@drcatebailey.bsky.social
She/they, sometimes psychiatrist in East London, researcher, reader, Medact member, interested in FND, abolition, epistemic, health and disability justice ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐
The BMA said NO to Palantir today!
23.06.2025 14:33 โ ๐ 47 ๐ 18 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4๐จURGENT: write to your MP - help release the Madleen crew now!
Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a
@GazaFFlotilla
boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board.
Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/
This may be of interest, please feel free to share @medicinered.bsky.social @medact.bsky.social @nsunnews.bsky.social @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social @stopoxevision.bsky.social
09.06.2025 12:53 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London.
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Includes asking delegates to bring a small object, image or text reflecting your experience of mental health and/or care.
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Details of who will be visiting and the discussions around the radical mental health ecology of Trieste. Event open to all service users, survivors, professionals, practitioners and anyone involved in mental health. With free vegan, gluten free lunch.
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Image of the Trieste yellow building.
The Mental Health & Social Justice Network are organising a meeting with service users and workers involved in Triesteโs Mental Health ecology in London this Saturday 14/6/25. All welcome to come and discuss the radical, liberatory possibilities. Free registration: lu.ma/uoecy4jz?loc...
09.06.2025 12:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0People talk about โbenefits cultureโ like itโs some scam.
You know what the real scandal is?
That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove youโre disabled again and again just to survive.
Labour were supposed to be better, not worse.
#TakingThePIP
Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising ๐ฅ๐ฃ
๐๏ธ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
๐ The Advocacy Academy, London
Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty โฌ๏ธ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...
โThe first step is to strip away the concept of heroism, perfectionism and rescue. Solidarity is a relationship of error, of small steps, of building for the future.โ
Brilliant ep @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social Sarah Schulman
endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...
More than 50 disabled peopleโs organisations have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the โurgent threatโ to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new #Labour government.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/equality-wat...
๐จBREAKING NEWS๐จ
Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade.
Read more๐
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...
The DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper proposes cuts to disability benefits we believe would be devastating. One of the organisations we work with, @gmcdp.bsky.social, has created a petition, calling on the Government to drop these proposals.
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
"Most people will be disabled at some point in their life. Welfare is one way of recognising everyone has needs, that all of us live interdependently rather than independently."
Alice Hattrick's brilliant essay on ableism, art and the latest attacks on disabled people.
artreview.com/disability-i...
Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israelโs genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Open letter (text also available at the link)
Open letter part 2
Disabled people and their organisations MUST be fully involved in reviews of: WCA, PIP assessment process, Safeguarding, employer & employee support & Access to Work.
Sign our open letter now: buff.ly/TJI8pM6
#ItsTimeForInclusion
Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain.
21.05.2025 03:49 โ ๐ 345 ๐ 139 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 15'I think this is one of the main remits here โ a dialogue between the speaker and the listener, the reader and the writer, the disabled and the non-disabled.โ โ Richard Downes, @disabilityarts.bsky.social, on @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus.
disabilityarts.online/magazine/rev...
This was (as always) a fantastic and timely episode. Made me think deeply about the injustices of labour in healthcare and the artificial and unhelpful capital-driven divide between those who give and receive care. Highly recommended for anyone interested in health justice.
19.05.2025 13:01 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It was Youth Demand who tried to disrupt genocidal Israel's Eurovision performance
Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
๐ดPalantir is not just selling softwareโitโs selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
To say the least, I am extremely concerned by the treatment of Dr. Hart. These concerns include:
1. The 12 months immediate prison sentence he received, for participating in peaceful environmental protest
๐จ #SpringStatement 2025: Austerity 2.0 unleashed - our NHS & health will suffer ๐จ
Todayโs budget confirms the government is making a dangerous political & economic miscalculation. Rather than taxing the super-rich, theyโre targeting societyโs most vulnerable.
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