Creative Annotation. By Cynthia Ling Lee and Pato Herbert, with Megan Moodie (UCSC)
Session Objectives:
Learn to express, and help others to express, personal/experiential forms of expertise
Establish new relationships to discourse analysis and bureaucratic medical and public health cultures
Create group-based, community-led forms of medical humanities and arts
Preparation Time:
Facilitator Preparation:
Suggested Prep Time: 90-120 minutes
30-60 min finding suitable materials for annotation (will depend on class focus and format)
60 min reading materials
Facilitator Pre-Reading/Materials:
For all levels:
Ariela Freedman. “The Comics Pain Scale and Comics About Pain,” In Pathographics: Narrative, Aesthetics, Contention, Community. (2020): 59-73.
Ariel Gore. “Paint it Black,” in Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer. The Feminist Press. (2025): 170-176.
Kalir, R. (2025). Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice. Mit Press. (Definitely Opening Remarks, chapters on Harriet Tubman or US/Mexico border may be especially useful for graduate students)
Images from Forney, E. (2012). Marbles : mania, depression, Michelangelo, & me : a graphic memoir. Avery.
Additional resources by method/medium:
The Cut Up and the Collage
burrough, xtine, Gallagher, O., & Navas, E. (Eds.). (2018). Cut Up. Keywords in remix studies (1st ed.). Routledge,
Flint, M. A., Willis, K., Pless, J., Green, J., Williams, A., Mullan, C., ... & Isome, B. (2026). Collaging awakening and resistance with/in artful inquiry. Qualitative Inquiry, 32(2), 219-231.
Black Out Poetry
Vines, E., Abraczinskas, M., Kennedy, H., & Chávez, N. R. (2025). Reclaiming Narratives: Using Blackout Poetry as a Tool in YPAR for Emotional Processing and Disrupting Adultism. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 6(3).
Participant Preparation:
N/A