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“Writing from bed is a time-honored disabled way of being an activist and a cultural worker. It’s one the mainstream doesn’t often acknowledge but whose lineage stretches from Frida Kahlo painting in bed to Grace Lee Boggs writing in her wheelchair age 98.” - Piepzna-Samarasinha

It’ll kick off in London today cos no one knows what to do when it gets above 28 and the daily mail will call it ‘lawless London’ when most of what we need is lollies.

Biggest threat to trauma therapy in the UK right now? PIP cuts & tighter rules. Tens of thousands with PTSD/CPTSD rely on PIP to fund private therapy — NHS waits are years long. Respond to the Timms Review consultation by 28 May or many will lose access. tinyurl.com/mrk8hy4m

Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment: call for evidencetinyurl.com

Trauma not merely as fear or horror, but as chronic assault on reality-testing, credibility, embodiment, autonomy, and social legibility.

If you can, please say hello to the security guard at your local supermarket. There's a new one at mine who smiles so sweetly and looks genuinely pleased to see everyone. The last one did too -before month on month of being barely acknowledged in the inhumane modern workplace wore him into despair.

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

🚨Clinicians - The PIP Review closes on Thursday. We must improve PIP and protect existing rights after fifteen years of relentless attacks on disabled people. Fill in the form: tinyurl.com/5f4xfe5w Email: timmsreview.callforevidence@dwp.gov.uk Sign the professional letter: tinyurl.com/37nrsmxx

Timms Review of Personal Independence Payment: call for evidencetinyurl.com

Just a reminder: you are NOT unusual, weird, or unlovable if you have: - no one to see on Christmas Day, - no presents, or - no contactable relatives. Very few people live the idealised version on TV. Those of us who live differently—whether by choice or trauma—matter as much.

Going for my Christmas Day swim at the lido — or about to embark on a deep-sea fishing mission in the Arctic? You decide.

Sending solidarity and love to everyone in the Mad/traumatised/neurodivergent community in pain or lonely tonight x

Request #8538 to @bsky.app: I would love to use Bluesky regularly, but I can’t. Why? No locked/private accounts. This isn’t a nice-to-have feature. It’s a safety essential that excludes many in Mad and Disabled communities who face real risks posting publicly. Please sort this Out.

Work is not a health outcome. It’s a social determinant — and sometimes a damaging one. Putting DWP work coaches in GP surgeries turns healthcare into a branch of welfare policing.

“Yeah but I saw on the internet that if you fill out a form you get a free BMW!” I’m sure you did, babe. I also saw on the internet that I can make tens of millions from a timeshare pyramid scheme.

Personally, I think “We’re all people with lived experience” is just the ableist cousin of “we all have mental health.” It takes a phrase born to centre marginalised voices and uses it to erase the difference that made it necessary in the first place. But then I'm moody.

Work coaches do not belong in GP surgeries.

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Silly psy cartoon for the weekend!

Far more troubled by #AngelaRayner’s betrayal of millions of disabled people than where her primary residence is, to be honest.

London, just now.