Dolly Sen

YouTube video by Disability Arts Online Journeys into Arts with Dolly Sen

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Revell Dixon interviews me for Disability Arts Online in this video

‘Wael's last wish': Man detained by ICE denied release for son’s funeral Maher Tarabishi's ailing son Wael died as he sat in a detention facility. His family says ICE is responsible.

Maher Tarabishi’s ailing son Wael died as he sat in a detention facility. His family says ICE is responsible.

I have started a on-line shop to sell some of my art on things like posters, bags, clocks, duvets, t-shirts on go to: www.redbubble.com/people/Dolly...

DMS 69: Art Activism as Rebellion Against Psychiatric Authority Dolly Sen dismantles psychiatric authority through art activism, exposing the politics of diagnosis and reclaiming the narrative of madness.

There is a piece on my art and activism in the medical humanities magazine The Polyphony, focussing on my 2017 book 'DSM 69'.

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my last visit to the DWP where I dressed as the devil to congratulate the Dept of Work and Pensions on their evil.
#DWPcutsmakemesick #welfarenotwarfare #benefitcutskill

Watchdog dismisses DWP’s description of DNS editor as ‘vengeful’ and ‘vexatious’ for asking to see deaths email The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain informatio…

The information commissioner has dismissed attempts by the Department for Work and Pensions to describe a disabled journalist as “vengeful” and “vexatious” after he tried to obtain information about its years of safeguarding failings.
#DWP
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Dolly Sen, with short dark hair and a black cape is pasting some hazard taoe saying: 'Crime Scene - Do Not Enter' onto the DWP sign outside the HQ of the DWP

Dolly, a brown skinned woman with short dark hair is wearing some black devil horns. Her tattooed arms are up in the air, and she is wearing a red to and trousers. Her expression is intentful

On Nov 3rd, myself, Joy Dove and other activist declared the DWP HQ building in London a crime scene. I also dressed up as the devil to ‘congratulate’ the workers coming in and out for their cruel and evil work. Just simply protesting that life is not a cost to cut.

The One Show - 29/09/2025 Sir Gary Oldman and Nick Knowles join Alex and Roman on the sofa. Plus, after reaching World Cup glory, England’s Red Roses Zoe Aldcroft, Rosie Galligan and Zoe Harrison are in the studio.

I was on bbc's The One Show last night talking about my art commission from Hospital Rooms to create a sculpture along with other artists for Hellesdon Hospital www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

that'll do 😁

aww thank you very much, do I get a puppy?

Disabled people of colour speak of terror and safety fears after mass far-right protest Disabled people of colour say last weekend’s “horrific” far-right protest in London has left them feeling terrified and unsafe. Saturday’s protest was supposedly aimed at “free speech” but most of …

was interviewed by @johnpring.bsky.social for Disability News Serivce about my response to the far right gathering last weekend, and my disappointment that racist disabled people don't see they will be victims of fascism too
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Lorina Bulwer | by Dolly Sen Lorina Bulwer is Dolly Sen's polemical exploration of madness, material, and the life of Lorina Bulwer: a needleworker incarcerated in the...

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Got this lovely @dollysen.bsky.social book about Lorina Bulwer, workhouse captive, after her life turned. She sewed sheets & scraps of cloth into a narrative of her life in text & images. Dolly provides her own narrative about Lorina's life & madness.

Dear Lorina (Anthology) Dear Lorina is an anthology of creative writing from participants in local artist Dolly Sen's 2025 project on the legacy of Lorina Bulwer: a...

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buy this book of words by rageful women, inspired by Lorina Bulwer, for only £2.50

a poster in white, beiges and grey with collaged images are behind the text saying: Social Frabric, Material Conditions and Practices of Resistence. An online discussion, zoom, June 11 2025. There is a qr code to register interest

Will be doing this on weds 11th June, discussing textile art and resistance

Dolly Sen, a brown person with dark hair and tattoo, wearing black jeans and a blue and rainbow coloured tshirt stands in front of 6 long multicoloured embroidered samplers on a white wall

Go see work inspired by the legacy of Lorina Bulwer, the infamous needleworker who embroidered her rage onto samplers. We invite you to meet the rage of women's voices through an updated re-creation of Lorina's famous tapestry reflecting the voices of women in 2025 at Primeyarc in Great Yarmouth!

