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olgagroma.bsky.social
ex philosopher, medical anthropology and disability studies researcher;
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2025 is the year you finally read your downloaded PDFs

📢NEW ISSUE of Int. Journal of #Disability and #SocialJustice OUT NOW! READ FREE ijdsj.online/current-issue/ - access to #justice - 'crip' solidarity - remembering institutions - academic discourse & neurodiversity - new materialist perspectives - #HumanRights Bulletin from Argentina - book review

at least this one pigeon sitting on thorns-against-pigeons

I finished Venus on Wheels by Gelya Frank yesterday – my major book in December; It’s cultural biography, and 20 years of collaboration with/ research of Diana's life from position of anthropologists and friend

I just found Erzengel Gabriel (von der Verkündigungsgruppe, Niederbayern, um 1490-1500) today in museum 🥺

Our Christmas Eve present from @oxunipress.bsky.social: proofs of our forthcoming Handbook! 50 newly commissioned chapters on #19thCentury #women in #philosophy from logicians to social theorists to utilitarians to pacifists. I guess I know what will be first on my to-do list in 2025! #philsky

Mona-Marie Wandrey & me on the need to take a precautionary approach towards patients in a so-called "vegetative state" (and the term is part of the problem!). theconversation.com/its-hard-to-...

well, at least I still have 100+ interesting PDFs on my computer to read

BSP is running an online speaker series on Merleau-Ponty writings on nature, including the "Nature and Logos: The Human Body" lecture course. This will (happily/sadly) influence my Christmas break reading!

the vibes of the second half of this year:

The future of phenomenological psychopathology Lucienne Spencer, Matthew R. Broome, Giovanni Stanghellini www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

sometimes we all –

we are making a public talk about disabilities in/and video games in contemporary art museum in a few days 👾

I have a big article out today about being diagnosed as autistic while I was writing my latest book, & how tabletop games help me navigate the world as an autistic person. I hope it's interesting to some people. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I found this visualization of themes/philosophers from the Stanford Philosophy Library, and you know, I can't read anything but chinese medicine at the bottom…

today I got my own copy of this amazing classic sociological book, which was first published in 1989, but still hasn't lost its relevance 💖

old but gold

✨one year ago I found video that describes the best my everyday activity at the university

🗣️ Call for Papers 🔊 I am co-guest editing with Dr Jada Wiggleton-Little a special issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal on Chronic Pain & Social Justice. ✍️ Deadline: May 31, 2025. For inquiries please contact me or Dr Wiggleton-Little. More info ⤵️ #bioethics #academicsky

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

One week left to submit your abstract for our workshop 'Queer Pharma' with @kanerace.bsky.social . @hdilger.bsky.social and I are excited to read your contribution!

Dygger, Flaterere, Picarde, Rowlande, Torkoplere - those and another 1060 names for dogs from the a medieval manuscript https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/dog-names-middle-ages/ #DogNames

what it feels like being back in the college of public health after spending the week with my comrades at the anthropology conference