Zu Gast bei: Typefrage- Der Diabetes Podcast mit Kim und Freddie
In dieser Folge schauen unsere Hosts Freddie Schürheck (Typ 1) und Kim Stoppert (Typ 2) auf internationale Künstler, die in ihren Werken ihre eigenen Diabetes-Erfahrungen verarbeiten. Außerdem sprechen sie mit Murielle (Typ 1) die aus ihrem Diabetes-Müll kleine Kunstwerke bastelt und in Texten über ihre Erkrankung auf Ängste und Vorurteile eingeht.
nach dem piks ist vor dem piks
das wunderbare phyllmagazine hat meinen text ‘nach dem piks ist vor dem piks’ zusammen mit einer tollen illustration von Sophie Smeets in Issue 0:: Courage veröffentlicht.
#antikriegslyrik
Auf dem Instagram Kanal @antikriegslyrik werden viele bewegende Gedichte gegen den Krieg gesammelt. Ein Gedicht von mir findet ihr nun auch dort. Aus einer Auswahl der eingesandten Gedichte soll ein Lyrikband entstehen, der im Trabanten Verlag im April 2022 erscheinen soll. Der Erlös aus dem Verkauf wird gespendet.
Internalised Ableism and Language
In this blog post for Interscetions Lit Magazine I talk about disability and the experience of internalised ableism and which role language plays in all of it.
“You don’t look disabled”, “Oh, so it’s not a real disability”, or euphemisms for disability like special needs, handicapped, or differently abled all question disability and its seriousness…”
Cumulus- Rhodora Magazine
My non-fiction peice ‘cumulus’ was published in the wonderful Rhodora Magazine. It’s all about clouds and fear and the pain of that first injection of insulin; the pain that still carries through sometimes.
Life Without Insulin
A hundred years ago, the research that led to the discovery of insulin began. Without the discovery of insulin, people with diabetes would still die of diabetic ketoacidosis. Read the whole story of the discovery and why people still die from lack of insulin today in my new blog post over on Intersections Lit Magazine.
coffee table bruises
blood leaks/
this needle’s puncture dissolves in a scarlet marble
still
on my skin
before it follows
gravity in a single stream,
the carmine glows in unfaded clarity
as if nothing had been added
– insulin doesn’t have a colour.
Poem ‘Milchgefühl’ in Dissonance Magazine
Read my new poem ‘Milchgefühl’ in the wonderful Dissonance Magazine. It is a poem trying to give a name to the indescrible feeling and misunderstandings around individual perceptions of depression and the realisation that no matter how much you care for someone, nobody can save anyone but themselves.
Memoira Magazine: ‘fizzled out’
Find my prose text ‘fizzled out’ in the new issue of the wonderful Memoira Magazine alongside amazing artwork by Ally Zlatar.
“She nods, trying not to smile. She grabs her own glass, stirs the ice cubes inside with the steel drinking straw, faster, the sharp click clack of ice on glass turning into a coherent vortex of jarring until the vigor of the sound reaches her mind…”
Memoira Magazine: ‘hindsight is 2020’
New poetry published in Memoira Magazine: Find my poems 'hindsight is 2020', which I created by rearranging fragments of news headlines over the course of two months in 2020, and my poem 'normotherapy', an appreciation to a mother's sacrifices, in their new issue.
Do I Deserve My Chronic Condition?
In this personal essay published by the wonderful Dissonance Magazine, I describe my life after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and how it has progressed and affected depression and anxiety:
“I stay in a spacious six-bed dormitory in a pier-side hostel in Brighton when, upon my return from the Seven Sisters…”
C-Heads Magazine: nubivagant
‘ciel’, she said, that’s what the french call it, the ceiling of mother earth –
she looked up.
it was incredibly white from the red, the blue, the yellow; white as the sum of the spectrum, white as the desolation of something terminated…
Waiting for the Encore of Live Music
A blog article over on Intersections Lit Magazine about the absence of live music and concerts.
How to ‘Guesstimate’ Christmas Dinner
A fun little recipe on how Christmas dinner feels for a person living with diabetes.
All Ears India: White Surveillance Cam
My gloomy story set in Fog City Diner, published by All Ears India.
Dear Loneliness Project- A Letter
Dear Loneliness Project aims to create the world’s longest letter by compiling letters from all around the world dealing with loneliness and isolation. Read my letter here.
MORIA Magazine: Undoing
My creative nonfiction text about life with a chronic illness.
C-Heads Magazine: Ten after Ten
My text Ten after Ten was published in C-Heads Magazine.