On Illness Narratives, Ongoingness, and Unrecovery University of Southern Mississippi Center for Ethics and Health Humanities March 24th 2025 Foreword Below follows the text of a lecture I wrote and gave online last March. I had hoped to get a chance to write more in the months that followed about the dangers of the suddenContinue reading ““Promoting Chronicity”:”
Tag Archives: Disability
Birds of Lakeland/Birds of Lockdown
In Summer 2020 Will and I were commissioned by Aerial festival to make a podcast based on our very local walks during the first UK lockdown for their Sounds of Silence feature of the online version of the festival. The podcast blends bird song we recorded on our walks with reflections on the current situation,Continue reading “Birds of Lakeland/Birds of Lockdown”
Plague Year Season Two Review
Dear reader, I cannot lie to you. This last two years have been trying. At this point in 2020 I couldn’t face looking back at the year. I suppose that I am writing this now proves the point I make so often about adjusting to chronic illness: it’s continually surprising the amount of daily painContinue reading “Plague Year Season Two Review”
Shadow Dispatches 