I withdrew from competition for the Les Enfants Terribles Awards at Greenwich Theatre yesterday live on stage. This was as a result of the wheelchair inaccessibility of the main stage, and the…
Category: Arts
Creative Mentoring – Why I Do It
I have been creatively stuck at many points. I’ve felt like I’d never write again, like my work wouldn’t come together, like I didn’t know what to do next, and like I…
Shield (MacTaggart Lecture)
When I’m not writing poetry, I’m also moving into writing for television – a world I’m realising just makes disabled people almost completely invisible – most of the time. The MacTaggart Lecture…
Keeping creating when inspiration has fled
I’m passionate about my creative career, and when people ask me how I work, one of the first things I say is that I make time to produce creative work every day…
#AskForAccess – be an ally to disabled people
#AskForAccess is a new campaign to encourage non-disabled people to ask about wheelchair access when attending events, in order to encourage those events to provide wheelchair access
Award Winner
I’m delighted to have received one of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund Awards in Directing and Theatre-Making. I was nominated back in November by the Barbican Centre – probably because of…
Experimental! An online writing retreat for D/deaf and disabled writers
For a little while now, I have been asking on Twitter for recommendations of D/deaf and disabled writers and I am now delighted to announce why! Experimental! is an online writing retreat…
Solo show: NOT DYING
You missed it! A film of this show was available on YouTube until August – but it’s gone. If you want a chance to catch it in future, keep a close eye…
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,…
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…