Ep 4: Knowledges of Care

In this episode, Élaina talks to Jackie Baxter of the Long COVID Podcast and Peter Keogh, a professor of Health and Society at the Open University, about disabled knowledges of care. We trek through the history of HIV activism to better understand what is at stake when living with a chronic illness explodes the boundaries of what biomedicine can address. Oh, and this is the one where we talk about cripistemologies.

Texts mentioned in this episode:

Gays Against Genocide Pamphlet

Lisa Merri Johnson and Robert McRuer’s Cripistemologies: Introduction

Audre Lorde’s Cancer Journals

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha’s The Future is Disabled
J. Logan Smilges’ Crip Negativity

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Hosting, producing, and editing is done by Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril

Music is by Morgan Kluck-Keil

This podcast is made with the support of the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, Usher Institute, at the University of Edinburgh.