Emily Krebs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3804832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Krebs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Krebs |
| SIGNATURE | KREBS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1308-8673 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Countering Suicidism
Contemporary US public discourse, psychiatric practices, and legal policies often frame suicidal people as inherently incapable of understanding their own realities and making their own healthcare decisions. This subjects suicidal people to various human rights abuses, including carceral care practices such as involuntary hospitalization. Alexandre Baril refers to this unique form of sanist-ableist oppression as “suicidism” and calls for the use …
Queering the Desire to Die
Based on heightened suicide rates of LGBTQ+ people, in this essay I reclaim the desire to die as a queer desire in itself. This framework aims to demedicalize-and thus re-politicize-the desire to die as a "normal" response to living in societies of domination and violence against queer lives. Through this, I frame suicidal people as agentic beings who play crucial roles in systems of community healing in the face of compulsory vivation. Building …
Chemistry in the mail
Postage stamps are designed to convey messages that reverberate symbolically with broad swaths of the public, and their content has been employed as a window into how members of the public understand the ideas represented therein. In this rhetorical analysis, we analyze Philadelphia’s Science History Institute’s Witco Stamp Collection, which features 430 stamps from countries around the globe dating from 1910 to 1983, to identify how chemistry is…
A sour taste of sick chronicity
In the face of COVID-19 shutdowns, much of the world fundamentally adjusted its relationship to time, space, work, productivity, and rest. In this essay, I theorize the pandemic as forcing many people to live within “sick spacetime,” which involves 1) experiencing inconsistent mobility, 2) acknowledging the precarity of our bodyminds, and 3) living in the liminal state of being constantly in-wait. I use “sick spacetime” to problematize widespread…
Mad to the bone
We outline critical grief pedagogy as a Mad feminist response to the silencing of loss that often occurs in academic spaces. This pedagogical framework creates openings for students to “break open the bone” of their own and others’ losses, particularly through community-engaged learning and research. Using collaborative autoethnography, in this essay we (a professor and her mentees) explore our experiences working with the Scraps of the Heart Pro…
Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program
This article investigates place-making—a process involving appeals to embodiment, materiality, and spatial arrangement—as a means for building communicative relationships between technical scientific communities and lay publics. Drawing from discourses related to the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program’s 89 landmarks, we illustrate how the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program builds different types of relationships with nonexperts …
Combating the ills of involuntary intake
In the state of Colorado, people deemed a danger to themselves can be committed to a psychiatric hospital regardless of whether or not they consent to such treatment. Despite the life-saving potential of this practice, the mode through which psychiatric professionals are legally mandated to enact it - by completing the ‘M-1 form' - is deeply flawed. This document forces healthcare providers to make judgments based on personal appearance and perfo…
Our babies[’] count[er story]
The non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS) hosts annual remembrance walks that gather bereaved families to honor babies who have died. Grounded in narrative theory and research on family communication rituals, the present study focused on understanding how the NILMDTS Remembrance Walk counternarrates the experience of baby loss vis-à-vis the master narrative that silences it. Our narrative ethnography included participating …
A visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings
Children experiencing the death of baby brother or sister have reported individual, familial, and communicative challenges. Siblings also have indicated that the loss of a baby in their family enriched their lives despite their pain. The present study extends this work by focusing not only on siblings but also other children enmeshed in the family system. Additionally, we heed the call for the use of arts-based methods in family communication by …
A sour taste of sick chronicity
In the face of COVID-19 shutdowns, much of the world fundamentally adjusted its relationship to time, space, work, productivity, and rest. In this essay, I theorize the pandemic as forcing many people to live within “sick spacetime,” which involves 1) experiencing inconsistent mobility, 2) acknowledging the precarity of our bodyminds, and 3) living in the liminal state of being constantly in-wait. I use “sick spacetime” to problematize widespread…
Our babies[’] count[er story]
