Dr Anna Stenning

She/they; music lover and plant enthusiast. Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University; own views.

[Dr Anna Stenning @anna_stenning]

https://t.co/8OxMbd2hA0 includes a chapter by me, on Edward Thomas: 'The Superfluous Who “Neither Produce like the Poor nor Consume like the Rich”: Eugenics and the “Coloniality of Ability” in Edward Thomas’s The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans (1913)'

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

The timing is perfect, after yesterday's horrific green paper.
Thanks to the @AmnestyUK annual media awards for shortlisting my investigation into how #DWP spent years covering up evidence linking it with countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants: https://t.co/gxv05vseVL

[Dr Anna Stenning @anna_stenning]

From “moral deficiency” to “economic inactivity,” welfare reform rebrands eugenic thinking. Disability reframed as failure of character, sanctions replacing sterilisation. The fit are rewarded, the rest made disposable. #DisabilityJustice #WelfareReform

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity you can use:

https://t.co/E8QB6EDi9o

Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇 https://t.co/d12DjWUFMS

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else.

A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

[Disabled Academic Collective @DisabledAcadem]

I NEED you to care about disability on your campus, because headlines are calling for people with disabilities to: lose access to education, lose access to heslthcare, lose access to welfare, be forcibly sterilized. 1/3

[Lucy Webster @Lucy_Webster_]

Leadbeater repeatedly told me and other opponents of assisted dying that the bill's judicial oversight requirements made it the safest in the world

Now she's scrapped them

MPs need to vote down this dangerous nonsense of a bill

https://t.co/8dvXDq5ll7

[Disability News Service @johnpringdns]

Disabled man self-harms in public and dies after losing #PIP, but #DWP silent on 30 years of safeguarding failures
https://t.co/xDvZxgLu9d

[Emine Gurbuz (she/her) @e_mine_gurbuz]

Recruiting autistic university students to fill a 1-hour questionnaire about their support experiences at university.

Please scan the QR code or directly email at [email protected] to know more about the study and participate! Please RT @UoP_CIDD

[Dr Anna Stenning @anna_stenning]

@nomadic_symptom @LouiseCreechan @BergenMar @BloomsburyAcad https://t.co/2ZEgury7Pb

[Stuart Murray @smurrayleeds]

Our @itdfproject issue is now the current @MedHums_BMJ publication. It's a wonderful collection of approaches to disability, technology and the future and I'm proud that so many contributors are disabled non-academics and recognised here as researchers.

https://t.co/LqtZAs6idg

[Dr Anna Stenning @anna_stenning]

@owenjonesjourno I recommend getting a referral to an gastroenterologist because it could take some time to figure out what is going on (I've had recent personal experience of this). I also recommend asking for blood tests and stool pathogen tests including h pylori.

[DisabilityMatters @DisMatters]

In this symposia, we ask the question:

How does your area of research engage with disability in the geopolitical south and challenge dominant epistemologies and paradigms of disability?

[Dr Anna Stenning @anna_stenning]

@Camelgod3 Rheumatology is currently seeing patients from last August so could be a while before I find out. I struggle with how inconsistent care is - I've been stuck in the middle of 'it's all mechanical' and 'it's inflammation' between consultants. I get blue badge but no mobility PIP.

[Dr Anna Stenning @anna_stenning]

I have osteoarthritis and have been told I have inflammatory arthritis and hypermobility. I've had to make many adjustments to my life. If you have arthritis, what do you wish other people knew about it but don't? And what changes would you like to happen around care and support?

[Dr Anna Stenning @anna_stenning]

@Camelgod3 Agreed! I've tried a first DMARD but was struggling to function and had Covid three times. They wanted to try a second DMARd before biologics. I then went on Celacoxib for a while until I had stomach issues. I've had my first joint replacement and want to avoid too much of that.

[Dr Anna Stenning @anna_stenning]

https://t.co/UImK716Tfa