Sorrel

🎉 Meet Aryam! Aroace + queer Kuwaiti refugee, writer, poet + community organiser with a focus on Domestic Violence + decoloniality.
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I love my job, but is biting my tongue through the "disability awareness" part of the EDI training just something I have to do now?

They're making the sunsets transgender!

Map lovers, may I recommend East Riddlesden Hall? They have an excellent 17th C map of Canaan with annotations from the Old Testament. And they let me use a special torch to read it all.

Wandering round Sir Walter Scott's house and I realised that my entire knowledge of the French and English royal families of, say, 1600 - 1750, is anchored around one woman, Henriette d'Angleterre. A win for feminism I think.

Incredibly cool username

With respect, you're a man. But I'm very glad you've been well cared for

It is incredibly depressing how much racism and sexism and ableism is baked into every medical interaction

An array of postcards featuring lino print images of Disabled Christ fanned out on a wooden bench

a lino print of Blind Christ leading a sighted disciple through the fog, printed in dark blue ink on white paper

Postcards and prints are available!

Postcards from @newcastlecathedral and online

Original prints available online via my website

www.wobblygoose.com

Sadly it isn't possible to ship to the EU at present due to the new regulations

I bought a Merton College Oxford jumper for the express purpose of wearing to medical appointments. Consultants have frequently taken me more seriously after I've mentioned studying there.

If one part suffers, the other parts suffer with it: An update on the SCM Disability Campaigns Group.

"In SCM we have many disabled members, as well as members who are carers. We are also, as a movement, inspired to work for social justice. To this end, we recently created a Disability Rights Campaign group. Our original aim for the group was to campaign against the PIP and Universal Credit bill that was proposed to significantly reduce support available to disabled people, but I hope that we can continue to work as a group to support each other and to work on other causes as they come up." At the bottom of the page are two simple illustrations, one showing a brown woman with a prosthetic leg pushing another brown woman in a wheelchair. The other illustration shows two pale yellow people using a megaphone and shaking their fists.

"Over the last few months, before the now-renamed Universal Credit bill was passed, we worked together to write two open letters, to Liz Kendall (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) and Rachel Reeves (Chancellor of the Exchequer). We explained our concerns about the Green Paper released in advance of the bill, and our objections to the proposed bill itself, in both practical and faith-based terms. We also shared some personal stories from members regarding how the proposed cuts would affect us." Two illustrations show a "hidden disabilities" lanyard, and two pale pink people holding a placard and a megaphone. They look to be on a protest.

We are glad that the small part we played in the overall campaign against the cuts has contributed to the changes to PIP being removed from the bill and set to be reviewed. However, we are disappointed and concerned that the cuts for new disabled claimants of Universal Credit were passed, as this will seriously impact some of the most vulnerable disabled people and families in our society. Personally, I’m very glad that we have been able to bring this campaign group together, and I hope we will continue to live out our faith through working to support each other and disabled people more generally. Sorrel - SCM Member

Swipe for an update on our Disability Campaign group from SCM Member Sorrel! ➡️

If you're a student who is passionate about social justice, DM us to join our Disability Rights Campaign WhatsApp 💌

What does community mean to you? 🤔

Mother: I've never known anyone have as much admin to do as you!
Me, mentally totting up tasks: mm it's called being disabled

What a wonderful moment in #Synod .The terrible "Issues in Human Sexuality" document has been consigned to the recycling bin with huge support across the Synod, in all Houses and constituencies. Glimmers of hope.

Must be a music student room!

Thanks!

Altar in a little wood panelled chapel, with a beautiful painted mural of countryside hills and angels behind

And by writing a loving note to any queers unfortunate enough to read the incredibly homophobic and ableist "faith healing" book on the prayer table I found in this gorgeous innocent-looking little chapel

Rainy Cumbria hills. Sorrel is in their powerchair with their back to the camera, waterproof hood up, looking at the viewpoint maps of the hills. Probably to no avail, given the mist and general lack of visibility.

After 6 years and many changes, got a 2:i in my BA in French and Spanish from Oxford! Celebrated with a very very soggy hike

Enjoying reverting to home education pre-exam syllabi. Today I've done German grammar, piano (hymn practice), recorder practice, and started a French novel that nobody is expecting me to write an essay about

I think The River at Green Knowe is my favourite of the Green Knowe books. Breathtaking descriptions of the Cambridgeshire countryside with just the right amount of magic

Sink is clean though!

Been a while since painsomnia. My crime? Getting too invested in scrubbing the sink and standing for wayyy too long

If I didn't already have a job next year I'd definitely be applying - SCM is a wonderful organisation and the faith in action worker will do great work supporting progressive Christian students in the UK

A photo of staff member Phoebe at Greenbelt last year holding an SCM banner and smiling at the camera.

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In which case, Tiffany Hammond A Day With No Words (re-release in Nov I think) ; all three picture books from the Catchpoles and their anthology ed. w/ Jen Campbell, Owning It; the Rosie Jones edie eckhart books. I collect children's books by disabled authors with disabled characters!

In the meantime, At The Gates by Naomi Lawson Jacobs @naomijacobs.bsky.social and Emily Richards

Do they have to be books for grown ups?

Welfare reform bill aka terrifying and unfair cuts for disabled ppl passed to committee stage, and on the 1st of Disability Pride Month no less. Possibly with concessions on the 4 point rule, but none of that is actually on paper, just promised. Aaaarghhhhhhh.

new accessibility legislation just dropped (into force)

And currently enjoying Mark Russ' The Spirit of Freedom in order to write a book review for Movement mag, because apparently I cannot function without a reading list and Tasks