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Eva Surawy Stepney
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History of OCD, clinical psychology, concepts, methods, evidence.
Archive manager 4 @eshhs.bsky.social‬, Editor in Chief
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"When anti-stigma campaigns shift away from acting on the wider determinants of health [..] they tend to [..] reproduce inequalities."

#RecalibratingStigma

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Tanisha Spratt

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December 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Lastly Caroline Law and @harrietcooper.bsky.social pull together their respective analyses of male infertility and parenting disabled children to consider how stigma is involved in shaping and maintaining reproductive norms and idealised notions of family. 4/5

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Reproductive norms: stigma and disruptions in family-building
In the final of our ‘Recalibrating Stigma’ mini-takeover, Caroline Law and Harriet Cooper explores how stigma operates in relation to reproductive norms.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Thanks @the-polyphony.bsky.social for sharing your platform with us to give people a sense of what's in the new edited collection 'Recalibrating Stigma: sociologies of health and illness' Available as a free e-book or relatively inexpensive paperback 5/5

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Recalibrating Stigma
Recalibrating Stigma - Sociologies of Health and Illness; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Featuring original analyses from emerging leaders in medical sociology, this book r...
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December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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2 years ago @the-polyphony.bsky.social kindly invited me @gmthomas.bsky.social @amychandler.bsky.social & Tanisha to write about the book we were putting together on stigma (see ⬇️). Now it's out @brisunipress.bsky.social they've let us do a mini-takeover! 1/5

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Recalibrating Stigma
Gareth Thomas, Tanisha Spratt, Oli Williams, and Amy Chandler reflect on the 2023 symposium: Recalibrating Stigma, Sociological Perspectives on Health and Illness.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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In the first of our 'Recalibrating Stigma' mini-takeover, Oli Williams, Gareth M. Thomas, Amy Chandler, and Tanisha Spratt introduce the concept of anti-stigma.

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What’s wrong with anti-stigma?
In the first of our ‘Recalibrating Stigma’ mini-takeover, Oli Williams, Gareth M. Thomas, Amy Chandler, and Tanisha Spratt introduce the concept of anti-stigma.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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On World AIDS Day, reposting this piece on David Wojnarowicz, politics, & gestures that draws on one of my snapshots of illness-thought-activism in time in my book Indirect Action.
#IllnessPolitics

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On David Wojnarowicz, politics, and gestures — Lisa Diedrich
This is the final weekend for the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art of the work of David Wojnarowicz, “History Keeps Me Awake at Night.” I can’t recommend the show enough, especi...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Órla Meadhbh Murray introduces the Gut Feelings course: a space for people to narrate, explore, and challenge their experience of gut symptoms.

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Gut Feelings: Challenging Crip Gut Stigma
Órla Meadhbh Murray introduces the Gut Feelings course: a space for people to narrate, explore, and challenge their experience of gut symptoms.
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December 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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David Woodhead reflects on being gay and getting older.

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Am I queer enough? When theory and lived experience collide
David Woodhead reflects on being gay and getting older.
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November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Not long left to apply to be an editor at the Polyphony!
evasurawy.bsky.social Eva Surawy Stepney @evasurawy.bsky.social · Oct 27
Come and work with me! :D
the-polyphony.bsky.social The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social · Oct 27
We're hiring 3 new editors! 2 general and 1 for reviews!

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November 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Some of my favourite people on a panel @ historical materialism @drrobertchapman.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Come and work with me! :D
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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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

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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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October 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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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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October 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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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.
October 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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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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October 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Really enjoyed working with Yann on this, important and thoughtful reflections from clinical practice
October 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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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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October 2, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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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.”
mitpress.bsky.social MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · Sep 11
"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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September 12, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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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
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September 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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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
September 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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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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September 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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
September 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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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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August 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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!!!!! 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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July 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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July 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM