Showing posts with label Wearside. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wearside. Show all posts
Wednesday, 28 August 2019

Inspiration Porn

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Inspiration porn is a term you may have heard or read at some point from the disabled community or Pc “abled-bodied”….It basically means...
Wednesday, 21 August 2019

BULLYING

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I thought to be a disabled child and in mainstream school was bad during the ’70s and ’80s before the Equality Act 2010 and its predecess...
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Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Access

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“Access denied!” That’s what it often feels like the world is saying to me when it is impossible or complicated to use buildings, ser...
Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Transport

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Using public transport as someone who is not just disabled but a wheelchair user is daunting. Taxis, buses, trains all a potential p...
Saturday, 11 May 2019

THE DAY THE WORLD NEVER CHANGED

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A lot happened since I last sat down to write anything. The idea had been to start doing news pieces still around disability and mental h...
Wednesday, 3 May 2017

Home truths – despair settles in

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It’s been a while, dad has been moved into a care home due to his dementia getting worse and then was rushed into hospital where we were t...
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Saturday, 11 February 2017

Disabled Access vs Disable friendly - there is a difference.

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There are times when you just get so fed up of trying to fit in to peoples boxes or ideas of what being disabled is supposed to look like,...
Tuesday, 23 August 2016

Discrimination I tick all the boxes aren’t I lucky?

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I have often heard the word “discrimination” being bandied about, a lot, in the last ten to fifteen years. I never saw myself as being di...
Sunday, 5 June 2016

Me before you ? Are disabled lives worth less? #liveboldly

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So there has been a lot of controversy over the new film by Warner Bros “Me before you”, especially over the pond. I haven’t seen anything...
Sunday, 20 March 2016

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS

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Nearly at the end of March already, who would believe it. I still maintain that this year will be my year for things to work and the last t...
Sunday, 31 January 2016

IS THIS THE LONGEST AND WORST JANUARY EVER?

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Being an amputee one of the biggest issues I have apart from not having access to places is the weather. I wasn't steady on my feet bef...
Sunday, 24 January 2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR !... CAN I START AGAIN?

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January is the same every year. No money , nothing to look forward to, dark nights, grey days etc etc. But people every where tend to make ...