Publication: "Autoimmune: A 'Medicinal History'"

My textile-essay, "Autoimmune: A 'Medicinal History,'" was published in Disability Studies Quarterly. ​

Since I was not allowed to include acknowledgements in the published version, I'm going to do that here instead. Thank you to my mum, Ayesha Khan, for the idea of making a doll, and to my Oma, Henny Khan, for teaching me how to sew. A big thank you to Lzz Johnk, my mad kin, who gave me the courage to call myself mad in the first place. I am also grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful engagement and generative feedback. ​

Image Description: A 22-inch rag doll sits on a cherry wood rocking chair. She has brown yarn hair and her face wears a smile. There is a winding tattoo of a purple dragon on her right leg. She is wearing dark purple glasses and a lavender hospital gown with white polka dots. A multi-colored cane is attached to her right wrist and her left bears a hospital wristband. On either forearm, she sports Star Wars-themed Band-Aids. A white hospital glove is fastened to her arm by a large metallic pearled pin. These pins appear in six locations on the doll's body: her inner-elbows, the backs of her knees, and the center of her lower back. Multicolored papers with words written on them are affixed to the doll's body by small matte pins.