Systems medicine│Social and political theory of health
‘The university is a critical institution or it is nothing’ (Stuart Hall)
Master of arts│I read and write through a postcolonial queer-feminist lens
Culture & Theory│Materiality & Theory│Queer ways of seeing
Sürüden ayrılanların hikayeleri🦉🎈kuir görme biçimleri
#BlackLivesMatter ✊🏾 🌈🏳️⚧️ Vegan 🚲
Toronto, Ontario
| Bio | https://www.linkedin.com/in/vuralozdemir/ |
| Biopolitics in Science and Medicine | https://mehmetvuralozdemir.academia.edu/ |
| Critical Innovation Studies (CIS) | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00011 |
Contexts matters.
Without context, content is unjust, unrelatable, hollow & meaningless, and replaces the enduring with immediacy, narrow mindsets and short-termism.
I took the photograph ⬇️ in early November 2025: the #sundial at Galbraith Road and the King's College Road on the #UniversityofToronto #campus
#Time is the most salient #interlocutor.
Next is the #unconscious, the deputy interlocutor that is always on call 24/7
Third is the #place, the interlocutor that does not move but moves us.
Temporal, unconscious and spatial contexts matter. For writing, poetry, text work, science, journalism, arts, medicine and society, and everyone striving to build bridges between content & context.
#writers #queerwriters #journalism #queerjournalism #arts #science #contextmatters #Lacan #psychoanalysis
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Independent artisan #bookstores are vital #public goods
Suzanne Vega - Live on Tour
📌 "Flying With Angels Tour 2025 - 2026"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9p1y53biuw
Tour info and tickets:
https://www.suzannevega.com/tour
Upcoming:
London, England
3 November 2025
Los Angeles, CA
Feb 15, 2026
#Heteronormativity and cisgenderism in medical training: A scoping review
Social Science & #Medicine, Volume 370, April 2025
📌 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953625001510
"LGBTQ+ issues were lacking in the formal medical curriculum, with very little consideration beyond strictly biomedical concerns."
📌 New study published on October 13, 2025
On Large Language Models (LLMs) and Contextual Reasoning
"Our results suggest that they may rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria.
We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification."
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
"What value, after all, is there in automating art, thinking, or reading – especially in educational and academic settings? None. On the contrary, .."
Autumn #book sale
#UofT St. George campus
A selection of thousands of used and rare books; fiction and literature, non-fiction, history, philosophy, poetry & more
https://alumni.utoronto.ca/events/uc-book-sale
The Art of Critique | Op-ed 10 Sept 2025
As we draw closer to the end of 2025, we are marking the end of the first quarter of the 21st century.
For equitable science & healthcare, we need a departure from narrow technocratic models & mindsets to account for political determinants, the causes-of-causes, of planetary health—the elephants in the room that we need to face for an incisive, just, and robust #art of #critique in the second quarter of the 21st century.
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