Month: May 2022

Act Now on disability poverty

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Join the Disability Poverty Campaign. Write to your MP using our campaign too. Demand an emergengy uprating of benefits of at least 8% to match inflation

by Joel Lamy

The other day a work colleague told me she had finished at 5pm, instantly fell asleep then woke up just in time to start again the next day.

She has a hidden disability – and her experience is not unique – for many, the need to work full-time leaves them shattered and without the energy to even cook their food, never mind leave the house.

Not only is this an isolating and mentally-draining experience, it also means higher fuel energy usage – a problem when bills are soaring and unlikely to come down any time soon.

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Webinar on disbelief and disregard in healthcare

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Challenging Disbelief and Disregard in relation to Medicine, Chronic Illness and Disability

photo of a stethoscope resting on top of a medical textbook

Free webinar 24th May 1-3pm BST

Chronic Illness Inclusion is jointly hosting a webinar with Dr Bethan Evans and colleagues at Liverpool University’s Centre of Health, Medical and Environmental Humanities.

This event brings together academics and activists working in relation to disbelief and disregard in medicine, chronic illness and disability. It will focus in paticular on the relationship between disbelief/disregard and energy, understood in two ways: first in relation to chronic illness/disability that involves energy limitation, and secondly in relation to the ways in which activism and advocacy in relation to medicine, chronic illness and disability takes, and depletes, energy.

The event will involve two roundtable discussions, with opportunities for the audience to ask questions.

Organised by: Dr Bethan Evans, Catherine Hale and Alison Allam (Chronic Illness Inclusion), Dr. Lioba Hirsch and Dr Morag Rose (University of Liverpool), Dr Ana Bê Peirera (Liverpool Hope University).

Speakers include (in addition to the organisers):

Brianne Benness (No End in Sight),

Dzifa Afonu (Healing Justice London),

Leonora Gunn (University of Leeds and Leeds Disabled People’s Organisation),

Katherine Cheston (Durham University),

Aaliyah Shaikh (City University, London),

Dr Emma Sheppard (Coventry University)

Aleyah Babb-Benjamin (National Voices),

Jenny Ceolta-Smith (Long Covid Support).

Accessibility

Recorded presentations from speakers will be made available ahead of the event for people to watch at their own pace.

BSL interpretation and auto-captions will be enabled.

To read more about the event visit The Centre for Health, Medical and Environmental Humanities website

To register for this event click here