Anne Gridley transforms walking into defiant performance, confronting disability, discomfort, and rare disease awareness head-on.

A poetry collection exploring illness, loss, memory, and hope through intimate reflections on life and family.

Historical novel exploring 16th‑century anatomist Mateo Colombo’s controversial discovery of the clitoris.

Poet-physician Jack Coulehan reflects on medical humanities, technology’s impact, and poetry’s role in healing in this thoughtful interview.

Margo Weishar explores Elizabeth Blackwell’s hidden life, ambition, and sacrifice ahead of a public reading.

Sarah Kane’s final play fractures theatrical form to embody depression, psychosis, and the limits of language.

Florian Zeller’s The Father immerses audiences inside dementia, transforming theatrical disorientation into visceral understanding and empathy.

Physical suffering becomes philosophical insight as illness transforms pain, fear, and mortality into unexpected benefit.

Broadway revival of Tracy Letts’ Bug probes paranoia, race, and medical ethics.

RestFest reimagines film festivals through disabled-led creativity, radical access, and care-centered viewing beyond ableist norms.

A critical examination of drug approval, safety, pricing, and regulatory decline in contemporary pharmaceutical practice.

A thoughtful review of a Swiss-based digital archive examining cultural dimensions of assisted dying debates.

A moving exploration of healing across cultures, faiths, and traditions, where Western medicine meets indigenous wisdom in profound, transformative encounters.

A haunting, nonlinear exploration of slavery, memory, motherhood, and trauma in Toni Morrison’s masterwork American.

International adoption from China arose amid policy-driven abandonment, later fostering trafficking incentives and coerced family separations.

This essay examines how policy, culture, and power quietly claim women’s bodies worldwide.

Three poems explore cultural identity, family conflict, and the influence of media on class, belonging, and cross-cultural understanding.

A thriller about psychopharmaceuticals becomes a feminist meditation on madness, coercion, and resistance within patriarchal domestic spaces.