Rachel Reeves bending down patronisingly to talk to a middle aged wheelchair user, Rachel says: We want to stop your benefits to pay for bombs to make other people disabled

Assisted Suicide / Assisted Joy - DJ 1 - Healing Justice Ldn By Dolly Sen

My piece on assisted suicide but also assisted joy for Healing Justice London

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Disability Film Analysis Tools Disability Action Research Kollective

The British Film Institute have offered to sell my Disability Film Analysis Tools zine in their shop. It is free online here : files.libcom.org/files/2024-0...

"In fact, not only does the market assessment of the value of different forms of work not correspond to popular conceptions of what they actually contribute to society, but there actually seems to be an inverse relation: with few exceptions, the principle seems to be, the more one’s work is seen as socially useful, the more it is recognized as helping others, the less one is likely to be paid for it." . - David Graeber

From the book Bullshit Jobs.

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Transforming UK Social Security: A Call for Compassion and Change The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB) highlight the struggles of navigating the UK

Here to be a resource to those fighting disability benefits cuts, that I was part of.

Research on the benefit system and how the catastrophic effects it has on people with mental health.

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Transforming UK Social Security: A Call for Compassion and Change The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB) highlight the struggles of navigating the UK

📑 Replacing a punitive social security model with one rooted in compassion could save lives. Find out more in this piece by the @kingscsmh.bsky.social's Lived Experience Advisory Board
#CompassionAndChange #CompassionAndChange #SpringStatement

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‘We Must Resist’: UK Welfare Cuts Will Harm Disabled Artists As the Labour government plans to reduce essential support, artists and writers speak out about how the changes will affect them

The art mag Frieze has published a piece by a disabled artist about the proposed benefits cut that includes a couple of my doodlings.

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A disabled art activist has sent a powerful message to Labour over its DWP benefit cuts A disabled art activist has sent a powerful message to Labour over its DWP benefit cuts from Canary on 21 March 2025

A disabled art activist has sent a powerful message to Labour over its DWP benefit cuts

Dolly Sen is sending Labour a clear, and harrowing message that its DWP cuts will lead to countless more deaths of disabled people.
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YouTube video by Dolly Sen Broken Hearts for the DWP - Subtitled version

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I think it is timely to re-share my short documentary on how the DWP is driving disabled people to starvation and suicide. Please share x

YouTube video by Dolly Sen I Want More Disabled Rage

I was commissioned by @dadafest.bsky.social to make a sculpture, and I made one out of charity collecting cans to spell out the word 'RAGE'. I made a film of me making the sculpture and reciting my poem 'We Need More Disabled Rage'

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BREAKING🚨 -We've investigated the financial links between MPs and the private health sector, and can now announce which MP received the highest donation amount from individuals+companies with links to the private health sector between 2023-2025.

It's Wes Streeting. Our Health Secretary. £179,575🚨

YouTube video by Dolly Sen Benefit Cuts Will Kill

My 4 min video on proposed disability benefits cuts as a disabled person who works with the help of PIP, & how this is continuing previous governments' killing of disabled people through brutal DWP systems and policies.

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Three circle Venn diagram, showing: Benefit cuts, Social care crisis, and Assisted dying. With the cumulative intersection being: Disability Democide!

Government Strategy Explained.

Looking ahead to the disability benefits green paper, this essay for @citizensadvice.bsky.social makes the case for a system focused on improving health outcomes.

Co-authors @maddyirose.bsky.social, @victoria-anns.bsky.social & Simon Collerton

We challenge the 5 big falsehoods underpinning cuts…🧵