Politics: Independent Living VS. Personal Responsibility - Make it stand out Stephanie Woodward being arrested at Senator McConnell’s office https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/184bb073-ddf1-4c78-b501-556121495950/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+12.14.34%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Illness Politics: Independent Living VS. Personal Responsibility - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/77b53686-dfc2-4dbe-a992-2d6efec5bf2d/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+12.17.01%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Illness Politics: Independent Living VS. Personal Responsibility - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/mh88ccvcdcjesyfs09yr9uodzmzdjl monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/9a9f4577-10c1-40c0-9681-cc526e57f1a6/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+12.39.37%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Comics and Medicine 2017: Unpacking Building Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/f1e20595-8b29-49d2-be32-5ce2dc6ab19e/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+12.28.25%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Comics and Medicine 2017: Unpacking Building Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/ef827a3e-f0c1-481d-932a-add68f3b23b0/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+12.28.28%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Comics and Medicine 2017: Unpacking Building Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/c98fc0b1-cc0a-43e8-90c6-6455f01ea07b/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+12.28.40%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Comics and Medicine 2017: Unpacking Building Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/8ef88f07-9da0-4b46-ab40-3a5ba89fd851/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+12.32.02%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Comics and Medicine 2017: Unpacking Building Stories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/bihrbf09s1rgx056wzxw7mi5fsoua9 monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/41ea9b67-8492-455e-8353-f8dd1975ba5a/doctors-and-manuela-simulation-scene-aamm.jpg & Other Thoughts - Spaces of Creativity and/as Care in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar (SLSA 2016) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/0ece0a5f-3234-4613-ac8b-daf9e3042a62/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+12.54.27%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Spaces of Creativity and/as Care in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar (SLSA 2016) - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/jiq95bj610om4vl45mnn28d43ra2qc monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/8a99455c-b816-45b8-ba39-0929af510272/screen-shot-2016-10-02-at-3-52-02-pm.png & Other Thoughts - Illness as Metaphor, 2016 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/2a09519b-b971-4e6b-90c1-a404be01ed63/1136236.jpg & Other Thoughts - Illness as Metaphor, 2016 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/ab7b947a-f3eb-45ed-8333-477f09078e53/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+1.04.45%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Illness as Metaphor, 2016 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/1fcb5b47-ce59-4554-a73b-d91f7ccb8bb7/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+1.05.26%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Illness as Metaphor, 2016 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/dc2lbeyxle7b4j4903k8owynmc2u8p monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/75eacb7e-7576-4d63-8c90-bbe76eed0e95/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+1.22.58%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - 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Compassion: Keywords in Medical Humanities and Health Studies at MLA 2016 - Make it stand out Emergence of the use of “compassion fatigue” and “compassionate care”: circa 1980 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/2ad104d3-864b-47ad-a3b4-ccb54aace43e/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+1.46.00%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Compassion: Keywords in Medical Humanities and Health Studies at MLA 2016 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/e0e04a37-99e5-4b77-a7c5-b7f6f21fc04f/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+1.46.09%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Compassion: Keywords in Medical Humanities and Health Studies at MLA 2016 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/0985cdb6-ac1b-430b-88d9-0886b05eb855/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+1.46.14%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Compassion: Keywords in Medical Humanities and Health Studies at MLA 2016 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/xjvect47nad0xi09l1e4hm5k1hm3br monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/93fb05f4-bcc2-4a47-8d6a-b171496e1679/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+1.52.42%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Cinema and Precarity: Treatment, Risk, Trauma - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/7sjn7lqes4vw1sber1mzy8v0lzkym7 monthly 0.5 2025-06-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/60ae3cfb-e0a2-44fd-a5fe-48a32a699c2d/Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+1.56.10%E2%80%AFp.m..png & Other Thoughts - Comics and Medicine Conference: Spaces of Care - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Illness+Politics monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Graphic+Cultures monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Art monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Grief monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Keywords monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Conferences monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Soccer monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Webinar monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Pandemic monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Women%27s+Sports monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Medicine monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/COVID-19 monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Pedagogy monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Hashtag+Activism monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Alison+Bechdel monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Compassion monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Archives monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/thoughts/tag/Companion+Species monthly 0.5 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes daily 0.75 2026-01-15 https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/urvashi-vaids-vision-of-the-ongoingness-of-politics monthly 0.5 2026-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/4925b049-fdde-4b30-8589-143d7e5834e6/Vaid+Dream+of+a+Common+Movement.png Reading Notes - Urvashi Vaid’s vision of the ongoingness of politics - Make it stand out Image description: The Dream of a Common Movement: Selected Writings of Urvashi Vaid Edited by Jyotsna Vaid & Amy Hoffman Foreword by Tony Kushner Blurb from Rachel Maddow: "America's most talented & articulate exponent of LGBTQ+ rights & liberation." Picture of a smiling Vaid holding up a sign (photo is by Donna Aceto & title is Urvashi at Dyke March, 2011): The DYKE AGENDA with the top item MARRIAGE EQUALITY checked Followed by a long list of other items not checked: JOBS for ALL END VIOLENCE RACIAL JUSTICE IMMIGRATION RIGHTS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE END CORPORATE WELFARE PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP (nationally + globally) LET'S KEEP GOING! Since we seem to be regressing, this list is helpful for the present moment! https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/yard-work-in-kevin-adonis-brownes-a-sense-of-arrival monthly 0.5 2025-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/66d3a97e-5533-4dd5-8a54-d82091a9bfae/Browne+A+Sense+of+Arrival+cover.png Reading Notes - Yard work in Kevin Adonis Browne’s A Sense of Arrival - Kevin Adonis Browne’s A Sense of Arrival. Cover image is a self-portrait of the author entitled Self Invention; or, History of a Skin Wrapped in Brown Paper, No. 4 . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/23961336-7ba3-44fa-b8d7-98085fc1e4bc/Browne+A+Sense+of+Arrival+annotated+p.+324.png Reading Notes - Yard work in Kevin Adonis Browne’s A Sense of Arrival - Page 324 from Kevin Adonis Browne’s A Sense of Arrival The page has main text and footnotes. This reader has underlined and annotated the page with the note “Caribbeanness as yard.” https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/multimodal-derek-jarman monthly 0.5 2025-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/4d3251bf-0f69-4573-80e2-a1721563724a/Sooley+pic+Queer+Derek+Jarman+at+Manchester+City+Art+Gallery+1992.png Reading Notes - Multimodal Derek Jarman - Make it stand out Figure 1: Manchester City Art Gallery, Queer Derek Jarman banners, 1992; black and white photo by Howard Sooley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/4bd67e97-b4bd-4bb9-bc97-c3cd03a04f20/Derek+Jarman+Pocket+Park+at+MCG+Instagram+post.png Reading Notes - Multimodal Derek Jarman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/64cca3e1-21b9-4259-81d4-6bf7c31d00d8/Smiling+in+Slow+Motion+on+tray+table.png Reading Notes - Multimodal Derek Jarman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/58c9f112-ecb6-446a-be0b-d84df4280bb1/Jarman+drawing.png Reading Notes - Multimodal Derek Jarman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/2d2d9652-cb17-4a2d-9cb8-8ba1634cab83/Jarman+The+Garden+Screenshot+2025-06-06+at+2.52.55%E2%80%AFPM.png Reading Notes - Multimodal Derek Jarman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/c665e4c0-2c1e-4685-b289-920e2cdef3e3/Jarman+Blue+%5Bmusic%5D.png