Introducing the Disabled at Uni series This covers a number of aspects of the disabled student experience, serving as advice and guidance on studying as a disabled student, the support that’s out…
Author: Jamie Hale (page 8)
Adaption = Pragmatism + Grief
For me, the hardest thing about living with progressive impairment rather than the static impairment I hoped I had is that shifting relationship with the ground. Just as I know what I…
Being disabled: I am the single use plastics crisis – and that’s okay
I could weep when I look at the mound of plastic I create each day, or week. The toll is ridiculous. What I have to remember is that this is what single…
Living the Life I Want: The Freedom to Fail
This is part 2 of a blog exploring my “living the life you want” panel discussion at the annual Young People’s stream of the Muscular Dystrophy UK conference. I spoke alongside Lucy…
Aseptic
Performed at the Saboteur Awards in May 2018, aseptic is a collaboration between poets Jamie Hale and Emily Robinson. Created in PechaKucha format, the piece uses found text and hospital imagery to explore the creation of value through living despite the diminishing of the disabled body to medical curiosity.
Three things I wish people knew about living with life-threatening impairment
One of the hardest things about living with life-threatening impairment is actually not dealing with my situation, but with peoples reactions to my situation. Here are three things I wish people knew…
Five great tips for using London buses in a wheelchair
Having lived in London for three years, I’ve taken a lot of buses. In that time, I’ve been sworn at by drivers, had a woman accuse me of trying to kill her baby,…
A Poet in London? Not if you’re travelling by wheelchair!
Building a career as a poet in London is hard enough – doing it while relying on wheelchair accessible public transport is almost impossible The problem with trying to build a performance…
Assisted suicide: a shift to neutrality is not a neutral move
The views in this article are entirely my own and do not reflect that of any organisation I work with. They should be considered reflective of my position at the time of…
Icarus
Icarus, by Jamie Hale, published in Poetry Quarterly – Winter 2018 Icarus is told as a tragedy But to love life that much For one perfect moment – he soared And his end obscures…