Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies. Tweets about disability, chronic illness, health, feminism and social justice. Also the arts, writing and creativity.
Happy to announce this new issue I edited with colleagues on disability and lessons from the pandemic. There are some really great contributions from different parts of the world here. All open access.
Imagining Better Futures of Health & Social Care with & for People with Energy Limiting Chronic Illnesses
🟡Are you a healthcare professional interested in providing more effective support for women & marginalised genders with ELC/I?
Take part: https://t.co/TmV29vZWc4
Really interesting opportunity to take part in research if you living with chronic illness and have accessed counselling or psychotherapy in the UK. Please share.
@chronicinclude@thelrm@anabeonline@alison_allam @MeeshECG For more info and to sign up:
Workshops for anyone eligible: https://t.co/CfGxhtkWwx
Workshops for Muslim women: https://t.co/FSziImbIgj
Workshops for LGBTQIA+ people: https://t.co/1cdgt83uGA
Please find out more about our current workshops for people with energy limitation to consider better futures for health and social care. Sign up forms are now available.
A bit more about our workshops for people with energy limiting conditions: they are open to any women, trans men, non binary, intersex, gender queer, or people of marginalised gender who live in the UK are over 18 and experience energy impairment / ELC / ELCI @chronicinclude
A box of books arrived. I made zines. Thanks to friends and colleagues for all their support with this project @LiverpoolHopeUK and beyond @Paula_Millward @ErinPritchard15 @INLCDS @NSEAD_Sophie @riacheyne@anabeonline
Please sign our petition for a review of Talking Therapies provision - an independent audit of NHS TT, more relational and longer term therapy, based on community need
https://t.co/xI3ILSL1x6
So happy to be able to continue working with this fab team led by Bethan. We are very pleased to have received AHRC funding to imagine better futures for health and social care for people living with chronic illness.
Please come to our roundtable where we will explore chronic illness and representation with some of the authors of our edited journal issues. Sign up through link below. Please share!
@DrESheppard and I are happy to announce that the JLCDS issue we edited on representations of chronic illness is now out. It was a pleasure working with the authors and all of them offer important contributions.
https://t.co/CeBCEXeSG6
@thelrm@DeafInstitute@TheCaitlinRose Been told once by a venue that they could not provide a chair for me to sit because it's a tripping hazard for drunk people!
@thelrm@DeafInstitute@TheCaitlinRose Really sorry to hear about this, Morag. It's a struggle to get venues to understand access beyond wheelchair usage.I end up not going to so many things because I know I can't sit. They just don't get it
CN: DWP
I've talked about this before, but as this ad is activating trauma, I want to explain what disabled people live with.
More than 15 years ago (yes, before the Tories), all my benefits suddenly stopped. When I called to ask why I was put through to the fraud office.
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CN: DWP
I've talked about this before, but as this ad is activating trauma, I want to explain what disabled people live with.
More than 15 years ago (yes, before the Tories), all my benefits suddenly stopped. When I called to ask why I was put through to the fraud office.
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