Reading Notes - Multimodal Derek Jarman - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/blog-post-title-one-k5czc monthly 0.5 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/1ddfd9fd-847b-4f0a-a1f4-72a2d1dfa6a9/torres-blackouts.jpeg Reading Notes - The Politics and Poetics of Citation Torres’s work felt to me like it continued many of the conversations we had had in our seminar about form, evidence, and “critical fabulation,” to use Saidiya Hartman’s term for her practice of troubling the line between history and imagination. And, indeed, Torres cites Hartman in his endnotes in reference to an “image of a woman with flowers,” a photograph of the actress Edna Thomas included in Blackouts. Torres writes, “For more about Edna Thomas, read Saidiya Hartman’s transcendent chapter on the actress in her book Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments. One of the sources Hartman draws upon is Edna’s testimony in the Sex Variants study, where she participated under the pseudonym Pearl M. It is Pearl’s story that was chosen to begin the second volume of the study, WOMEN” (287). Jeannette Foster’s Sex Variant Women in Literature from 1956 is one of the key historical sources around and through which Torres creates the “work of fiction” (295) that he insists, in “A Sort of Postface” at the very end of the book, Blackouts is, despite its reference to real historical figures and events. More on Blackouts to follow in a sort of postface to this Reading Notes blog, but first some thoughts on my seminar. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/blog-post-title-two-tp275 monthly 0.5 2025-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/fd408ec6-ff52-44cc-93d0-1d5454608979/gluck-about-ed-cover.jpg Reading Notes - Bob and Ed’s Tomb - Figure 1. We see this aesthetic of suppression of difference between figure and ground operating in the cover image (Figure 1). On the bottom half of the cover is a photo of the author and Aulerich-Sugai at a waterfall in Palenque, Mexico in 1974. The two men, both shirtless, are sitting on the edge of a pool of greenish-brown water at the bottom of the falls. Ed’s hair is wet, and Bob’s head is covered in a red bandanna. Bob looks to his right at Ed and Ed squints in the sun looking directly at the camera, smiling. They are slightly out of focus, while the water and rocks in the background are in clearer focus, confusing figure and ground, Ed and about Ed. The two men hover, white and ghostly, in the foreground of the photo. Ed is framed by a thick stream of water and mist from the falls directly behind him, creating a punctum of whiteness that, in the cover layout, gives an impression of a whiteness leaking into the picture from beyond the frame. In the distance, not immediately apparent as our eyes are drawn to the pair in the foreground of the photo, another man can be discerned. He is nude and standing in shallow water with his hands over his head as he leans against a large rock under a second, less powerful waterfall cascading down the rock to the left of the larger one directly behind Ed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/a6fcbf38-85fd-4694-83ba-d03fec57b197/richard-barnes-otto-eds-niche-600x337-1.jpg Reading Notes - Bob and Ed’s Tomb - Make it stand out Figure 2. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/ali-smith monthly 0.5 2025-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/64973ce1-d3ec-46ad-9c67-99b7268e1df1/screenshot-2023-07-07-at-1.22.49-pm.png Reading Notes - “Probably Filmic” - Ali Smith’s There but for the Posting more “reading notes” on here, as I search for a more hospitable social media space than twitter is now. As folks who follow me on twitter will know, I’m a big fan of Scottish queer writer Ali Smith. Last year, I re-read her seasonal quartet, and now I’m going back to re-read her earlier work. Here are a few re-reading notes (not comprehensive!) on Smith’s 2011 novel There but for the. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/9af320d1-2362-4195-b875-1bac8aaec403/screenshot-2023-07-07-at-1.26.06-pm.png Reading Notes - “Probably Filmic” - Ali Smith’s There but for the - Make it stand out Photo of a page from my notebook with a drawing of Ali Smith and some notes on There but for the, including “thereness: the condition of being there in position: presence in a place distinguishably there not here” and “Brooke 9 years old” “Obviously not ours.” (13) https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/drawing-en-abyme monthly 0.5 2025-07-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/1d6ea52f-3b47-4c5c-8bb5-94335f2ffa57/bechdel-secret-to-superhuman-strength-p.