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: Personal
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…
Shield – my poetry pamphlet is RELEASED
At the beginning of the pandemic, I spoke to my GP about being ‘clinically extremely vulnerable’ and intensive care treatment, and he told me that I was “stuck between a rock and…
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,…
Surviving Inside – fifteen tips on how to cope with self-isolation
Last summer I spent 6 months in hospital. Three months in one room in one hospital, 3 months in one room in another hospital. I won’t pretend I didn’t go a bit…
The PA Series: Living the Life I Want
I spoke at the Trailblazers Young People’s conference last Saturday (13th Oct), alongside two other excellent speakers – Lucy Watts and Fi Anderson. The topic was ‘living the life you want’ and…
Wheelchair Access – why it matters
When non-disabled people attend inaccessible events, they’re building their careers by treading on disabled people. Why does this matter?
Complaining About Access: How non-disabled people can help
It is a sadly common fact for disabled people (and in the context of this blog, specifically wheelchair users) to be blocked from attending events because of a lack of access, but…
Wheeled – a poem for International Wheelchair Day
Wheeled I am wheeled. My weightin legs as flesh made solid ashalf dead and halfalive as weakness but I. I – my movement joy. Myleap up jagged kerbs. Myspeed. I trail people;…