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Cate Bailey

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She/they, sometimes psychiatrist in East London, researcher, reader, Medact member, interested in FND, abolition, epistemic, health and disability justice ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿ‰

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Post image 23.06.2025 14:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The BMA said NO to Palantir today!

23.06.2025 14:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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๐ŸšจURGENT: 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/

09.06.2025 16:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68    ๐Ÿ” 54    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Nearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced into severe hardship if UK government goes ahead with cuts to social security | Trussell Hundreds of thousands of people will be pushed into severe hardship if government goes ahead with โ€˜cruelโ€™ cuts to disability payments.

www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...

09.06.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Image 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.

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. 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. 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.

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 Triesteโ€™s 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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People talk about โ€œbenefits cultureโ€ like itโ€™s some scam.
You know what the real scandal is?
That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove youโ€™re disabled again and again just to survive.
Labour were supposed to be better, not worse.
#TakingThePIP

01.06.2025 07:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 119    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising Join us for a day of action and workshops to resist Prevent. Co-hosted by Amnesty, Liberty, Maslaha, MedAct, No More Exclusions and RSI.

Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising ๐Ÿ’ฅ๐Ÿ“ฃ

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
๐Ÿ“ 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...

04.06.2025 08:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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โ€œThe 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...

23.05.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Equality watchdog must investigate โ€˜urgent threatโ€™ posed by Labour policies, say DPOs More than 50 disabled peopleโ€™s organisations (DPOs) have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the โ€œurgent threatโ€ to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new Laboโ€ฆ

More than 50 disabled peopleโ€™s organisations have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the โ€œurgent threatโ€ to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new #Labour government.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/equality-wat...

22.05.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Over 100 Disabled People's Mass Lobby of MPs to Resist Benefit Cuts

๐ŸšจBREAKING NEWS๐Ÿšจ

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 more๐Ÿ‘‡
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...

22.05.2025 14:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 47    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Petition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy The DWP Green Paper Pathways to Work proposes what we think are devastating cuts to disability benefits. We think the Government must drop these proposals and instead begin a process of co-production ...

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...

14.05.2025 10:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 10    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Disability Is Not a Separate Category of Personhood The disabled experience is increasingly visible in the artworld yet an ableist political landscape is constantly on the attack. This affects us all

"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...

22.05.2025 13:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Elbit Systems: war criminals and genocidaires face financial woes โ€œAn unfortunate tendency to crashโ€

Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!

BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israelโ€™s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.

Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo

22.05.2025 10:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 161    ๐Ÿ” 85    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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I will not resile from difficult welfare decisions, says Kendall The work and pensions secretary says welfare changes are

โ€œresileโ€โ€ฆ..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

21.05.2025 15:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Open letter (text also available at the link)

Open letter (text also available at the link)

Open letter part 2

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

21.05.2025 13:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 345    ๐Ÿ” 139    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Versus Versus: anthology of 100 disabled poets that demands to be heard - Disability Arts Online Richard Downes reviews Versus Versus an anthology of 100 poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent poets, edited by writer, editor and disability advocate Rachael Boast.

'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...

19.05.2025 14:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It 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

It 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...

19.05.2025 09:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 34    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Starmerโ€™s Big Tech lobbying problem Palantir is not just selling softwareโ€”itโ€™s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control, writes Foxglove's Rosa Curling.

๐Ÿ”ดPalantir is not just selling softwareโ€”itโ€™s 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...

17.05.2025 09:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 492    ๐Ÿ” 309    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24

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

04.04.2025 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 35    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿšจ #SpringStatement 2025: Austerity 2.0 unleashed - our NHS & health will suffer ๐Ÿšจ

Todayโ€™s budget confirms the government is making a dangerous political & economic miscalculation. Rather than taxing the super-rich, theyโ€™re targeting societyโ€™s most vulnerable.

A thread ๐Ÿงตโ€ฆ

26.03.2025 13:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 38    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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