This piece serves as introduction for the Special Issue: “‘I don’t know why she swallowed the fly’: On Dubious Cures and Drastic Measures in Post (?) Pandemic Times.” A panel presented at the 2023 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Each of 10 performative and poetic essays respond to the prompt and speak to issues of agism, sexism, gender-bias, homophobia, violence, pharmaceutical consumption, medical industry bias, the social construction and consumption of lies, and the potentials of utopian dreams as strategies of intervention.
AlhayekK.AlexanderB. K.FosterE.Hernandez OjedaC.Mackie-StephensonA.MoreiraC.PeliasR. J.PoulosC.SuttonT.TwishimeP. I. (2022). Collaborative autoethnographic writing as communal curative. International Review of Qualitative Research, 15(4), 544–570. https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447211068193
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