Linda Spurdle

5 | The Community | The Quilt

Earlier this year I helped to organise the Birmingham workshop for the Queer Britain and Little Nell project to create a LGBTQ+ oral histories from across the UK. Great to see the podcasts are now available, and to get a thank you!
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Here at BOM, we love working with schools to encourage more inclusivity in STEM education. One of our programmes is Engineering Inclusive Futures - designed for young disabled people at the forefront. Engineering Inclusive Futures is supported by Millennium Point Trust.

Sunday Mail front page: Starmer declares war on benefits Britain

Just incredibly bleak that when a Labour government is finally in power, disabled people still have to wake up to front pages calling them a blight on society.

"Gathering of strangers" by Nathan Coley is an illuminated artwork above the park entrance of the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester. I thought it was very welcoming. The gathering together of strangers for art, music, theatre, etc is a wonderful thing. Hope Bluesky will be the same!

Do you feel irritation or even a sense of foreboding from AI prompting to polish what you have to say? Even asking to write something for you! Thinking today I may go old school, back to pen & paper, maybe even get a typewriter! I'm not anti-AI, I just want time alone with my brain!

Finally here! What took me so long?