United Kingdom
I am a disability justice activist living in Scotland, involved in politics, advocacy and evidence-based policy. After having to leave university when I became disabled, I began a writing degree through the OU with the aim of doing more science writing. I spent a lot of time translating research into non-scientist language, especially for disabled people targeted by disinformation, but I got diverted into politics by necessity as disabled people in the UK become more at risk.
I spent three years as the SNP's National Equalities Convener, and a year as Co-Chair of the SNP Disabled Members Group. In both roles I worked on the issues affecting marginalised people in politics and wider society, and how to understand and address the structural solutions needed.
I now work as an equalities consultant where I help organisations and people understand accessibility, structural inequalities and how to mitigate them, and countering the rising threat of far-right disinformation and attacks.
I am also a performance poet, and have written a guide to adapting to becoming disabled called 'Your Life Is Not Over', which includes poetry and a lot of practical tips about the things I wish I'd known when I first got sick.
DISABILITY! CATS! MEMES! BIG STRETCHES! Before Jorts the Cat was a workers' rights leader, he was just a sweet potato doing essential work with his friend Jean. The world found out about him when a well meaning coworker buttered him, trying to fix him, but Jorts didn't need fixing!
On Thursday, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) posted a video to Twitter of the Minister For Disabled People , Tom Pursglove, wearing a DWP-emblazoned stab vest and accompanying police breaking down doors. He says " We will track you down. We will find you. And we will bring you to justice."
Bella Takeover 10-12 April, with Guest Editor Caitlin Logan Engender have published an in-depth, much-needed report on disabled women's reproductive rights: ' Our Bodies, Our Rights '. There are so many different threads of marginalisation, isolation and oppression which have a cumulative impact on disabled women and, though disabled people have known about them for a long time, academia and civil society are only just beginning to take steps towards believing us.
"[£200,000] is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too." In the midst of the most controversial Labour Conference in recent times, the speeches were pored over for things to be outraged about.
About fifteen years ago, I went for an eye test. Don't worry, nothing bad happened, but I remember moments from it with a crystal clarity, because it was the first time in three and a half years I had full control over my movement.
Disability activist and writer Fiona Robertson says the UK's most vulnerable are screaming for help IT IS to their credit, and to our collective doom, that the Conservative Party are masters of controlling narrative.
Disability activist and writer Fiona Robertson says women and children will likely die as a result of the Rape Clause BY NOW, most people know about the existence of the Rape Clause: the exception to Westminster's new two-child limit for child tax credits, allowing for parents to claim for further children if they can prove the child was the product of rape or coercion.
