Faculty lecture by Lisa Diedrich/WGSS, "Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism", will explores illness and disability in action on social media, analyzing popular hashtags as examples of how illness figures in recent U.S. politics. In this book, Lisa Diedrich shows how illness- and disability-oriented hashtags serve as portals into how and why illness and disability are sites of political struggle. Respondent: Nancy Tomes/HIS.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 5:00-6:30 PM in Humanities 1008.

Lisa Diedrich is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University. Her research and teaching interests are in critical health studies, disability studies, feminist science studies, critical pedagogies, and graphic medicine. Along with Illness Politics and Hashtag Activism, she is also the author of Indirect Action and Treatments. She is currently working on a collection entitled Keywords/Images in Graphic Medicine, co-edited with Briana Martino, to be published in 2025.

Nancy Tomes is SUNY Distinguished Professor of History at Stony Brook University. She has written four books: The Art of Asylum Keeping (1985), Madness in America, with Lynn Gamwell (1995), The Gospel of Germs (1998), and Remaking the American Patient: How Madison Avenue and Modern Medicine Turned Patients into Consumers (2016). Viral Fears: Historical Perspectives on Pandemic Futures is her latest project.