Update (and Hello!)
You've likely noticed that we've been on bit of a hiatus - but we're still committed to the Drawing Blood project and we're hoping to come back with a new season soon! In the meantime, we're on the lo...
19 Feb 1min
S3 Ep6: Seeing Voices, Margaret Watts Hughes, and the Science of the Invisible
Emma and Christy discover Margaret Watts Hughes's beautiful 'voice figures', a series of images made through the direct action of her voice between 1885 and 1904. In this episode, we discuss the earli...
30 Sep 202457min
S3 Ep4: Tattoos, 'Deviant' Signs, and Surveilled Skins
Emma and Christy present a brief history of tattooing in Europe. We talk tattoos as art history; sailors and soldiers; the archival (in)visibility of tattoos; the ‘Cook myth’, colonial contact, and co...
31 Jul 202454min
S3 Ep3: Alchemy, Androgyny, and the Paintings of Remedios Varo
In this episode, Emma and Christy look at the complex paintings of the Spanish-Mexican Surrealist painter Remedios Varo (1908-1963). During our conversation, we discuss female alchemists, artist’s stu...
28 Jun 20241h 3min
S3 Ep2: Cannibalism on Film, Empathy, and Eating Disorders
Emma and Christy watch Julia Ducournau’s first feature film, the cannibal coming-of-age body horror flick 'Grave' (or 'Raw'), 2016. In this episode, we cover cinéma du corps and New French Extremity, ...
30 Mai 20241h 1min
S3 Ep1: Dental Phantoms, Tooth Horror, and Medical Simulation
Emma and Christy look at dental phantoms — terrifying but ubiquitous tools in dental education since the nineteenth century that feature humanoid heads made out of metal or wood, and a gaping mouth fu...
29 Apr 20241h 2min
Minisode 1: Women and Early Modern Mines with Dr Gabriele Marcon
Surprise — it’s a minisode! In our very first interview, historian of early modern mining Dr Gabriele Marcon (I Tatti / Harvard University) shows Emma and Christy a painting from early modern Spanish ...
18 Mar 202429min
