daneka etchells

Is the Timms Review of disability benefit PIP just a tick-box exercise? Mikey Erhardt at Disability Rights UK writes about why the Stephen Timms review of PIP cannot be used as a smokescreen for cuts.

Mikey Erhardt, policy lead at @disrightsuk.bsky.social, wrote for @bigissue.com about why the Stephen Timms review of the personal independence payment (PIP) must be used to ensure genuine and positive change for disabled people.

www.bigissue.com/opinion/timm...

hello!!! would love to swap some book recs?

where my literary fiction lovers at x

i have so so so so so so much to say about this archetype thank you for putting so much of it into words

Quirky Disabled Characters on playing to the abled and running afoul of good intentions

today in pocket theatre i wrote about quirky disabled characters.
open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology.

And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.

- Carl Sagan

the concurrent annual “edinburgh fringe is a playground for the financially privileged” post

the annual “if you can’t afford to go to edinburgh as an artist or a punter it doesn’t make you less” post

trying to get on with your life when having endo/adeno is graft man. hiding it to keep a roof over your head.

chronic pain is really no joke. also the crap immunity, the fatigue, the ache… list goes on and on and so does life i guess. floating rock summat bout resilience summat else bout []

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO,

"The 2.1 million people trapped in the war zone that is Gaza are facing yet another killer on top of bombs and bullets"

"Starvation"

A sudden dramatic shift in the BBC's coverage.

Why?

Because everybody knows that the utter calamity engulfing Gaza is going to be impossible to hide.

For the Guilty Men of the media: you all had ample warning for 21 months!

You did this! Everything that now happens is on you.

post busy period flare up loading

sometimes i forget how physically disabled i am until it comes to post-show mixing and im stood like a flamingo, accidentally kicking people cos i can’t stand up lol and then waking up in agony the next day

i got that DOG DOG DOG in me

Support Mitie Workers at Sellafield: Demand Fair Pay Now! Outsourced Mitie workers at Sellafield are fighting for fair pay, while their CEO earns £14.7 million - 575 times the average worker's salary! Can you sign the worker's petition?

protect the workers of Sellafield

The confrontation at Orgreave: a visual timeline In the early summer of 1984, 8,000 miners and supporters gathered to picket a coke works in South Yorkshire. They were met by a force of 6,000 police officers

The confrontation at Orgreave: a visual timeline

Government launches Orgreave inquiry, 40 years after clashes at miners’ strike Move follows decades of campaigning over violent policing and collapsed prosecutions at South Yorkshire coking plant

40 years too late. but hoping for justice.

industries that speak progressive but are deeply conservative

At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food Witnesses say scenes near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs in the south of the territory resembled a massacre At least 32 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Saturday morning when Israeli troops opened fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking food from two aid distribution hubs in southern Gaza, according to witnesses and hospital officials. People on the scene described it as “a massacre”, and claimed Israel Defense Forces fired “indiscriminately” at the groups of Palestinians – reported to be mostly young men – who were making their way towards the hubs run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Continue reading...

At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food

Just to say: we should absolutely be dragging Reform for this.

Arguably their most senior elected official is a straight up climate change denier. Needs to be called out and pushed back on. Hard.

dear theatre, its end times. do the new plays, while we are still here. let go of the revivals.

i’m at that point where the possibility of an evening feels longer

Rachel Reeves has to go

Warning about Lucy Harrison Casting Equity is warning members not to engage with or accept new work through Lucy Harrison Casting as concerns over liquidation and non-payment mount.

⚠️IMPORTANT CASTING NEWS:

Equity is warning members not to engage with or accept new work through Lucy Harrison Casting (LHC) due to concerns over liquidation & non-payment.

For full details or if you're an member who wants to contact us about LHC see: Tinyurl.com/EquityLHC

creative fulfilment ughhhh there’s nowt like it

"There are jobs out there for disabled people and we are supporting them into work, to improve their life chances and quality of life. We are the party of work creation as well as wealth creation"
Liz Kendall

you can’t get welfare disability benefits for anything self certified. you need to have medical paperwork and proof otherwise you don’t qualify. you need diagnostic and treatment pathway paperwork, doctors letters, medical records, history paper trail.

kemi badenoch is spreading vicious lies.

she isn’t disabled though is she. don’t rationalise her heinous attitude and despicable behaviour as mental disability. that’s ableist as hell.

my new shakti mat is changing my chronic pain girly life wow wow wow