Blog - Mental Health
Crippen discovers that the transport industry has had yet another exemption from access laws!
January 19, 2021 - by CrippenIt’s got to the stage where when this government hacks off yet another piece of disability-related legislation, there’s not even a tokenistic acknowledgement, never mind any form of protest from opposition parties and those groups and organisations that claim to represent us. In fact, it takes a single disabled activist to ...
Liz, The Great Reset, Prodrome and the Tesco Delivery Man
December 14, 2020 - by Liz BentleyI’ve started a YouTube channel. It’s called Prodrome – The Liz Bentley Show. I love the word prodrome. It means 'an early symptom indicating onset of a disease or illness.' My trainee paramedic niece (who is right now dealing with mainly stroke, heart attack and mental health) told me ...
Crippen researches the Queen’s ‘hidden’ cousins
December 14, 2020 - by CrippenWhilst doing research for a project about the history of disability I came across an interesting fact about the Royal family, in particular about the Queen’s cousins.
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Back in October 2014 The Disability News Service (DNS) revealed the existence of secret Department of Works and Pensions (DWP) reviews into suicides and other deaths and serious incidents.
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For the first time in its history, DaDaFest conducted its festival completely online. Steph Niciu reviews an event from day five of DaDaFest’s Translations – Aidan Moesby’s premiere event for I Was Naked, Smelling of Rain, which took place over Zoom on 1 December.
Before we saw Moesby’s piece, there was
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New to the never ending story of the Black Widow and would like to start from the start. Try here dears. She sits with her back to the wall in a place she calls outside her comfort zone. She is calm in the darkness of the many fussing voices. I
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Disability Arts Online · different battle same war #5 hyena in petticoats
this rants adapted from hyena in petticoats - our ongoing multi-art-form
... Give me serenity,
and grant me calm,
my mind is all a flutter,
and I can't find my identity.
The room is spinning around me,
and my breathing is fast,
give me serenity,
and grant me calm.
I am hot and sweaty,
I can't think straight,
so give me serenity,
and grant me calm. This is the second year running that the National Police Chief’s Council (NPCC) has refused to provide any explanation for why police forces are passing significantly fewer cases of disability hate crime to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
This year has been challenging,
The coronavirus has hit home,
Having to wear masks,
Standing two meters apart.
How long will this go on for?
Being glared at for coughing,
Having to sneeze into your elbow,
waiting for the shops to re-open.
Oh, how I wish life would return back to normal,
No one knows what normal is anymore,
All
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Crippen – DWP again refuses to publish information from secret reviews into benefit-related deaths
December 8, 2020 - by Crippen
I Was Naked, Smelling of Rain
December 7, 2020 - by Steph Niciu
Black Widow 7
December 5, 2020 - by Richard Downes
different battle same war #5: hyena in petticoats
November 24, 2020 - by gobscure
Give me Serenity
November 17, 2020 - by Bryony Parsons
Crippen revisits the subject of disability hate crime
November 16, 2020 - by Crippen
Hope and Pray
November 15, 2020 - by Bryony Parsons