The non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS) hosts annual remembrance walks that gather bereaved families to honor babies who have died. Grounded in narrative theory and research on family communication rituals, the present study focused on understanding how the NILMDTS Remembrance Walk counternarrates the experience of baby loss vis-à-vis the master narrative that silences it. Our narrative ethnography included participating …
Queering the Desire to Die
Based on heightened suicide rates of LGBTQ+ people, in this essay I reclaim the desire to die as a queer desire in itself. This framework aims to demedicalize-and thus re-politicize-the desire to die as a "normal" response to living in societies of domination and violence against queer lives. Through this, I frame suicidal people as agentic beings who play crucial roles in systems of community healing in the face of compulsory vivation. Building …
A visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings
Children experiencing the death of baby brother or sister have reported individual, familial, and communicative challenges. Siblings also have indicated that the loss of a baby in their family enriched their lives despite their pain. The present study extends this work by focusing not only on siblings but also other children enmeshed in the family system. Additionally, we heed the call for the use of arts-based methods in family communication by …
Our babies[’] count[er story]
The non-profit organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (NILMDTS) hosts annual remembrance walks that gather bereaved families to honor babies who have died. Grounded in narrative theory and research on family communication rituals, the present study focused on understanding how the NILMDTS Remembrance Walk counternarrates the experience of baby loss vis-à-vis the master narrative that silences it. Our narrative ethnography included participating …
Combating the ills of involuntary intake
In the state of Colorado, people deemed a danger to themselves can be committed to a psychiatric hospital regardless of whether or not they consent to such treatment. Despite the life-saving potential of this practice, the mode through which psychiatric professionals are legally mandated to enact it - by completing the ‘M-1 form' - is deeply flawed. This document forces healthcare providers to make judgments based on personal appearance and perfo…
Mad to the bone
We outline critical grief pedagogy as a Mad feminist response to the silencing of loss that often occurs in academic spaces. This pedagogical framework creates openings for students to “break open the bone” of their own and others’ losses, particularly through community-engaged learning and research. Using collaborative autoethnography, in this essay we (a professor and her mentees) explore our experiences working with the Scraps of the Heart Pro…
Strategic Place-Making and Public Scientific Outreach in the American Chemical Society’s National Historic Chemical Landmarks Program
This article investigates place-making—a process involving appeals to embodiment, materiality, and spatial arrangement—as a means for building communicative relationships between technical scientific communities and lay publics. Drawing from discourses related to the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program’s 89 landmarks, we illustrate how the National Historic Chemical Landmark Program builds different types of relationships with nonexperts …
Chemistry in the mail
Postage stamps are designed to convey messages that reverberate symbolically with broad swaths of the public, and their content has been employed as a window into how members of the public understand the ideas represented therein. In this rhetorical analysis, we analyze Philadelphia’s Science History Institute’s Witco Stamp Collection, which features 430 stamps from countries around the globe dating from 1910 to 1983, to identify how chemistry is…
A sour taste of sick chronicity
In the face of COVID-19 shutdowns, much of the world fundamentally adjusted its relationship to time, space, work, productivity, and rest. In this essay, I theorize the pandemic as forcing many people to live within “sick spacetime,” which involves 1) experiencing inconsistent mobility, 2) acknowledging the precarity of our bodyminds, and 3) living in the liminal state of being constantly in-wait. I use “sick spacetime” to problematize widespread…
Queering the Desire to Die
Based on heightened suicide rates of LGBTQ+ people, in this essay I reclaim the desire to die as a queer desire in itself. This framework aims to demedicalize-and thus re-politicize-the desire to die as a "normal" response to living in societies of domination and violence against queer lives. Through this, I frame suicidal people as agentic beings who play crucial roles in systems of community healing in the face of compulsory vivation. Building …
Countering Suicidism
Contemporary US public discourse, psychiatric practices, and legal policies often frame suicidal people as inherently incapable of understanding their own realities and making their own healthcare decisions. This subjects suicidal people to various human rights abuses, including carceral care practices such as involuntary hospitalization. Alexandre Baril refers to this unique form of sanist-ableist oppression as “suicidism” and calls for the use …
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works)