Blog - Mental Health
Can you tell me Why?
November 11, 2020 - by Bryony ParsonsCan you tell me why? Don't you remember me? No matter how hard I try, I just can't foresee. I think I have lost my mind, I forget the simplest of things, Can you tell me why? I can't find my cup of tea. I feel lost and confused, I can't remember your name, Can you tell me why? I can't ...
The Landscapes of my Brain at neXus Exhibition 2020
November 1, 2020 - by Yvonne J FosterFurther adventures into the landscape of my brain... When the clutter in my head becomes so noisy that I can’t function, I reach for a black pen and I draw. Afterwards my brain begins to calm, leaving me able to think a little clearer. Rather than a single line, I use ...
Crippen hears about people with Autism experiencing undignified and inhuman care
October 30, 2020 - by CrippenOnce again, it has fallen to the Disability News Service (DNS) to expose how disabled people are still being treated throughout mental health units in England.
Disability Arts Online ·
What a few weeks. Where shall I begin? Insomnia. Two weeks of waking up two hours after I went to sleep, then spending the rest of the night thinking, putting two and two together to make four, four and four together to make exactly eight, a hundred and a hundred,
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Tesco Delivery Man and I’m still in my dressing gown. What is going on?
October 20, 2020 - by Liz Bentley
different battle same war 4: learning to soar with Dave Toole
October 19, 2020 - by gobscureDisability Arts Online · different battle same war 4: learning to soar with Dave Toole we had intended to record a ...
Crippen pays tribute to the irreplaceable Sian Vasey
October 18, 2020 - by CrippenDisabled activists have paid tribute this week to Sian Vasey – a much-loved, “multi-layered activist” who played a “pivotal role” in the disabled people’s movement for more than 40 years – who died last week.
a punk is literally a smoulder-stick used to light fireworks, Serj Tankians talking armenia (Elif Shafaks big system of a down fan and she's amazing new words out), while napalm deaths a bellyful of salt and spleen in ever-howl against injustice powerful as ever, meanwhile 'playlist curators' chat 'how death
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zoonpolitikon (political-animal) – new album from gobscure
October 13, 2020 - by gobscure
Crippen reports on an action by disabled artist and activist Dolly Sen
October 5, 2020 - by CrippenOur friend and colleague Dolly Sen has taken her protest out on the streets again and this time it’s the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that comes under her critical scrutiny. Disability Arts Online · ...
Section 136 applied to the Department of Work and Pensions
September 23, 2020 - by Dolly SenToday I assessed & sectioned the DWP head office, Caxton House, Tothill Street, Westminster, London - dressed in a doctor’s coat, armed with a large prescription for compassion, with friends. I checked if the DWP has a heartbeat and couldn't find one. I then prescribed the DWP a prescription with a ...
The System Is SIC K
September 23, 2020 - by Vince LawsWhen Covid-19 threatened to halt their next play, Wakefield based theatre group, Red Shed Players, turned the script into a film, titled SIC K. The docu-drama is based on interviews and encounters with sick and disabled people who have struggled to claim benefits due to the torturous system enforced by ...