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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.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1h
I’ve seen advice on here that you should pretend you’re a rock.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1h
I’ve been thinking about Alice today b/c she loved food & was a talented food writer, even as her eating became increasingly restricted. I love her piece in Year of the Tiger in which she interviews her mom about Lunar New Year & making dumplings. She & her mom agree: love is expressed through food.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1h
Cokley also mentions attacks on Alice after she won a MacArthur: “Despite being a tremendous honor, the fellowship inspired a fresh wave of online attacks against Alice, particularly for her support of Gaza. But never once did she waiver. If anything, she did as she was prone to do & doubled down.”

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1h
Moving tribute to Alice Wong from Rebecca Cokley: “Alice was constantly watching what people were doing, & lifting up people whose work she thought deserved attention & amplification. This was core to the creation of the Disability Visibility Project.”
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
A Tribute to an Oracle, Alice Wong
Alice had the ability to look to the future and a world where laws and attitudes did not keep disabled people poor, pitied, and isolated.
www.thenation.com

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 6h
Grateful for this spludge.
Brown, black, & white tuxedo tabby cat lounging in the sun on an orange couch with her front paws hanging over the edge. She looks very self satisfied but might still tell the photographer off for trying to capture the moment.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 9h
💯 I am a big fan of UK sandwiches + crisps for a train journey, etc. I like it that they're smaller compared to US monster deli sandwiches, but also imho the bread and filling are much better quality (no added sugar, for one).

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18h
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."

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18h
How about not yet published but coming soon (in early 2026)?! @briwok.bsky.social & my edited collection Keywords/Keyimages in Graphic Medicine.
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. 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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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h
it is very strange to me that Americans just cannot do packaged, relatively cheap sandwiches. they're fucking awful here. (handmade sandwiches are often great, but, like, the £2.75 Tesco's 'good but not great' sandwich is a missing piece)
daveon.bsky.social DaveO @daveon.bsky.social · 19h
It is a huge problem to me that sandwiches in the US are both delicious and stupidly expensive.

There are days I miss a prawn mayo or tuna sandwich meal deal from Boots or WH Smith.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 20h
ACT UP. Fight back!
Thank you for your work.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 23h
The death toll is rising & hundreds of people are missing. Absolutely heartbreaking.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
Yes! Well said.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
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

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
Paging Dr. Freud.
maxkennerly.bsky.social Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
Be sure to read the alt text...

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
Can't stop laughing at "mesopotamia shoe wearing ass": chef's kiss insult for a pompous twit.
dieworkwear.bsky.social 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.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
Right. I've been thinking, in psychoanalytic terms, it's a deeply regressive form of object relating.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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...
mitsuhiko.at Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 3d
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 1d
Oh. Looking forward to Josh Johnson’s send up of the Mamdani-Trump ridiculous theatre.

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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.

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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.
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee 52A @ MICE @alexandragallant.com · 2d
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 · 1d
I believe the exactness of the $207bn is supposed to build trust & comfort you...

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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.
bsky.app/profile/lisa...
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."