We’ve just had a piece published as part of a QUEERCIRCLE takeover on The Polyphony web platform. We’ve been huge fans of The Polyphony for years, and it’s a great place to have our work published because it focuses on the overlap between medicine/health (including mental health, trauma, neurodivergence and disability) and the arts/humanities (including crafting, memoir, fiction, and zines).

Our article brings together several of the research projects carried out at QUEERCIRCLE about the kinds of creative health practices they offer there. We explore what a more intimate and expansive understanding of research might look like, than the one most of us are familiar with. We suggest it could be valuable for all of us to engage in research into ourselves (embodied), our relationships (entangled), and our communities and wider cultures (embedded).

We invite a TenderQueer approach to research and practice, recognising just how painful, vulnerable, and loving it is to stay with the trouble in ourselves, our relationships, and our world through such hard, hard times.

• You can read our Polyphony article here.
• You can read the rest of the QUEERCIRCLE takeover articles here.
• If you’re interested, you can also check out our QUEERCIRCLE zines about Queer Creative Health, and Researching Ourselves. There’s a review of these zines on The Polyphony here.