{"id":597,"date":"2025-09-19T13:22:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T13:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/?page_id=597"},"modified":"2025-11-13T20:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T20:14:55","slug":"column-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/home\/archive\/column-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Column One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Column One, part of Rhetoric of Health & Medicine<\/em> Vol. 6, No. 4 (2023)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Graphic RHM co-editors\u2019 note:<\/strong>
Catherine and Blake would like to thank RHM<\/em> co-editors, Cathryn Molloy and Kim Hensley Owens, and editorial board members for their input and guidance in conceiving this new column. We offer a special thank you to RHM<\/em> associate editor Bryna Siegel Finer, whose vision, ingenuity, hard work, and patience make the delivery of this column possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given where the column is housed, we must work with the accessibility constraints and possibilities of the medicalrhetoric.com website and its WordPress template. Accordingly, you can access each comic in Column One in at least two different ways: 1) Click on the HTML version of each comic, all of which have images with concise alt text and some of which include options to access longer descriptive text files for accessibility purposes; or 2) Download a PDF of the comic and artist statement, which includes concise alt text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIntroduction to Column One,\u201d <\/strong>
Catherine Gouge (she\/her) and <\/strong>
Blake Scott (he\/him)<\/strong>
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In this comic, the co-editors introduce both Graphic RHM as a column and as an idea\/practice, highlighting themes and comics inside the column, and inviting future work.<\/summary>\n

To cite: Gouge, Catherine and J. Blake Scott. (2023). Introduction to Graphic Medicine Column One. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, <\/em>6(4), http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/home\/archive\/column-1\/<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSPECTRUM,\u201d Erin Fitzgerald (she\/her)
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This comic explores the therapeutic impact of drawing responses to cartoons the author had already drawn depicting scenarios she struggles with.<\/summary>\n

To cite: Fitzgerald, Erin. (2023). SPECTRUM [comics and artist statement]. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 6<\/em>(4), http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/ home\/archive\/column-1\/ftzgerald-1\/<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cBENNU\u2014A Visual Ethnographic Short Story of a Counselor and Excessive Punishment, Volume 1,\u201d Kelly Dozier (she\/her)<\/strong><\/strong>
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This comic offers a multimodal (with audio) portrayal of the author’s embodied and rhetorical negotiations of living with lupus.<\/summary>\n

To cite: Dozier, Kelly. (2023). Excerpt from \u201cBENNU\u201d\u2014a visual ethnographic short story of a counselor and excessive punishment, volume 1 [comic and artist statement]. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 6<\/em>(4), https:\/\/medicalrhetoric. com\/graphicRHM\/home\/archive\/column-1\/dozier\/<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cImmortal Lightheartedness,\u201d KC Councilor (he\/him)<\/strong>
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This contribution explores how comics can create agentive, non-normative stories and draws attention to the rhetorical dynamics of such experiences.<\/summary>\n

To cite: Councilor, KC. (2023). Immortal lightheartedness [comics and artist statement]. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 6<\/em>(4), http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphi- cRHM\/home\/archive\/column-1\/councilor\/<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIt Stays in the Family,\u201d Maja Milkowska-Shibata (she\/her)<\/strong>
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In this comic, the author shares an experience she had as a medical interpreter for a family member, highlighting the ethical and pragmatic challenges of working from multiple positions.<\/summary>\n

To cite: Milkowska-Shibata, Maja. (2023). It stays in the family [comic and artist state- ment]. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 6<\/em>(4), http:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/ graphicRHM\/home\/archive\/column-1\/milkowska-shibata\/<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cA Field Guide to Neurodiversity,\u201d Erin Kathleen Bahl (she\/her)<\/strong>
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This comic shares the author’s experiences navigating diagnostic rhetorics and draws attention to conversations around neurodiversity and neurodivergent lived experiences.<\/summary>\n

To cite: Bahl, Erin Kathleen. (2023). A feld guide to neurodiversity [comic and artist statement]. Rhetoric of Health & Medicine, 6<\/em>(4), https:\/\/medicalrhetoric. com\/graphicRHM\/home\/archive\/column-1\/bahl\/<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Column One, part of Rhetoric of Health & Medicine Vol. 6, No. 4 (2023) Graphic RHM co-editors\u2019 note:Catherine and Blake would like to thank RHM co-editors, Cathryn Molloy and Kim Hensley Owens, and editorial board members for their input and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-597","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/597\/revisions\/618"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicalrhetoric.com\/graphicRHM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}