illness #1 w/ Micha Frazer-Carroll, Amber Husain, Matt Colquhoun

Audio from illness #1, the first Red Medicine event held at The Horse Hospital on May 25th. The evening was a night of readings from Micha Frazer-Carroll, Amber Husain and Matt Colquhoun on the political, cultural and historic significance of illness.

TIME STAMPS:

05:00 - Red Medicine introductory text

12:15 - Micha Frazer-Carroll (https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346717/mad-world/)

20:50 - Amber Husain (https://mackbooks.co.uk/products/meat-love-an-ideology-of-the-flesh-br-amber-husain)

47:12 - Matt Colquhoun (https://repeaterbooks.com/product/narcissus-in-bloom/)

Micha Frazer-Carroll is a columnist at the Independent. She has previously edited for gal-dem, the Guardian and Blueprint, a mental health magazine that she founded. Micha has also written for Vogue, HuffPost, Huck and Dazed. She was nominated for the Comment Awards’ Fresh New Voice of the Year Award, and the Observer/Anthony Burgess Award for Arts Criticism. She is invested in using journalism to challenge systems of power.

Amber Husain is an essayist and academic, currently researching the relationship between psychosomatic medicine and neoliberal biopolitics. She is the author of Replace Me (Peninsula Press, 2021) and Meat Love (Mack, 2023), and is currently working on a new non-fiction book.

Matt Colquhoun is a writer and photographer from Hull, UK. They are the author of Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher (2020) and the editor of Mark Fisher’s Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures (2021). Their next book, Narcissus in Bloom, is forthcoming from Repeater Books in 2023. Currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne, they blog at xenogothic.com.

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