NOT DYING (my solo show)
My solo show, NOT DYING, will be available on youtube until early August. It is poetry, death, comedy, sex, and the impetus to survive in the face of the odds. Let me know what you think! For a subtitled version,...
Author: jamiehale
Compassion: when work stops working
I work. I don’t necessarily have a good work ethic (which I would define as requiring a healthy relationship with one’s time working and not working), but I work. When I’m depressed, I work. When I’m struggling, I work. When...
COVID-19 – is online more accessible?
Is the lockdown really more accessible for disabled people, or is it just differently accessible? I’ve read a lot of disabled people talking about how with the lockdown there are no access barriers, but I’ve also been thinking for a...
COVID-19, disabled people, and the right to LIVE (independently)
COVID-19, disabled people, and the right to LIVE (independently) Coronavirus is ripping through care homes. It is killing thousands of people who are trapped in these institutions, often with no choice or control as to who provides their ‘care’, no...
Disabled People Are Not Expendable (yet we’re being left to die)
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has released its guidelines for critical care in Coronavirus. NICE is widely respected, and its evidence-based guidelines often take years to develop, with wrangling backwards and forwards between medication companies, researchers, journal articles...
How to share space in quarantine: setting the rules
I was discussing this with colleagues and realised that the negotiations I’ve been engaged in with my wife might be useful for other people. Now we’re both working from home, we need to find ways of not getting underfoot for...