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Home / Latest / This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/15 – 3/22/19)

This Week in Graphic Medicine (3/15 – 3/22/19)

Mar. 22, 2019 by Matthew Noe

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This Week in Graphic Medicine in a Stranger Things Stylized Font
‘This Week in Graphic Medicine’ highlights relevant articles (and tweets) about comics in medicine published during the week (Saturday – Friday). Links are typically presented without commentary, unless clarification of relevance is necessary, with credit given to those who flagged them up where possible. So without further ado…


Matthew’s Pick of the Week…

This week, a turn toward the less explicitly medical for my picks – two webcomics that deal with different aspects of sexism. One is actually a couple of years old but recently made the rounds again – and speaks to me a great deal – is by Luke Humphris: What Do We Mean When We Say “Toxic Masculinity?”. This is an example of how social and cultural norms impact medicine – if men are expected to be tough and strong, then they are less likely to seek out appropriate care, especially for mental health, and this leads to not only harm for individuals but for those around those individuals as well.

This leads to the second comic, published today, also in The Nib, by Aubrey Hirsch: Taking Back the Streets. Street harassment is not only rude – and dangerous – but traumatizing and is more common than anyone wants to admit. As Aubrey’s comic discusses, there are short and long-term health impacts of this – directly in trauma and PTSD, and indirectly in increased stress, changes in behavior to avoid being in public, and far more.

I wanted to share these two examples this week, because they are important, but also because of ongoing discussions – such as this one – about the scope of graphic medicine. As I mentioned there, it is perhaps less productive to frame the field as “this is definitely graphic medicine” and rather focus on how something might BE graphic medicine depending on the way in which you are viewing, discussing, creating it. This is, of course, not terribly helpful for collection development decisions, but perhaps can help in these dangerously close to line-drawing discussions.


Conference News

Queerying Graphic Medicine – Paradigms, Power and Practices – 11-13 July 2019 is getting closer! As promised in an email last week to folks proposing presentations, you should be seeing news of your proposal’s status either already or in the coming days. Exciting!

Even more exciting perhaps is that I am happy to share that registration for the conference is now open! You can find more information and register at this link! Pricing below:

Prices:

Early Bird Registration – £100 (available until 1st June 2019)

Full Price Registration – £125 (from 2nd June 2019)

Student Registration – £60

For further information please visit the website: https://www.graphicmedicine.org/comics-and-medicine-conferences/brighton-2019


Articles & More… 

Kickstarter: Love on the Isle of Dogs – a graphic novel

Event: New England Graphic Medicine ComicCon

Event: “Cripping” the Comic Con 2019

Event: Graphic Brighton 2019 Dates Announced

Event: Dana Hosts Graphic Medicine Event

Event: Drawing Blood: Comics and Medicine Exhibit

Event: Graphic Medicine with Kriota Willberg

Webcomic: Tubes via @MatildaTris

Webcomic: ‘The Diagnosis’ shares one family’s experience with Down syndrome

Webcomic: Sick? via @Northern_Thirty

Webcomic: Trying to Turn a Brain Tumor Into Something Useful

Webcomic: Eight Years of Unrest in Syria via @TheNib

Webcomic: It’s All in the Family via @TheNib

Webcomic: Miscarried, The Comic via @cpere [from 2017, shared on FB by Brian Fies]

Webcomic: ‘Endometriosis is so much worse than a bad period’

Webcomic (Scholarly): Annals Graphic Medicine – Progress Notes: Soapcalls

Scholarly: Effect of theory-based contraception comics on subjective contraceptive knowledge: a pilot study

Scholarly: Re-negotiating agency – patients using comics to reflect upon acting in situations of abuse in health care

Book Review: Anthologizing Illness in Shammas’s CORPUS

Book Review: Silent Voice

Book Review: The Best We Could Do

Book Review: Reviewed: Twisted Doodles’ The Newborn Identity by Maria Boyle

Library: Thread on considering content warnings for GM collections

Video: Lucy Knisley at C2E2

Podcast: 153: MK Czerwiec on Circulating Ideas

Blog: Imagining the science bit

Blog: City Tales, a change of subject

Blog (Scholarly): How Do You Deal With the Trauma? VT and Me via @anitafamilydoc

Blog: Straight Cancer in a Queer Body via @kimikotobimatsu

Interview: Graphic Content: Brian Fies on the fire that destroyed his home

Interview: Cómix Latinx Interview: Dr. Theresa Rojas and The LatinoGraphix Collection

Twitter: Rachel Lindsay joined us at Countway! Follow this thread (and the one’s it branches to) to see a recap on Twitter!

Las enfermedades mentales en 10 cómics

How to get young scientists thinking about ethics? Cartooning, say UW researchers

Can Art Heal Our Healers?

Call For Reviewers For The Polyphony

Staff Picks: Peasants, Postpartum, and Palestine

Drawing from Experience

5 graphic novels about mental health

When Did Marvel Ban Smoking in Their Comic Books?

GET A GRIP!: Georgia Webber’s Creative and Healing Path

Vermont Folklife Center receives grant to support cartooning

Chinese student’s comics about her cancer raise US$30,000 for medical bills after Weibo appeal

The Cartoonist Studio Prize: The Shortlists

Marvel’s New Comic Book Series, The Unstoppable Wasp, Stars a Superhero With Bipolar Disorder


Tweets…


Some great stuff this week! Did I miss something? Let me know in the comments below or tweet @NoetheMatt! Until next time…

Categories: This Week in Graphic Medicine Tags: blog, book review, Brighton, c2e2, Event, facebook, graphic medicine conference, Interview, Kickstarter, library, podcast, Scholarly, sexism, toxic masculinity, Twitter, Video, webcomic

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