-172-detail.jpg Reading Notes - Drawing en Abyme - Make it stand out Screen grab of detail from p. 172 of Alison Bechdel, The Secret of Superhuman Strength (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021) https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/cultivating-attentiveness monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/e7e671eb-44c2-4b6a-8a2a-d40de108c3b9/screenshot-2023-03-16-at-1.20.47-pm.png Reading Notes - Cultivating Attentiveness As part of a faculty fellow program for innovative teaching at Stony Brook University, I will be embarking on a two-year project that I am calling “Multi-modal Pedagogies in Action.” Part of my plan for the fellowship period is to blog regularly on pedagogy in theory and practice. The fellowship doesn’t start until fall 2023, but I thought I’d point to what is to come with a Reading Notes blog on my recent reading of Jacques Rancière’s Ignorant Schoolmaster and re-reading of Lynda Barry’s Syllabus. As in my other posts of Reading Notes, I offer thoughts-in-process rather than a fully formed and definitive argument. Let me know what you think. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/783679dd-5df3-47e8-8826-7732217cbd8f/screenshot-2023-03-16-at-1.21.05-pm.png Reading Notes - Cultivating Attentiveness - Make it stand out Photo of an open grid-lined notebook with hand-written notes from Lynda Barry’s Syllabus with drawings intermingled. The drawings from top to bottom left to right are: spiral, octopus, child drawing, bank robber, car, bird, bat, a person’s head with glasses and short hair, a full-bodied Ivan Brunetti-esque person also with glasses and short hair. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/ableism monthly 0.5 2025-05-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/2622e42c-534c-4f20-9720-824cbbc09107/ableism-n-gram-screen-shot-2022-11-23-at-10.02.32-am.jpg Reading Notes - Ableism ( A brief history of the emergence of a term) - Make it stand out Google Books Ngram graph for the word ableism, showing the first appearance in a book in 1981 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/71291170-bf7a-4320-ada6-214b3f3d71c0/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+2.39.32%E2%80%AFp.m..png Reading Notes - Ableism ( A brief history of the emergence of a term) One other interesting detail from the definition in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary: in “Recent Examples on the Web” of uses of the word, five out of the eight examples are from articles published in the immediate aftermath of the John Fetterman-Mehmet Oz debate on October 25, 2022, in which Fetterman used closed-captioning to accommodate an auditory processing disorder following a stroke. I mention this because it shows that Fetterman’s Senate campaign following his stroke led to widespread conversations about what ableism is and how it structures social interactions. Disability activists and scholars had long used the term, but in 2022, forty years after the term first emerged, the use of ableism would become prominent in mainstream media coverage of Fetterman’s successful run for U.S. Senate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/b3a5566f-8131-40e9-87cf-292b6f21ef97/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+2.37.29%E2%80%AFp.m..png Reading Notes - Ableism ( A brief history of the emergence of a term) The word ableism appears in Duffy’s text in a chapter called “Womyn Loving Womyn (Lesbianism).” Duffy first discusses with her interviewees their attitudes toward and experiences of lesbian sex and sexuality. She then tells her reader that she revised her questionnaire to answer the specific questions “How do women treat other women? Are women more understanding of each other’s specific physical condition in sexual situations?” and distributed the new questionnaire at the Disabled Lesbian Conference held in August 1981, following the Michigan Women’s Music Festival (157). Two women responded—Jane, a 33-year-old art therapist from New York, and Ruth, a 35-year-old psychologist. As is the case throughout …all things are possible, Duffy also introduces Jane and Ruth by briefly describing their disabilities. Jane “has amyotonia congenita and uses a motorized wheelchair” (157) and Ruth has epilepsy, and Duffy adds that their experiences in the lesbian community have differed partly because Jane’s disability is visible, and thus often more stigmatizing than Ruth’s. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/illness-politics-practice-of-love monthly 0.5 2025-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/bc555133-f8ab-44e3-a1dd-46af668c652e/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+2.48.55%E2%80%AFp.m..png Reading Notes - Illness Politics as a Practice of Love Right now, I am reading Steven W. Thrasher’s The Viral Underclass, which I would describe as an articulation of illness politics as a practice of love. I use “articulation” in Stuart Hall’s double sense of the term: as both a form of expression where the form of expressing matters and as linkages between certain elements and conditions that are possible but not inevitable or essential. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/a6f4ba56-4ecf-4f18-bf18-b448a3e393d6/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+2.49.58%E2%80%AFp.m..png Reading Notes - Illness Politics as a Practice of Love - Photo courtesy of Guillermina Hernandez / Courtesy TransLatin@ Coalition. Thrasher shows how Borjas’s activist philosophy and practice was to show up for others and convince others to join her in showing up for others. Showing up for and with others sounds simple but is of course incredibly difficult to sustain. Yet, Borjas sustained this practice of love right up until she became sick with COVID in March 2020. Thrasher tells the heartbreaking story of her illness and death, noting “There was a sad irony at the end of her life. Lorena always showed up with people.” “But at the end of it all,” he continues, “except perhaps for the respiratory technician and nurses on duty as she drew her final breaths, Lorena Borjas was physically alone. [Her partner] Chaparro, [friend] Cecilia [Gentili], [fellow trans activists] Chase [Strangio], [Lynly] Egyes, all the thousands of people she’d given condoms and syringes and food to on Roosevelt Avenue—none of them could be with her to hold her hand in the final transitional moments of her earthly journey” (149). Many tributes followed Borjas’s untimely death at just 59, including from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who lauded Borjas as the “mother of the trans Latinx community in Queens” (149). Thrasher’s work also situates Borjas’s activism in Queens, while linking it beyond Queens in time and space in and through his book about The Viral Underclass. This is what I call #IllnessPolitics—a way of countering what Thrasher calls “viral vulnerability” through transhistorical and transnational connections between multimodal forms of activism and movements. https://www.lisadiedrich.org/reading-notes/0r2m640wnzo60mk52qzdugttxarmx7 monthly 0.5 2025-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/089b451d-2f4c-45f0-b0ed-1f241f5ede2a/screenshot-2023-01-22-at-5.15.17-pm.png Reading Notes - Learning to Listen - Make it stand out Front and back cover of Amina Cain’s A Horse at Night: On Writing. Art on the cover: a painting by Augustus Leopold Egg, The Traveling Companion, 1862. Cain describes “an almost perfect symmetry between” the two girls “who look like sisters” in the painting. “One girl sleeps while the other reads,” Cain writes. “Each is resting in her own way. All of us need this kind of rest” (89). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/c029b4aa-6a1a-4474-bef7-f66f49b1e7a8/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+3.03.58%E2%80%AFp.m..png Reading Notes - Learning to Listen - Make it stand out The new edition of SCENES OF SUBJECTION includes notations that Hartman created with Cameron Rowland, including this one titled “Black Antagonism” “in homage to the sweetgrass basket makers of Edisto Island & what they are owed.” Image description: A black ink spiral bisected by a horizontal line on a gray white woven basket background. The title BLACK ANTAGONISM is at the top & the word PRACTICE is on the left at the opening of the spiral & the words GATHERING (above the line) & CRIMINALITY (below) are on the right. Notations from the text are contained in the spiral. At the center of the spiral/basket is the word Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/679bcbd5c9e4d951954413c4/f339eda9-7bb5-44eb-9dc6-a8d5a15abb87/Screenshot+2025-05-28+at+3.04.21%E2%80%AFp.m..png Reading Notes - Learning to Listen What have I been reading? Right now, I have two books on the go—one long, one short. That’s not quite right because I started and finished the short book—Amina Cain’s A Horse at Night: On Writing—in a single day—yesterday. Thus, I read a whole other book while reading the long one—Ruth Ozeki’s Book of Form and Emptiness. Starting and finishing a book while reading another book is not unusual; reading happens in multiple temporalities and spaces. Some books are gobbled up and others are savored slowly and still others are struggled with or put aside and returned to (or sometimes never returned to). Ozeki’s book is a book about the agency of things, including books, and there are books within the book that is The Book of Form and Emptiness. So, it feels right that I read a small book about reading and writing while reading a big book about a book becoming a book. In a section on how and when plants appear in fiction, Cain discusses Amanda Ackerman’s The Book of Feral Flora as not simply about plants but as including pieces “written by plants” (112). Cain writes that “the flowers in the book call out to other flowers, repeating their names, making contact, one to the other. Ackerman calls out to them too” (112). This echoes Ozeki’s story of a book being told from the perspective of the book itself as an object with agency to think and feel. Both texts—one thin and one thick—present practices of writing and reading as a kind of attentiveness to objects—that is, writing and reading as forms of listening. As Benny, the protagonist in Book of Form and Emptiness says, “Things speak all the time, but if your ears aren’t attuned, you have to learn to listen” (3). 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