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hyena in petticoats
November 16, 2020 - by gobscureonline exhibition / screening / album - from 19 nov, 7pm commissioned by together 2020 disability history month festival - film, online exhibition, e-zine of art / writing / activities because mary wollstonecraft wz bad, rad, bi, mutha, internationalist, feminist before the word, a writer & mad - she, disabilities included ...
Access Contextualised
November 11, 2020 - by Richard DownesA collection of 17 poems compiled as a contribution to UK Disability History Month. The compilation seeks to broaden the brush usually applied to access. Whilst access remains a key issue it has to be seen, in my opinion, only as a part of wider issues derived from approaches to experience ...
Juice; Slap
November 6, 2020 - by Richard DownesFor Yoko’s Body Sound Tape Piece. Yoko your body sounds are kinder than mine, more curious too, though I have some good ones. Here I revisit a one off incident (well, twice is more than enough really) before going back to the violence of special school and then saving a concern for ...
Crippen: Government was ‘reckless and negligent’ in approach to social care, say MPs
September 30, 2020 - by CrippenThe government has been accused by MPs of a “reckless and negligent” approach to the social care sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Disability Arts Online · Government ...
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 ...
Crippen hears about a coronavirus grant for disabled people who cannot return to work
September 20, 2020 - by CrippenMinister for Disabled People, Health and Work Justin Tomlinson has finally emerged from wherever he’s been hiding to announce a funding initiative for those disabled people who are unable to return to their place of work and ...
Crippen discovers that the DWP loses more money through incompetence than through fraud!
September 16, 2020 - by CrippenOur friend at Black Isle Media, Alex Tiffin, editor of the Universal Credit Sufferers site has written an impressive article which reveals the true story behind the question of benefit fraud.
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Speaking with some fellow Crips the other day, I was surprised to hear that some activists still regard the late Bert Massie as a bit of a turn coat.
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Crippen remembers Bert Massie
September 14, 2020 - by Crippen
3 countries, 3 timelines, 5 studios, 5 creatives, just exactly how are we creating Deluge?
September 14, 2020 - by DelugeWhen we embarked on our Deluge creation, we were all conscious that we were going on an exploratory vibrant journey together. I will admit that at times the process of this exploration is echoing the actual themes of the work we are attempting to create. Sometimes we are all caught ...
Crippen and discriminatory hospital visiting policy
September 7, 2020 - by CrippenFleur Perry, disabled journalist and campaigner, has been fighting since April of this year to change NHS hospital visitors policy which discriminates against disabled people. Disability Arts Online ·