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Here is a photo of my husband with the Tesco Delivery Man, in theory, as I am home shielding, I shouldn’t have been sleeping in the same bed as him, or enjoying baths together, or indeed eating together, for however many weeks it has been. Lord Baden Powell’s statue has come down. My dad would be ...
An alliance of disabled people working across the UK creative industries have come together to campaign for an inclusive cultural recovery following the Covid 19 pandemic. Called ‘We shall not be removed’, this is an emergency response led by disabled people for disabled people working across the UK’s creative industries. Designed as a forum to advocate, ...
some Killer Mike here: Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike and El-P Talk Police, Rioting, White Privilege and ‘RTJ4’ some Audrey Lorde here: The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House much love&rage to yu's all
I've been floating in the space named isolation. Floating with no breeze, no current, to inspire resistance. Nothing to motivate vague tentacles of curiosity to drop anchor. To stay. My words withdraw in protective whorls of introspection, become individual letters, fonts, images. My images dissolve into atoms of ink, flavours of paper. Writing these blogs produces small ...
Do you ever look at a hand-knit jumper, or any knitting really and just feel totally blown away by the idea that it’s just one long piece of string? I do all the time. Well, not all the time, I’d never get anything done. I am blown away by it occasionally when I see some ...
Violence, we don't really talk about it, which ones we support, which ones we don't. The toppling of the Edward Colston statue has upset some people, they cite the money he gave to Bristol and minimise the murders of his slave trading. Why not have a statue of Ian Brady, he actually killed less people ...
Found this on a facebook memory, adapted it for a post card. Protect the notes you throw away. Make something with them. Learn you are a poet.Words On A Post Card; From the BirdsRecent readingsFirst a crow flew fastlyThen a nightingale 12 months on Then you wrote your flight of fancySo we go reading on4th ...
This poem is related to the Polish poet Milosz's poem Song on the End of the World and the Shakers dance on the same subject. It’s not the end of the world, you know It’s not the end of the world, you know said my mother as she stuck a plaster on my knee. It is – it’s bleeding ...
Keir Starmer will need to address a series of pledges that he made to disabled people during his successful campaign to replace Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. During his leadership campaign Keir Starmer called for “radical action” on social care with the introduction of free social care and a legal right to independent living. He also backed ...
Disabled activist and advocate for disabled asylum seekers, Manjeet Kaur has died at her home in Manchester. Manjeet was involved in many campaigns around the country. Ellen Clifford from DPAC recalls “the first time I met Manjeet was at a national anti-bedroom tax conference in London. She had come down with campaign groups from the greater ...
