SCROUNGE, BY AMIE M MARIE – REVIEW

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Amie Marie, art, arts, assessment, disability, dwp, featured, healthcare, job, jobseeker, matthew hopkins, performance, PIP, review, scrounge, theresa may, threatre, toby skelton, unemployment.

by Toby Skelton

Shortly after the 2016 amendments to the assessment of Personal Independence Payments (PIP), a cartoon scolding the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) began doing the rounds on social media. In it, a figure sits behind a desk declaring: “If they drown, they need PIP. If they float, they weren’t ill.” whilst a woman is dragged out of the office by her hair. Accompanied by the caption “Conservatives Disability Policy”, the illustration caught a lot of online attention for this comparison of the DWP’s practices to those of the elementally evil Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins. Some found it an absurdly distasteful comparison; others deemed it a justified piece of satirical exaggeration. But as Amie M Marie deftly exposes in her new play Scrounge, the cartoon was barely hyperbolic in its analogy.

MAKING HER SELF UP – FRIDA KAHLO AT THE V&A, LONDON

Posted on November 7, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged abortion, art, arts, capitalism, che guevara, communism, diego rivera, disability, featured, frida, Frida Kahlo, la casa azul, making her self up, miscarriage, painting, salma hayek, self portrait with monkeys, the broken column.

by Carmina Masoliver

Ever since I studied Frida Kahlo in class, I have been a fan. Self Portrait with Monkeys (1943) and The Broken Column (1944) always stood out in my mind from those years, the monkeys offering a protective symbolism, and the latter painting signifying a kind of strength through suffering. Like Kahlo, I enjoyed painting self-portraits, and I found it difficult to paint other faces with the same accuracy.

CARING FOR THOSE WHO CARE

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged Allowance, benefits, care, career, carer, carers week, Dementia tax, disability, featured, health, home, norfolk, norwich, transport, uk, welfare, work.

by James Anthony

Across the country during 11th-17th June, various individuals, charities and institutions will be celebrating Carers Week 2018 in recognition of unpaid carers and the work they do. That period will also mark just over two and a half months of my time working for a local carers charity. It’s opened my eyes to the issues that many carers face and what needs to change to improve their lives, but also to recognise the need to publicise Carers Week and recognise the contribution of carers to society as a whole.Continue Reading

LIFE PLANS AND MONTHLY REMINDERS

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged baby, children, chronic illness, disabilities, disability, eds, ehlers danlos syndrome, featured, genetics, health, invisible disabilities, invisible illness, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, medical negligence, medicine, Migraines, parenthood, period, personal, Perspectives, relantionship, studies, treatment, university.

by Alice Thomson

Ten years ago, I was in my first year of University at Aberdeen, studying to be a Primary school teacher. It was a daunting, but exciting time. I had plans for my future and much to look forward to. I decided I wanted to be a teacher to help learners, like myself, that struggle in the education system. After achieving my degree, I planned to establish myself as a teacher before going back to University to gain the qualifications I needed to become a Special Educational Needs teacher.

I had always wanted a family and so my plan was to enjoy my early 20s, find someone I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, get married and have two children. A teaching career seemed like a good match with the challenges of having a family. In my mind I had it all worked out. I’d decided that by around my 30th birthday I would probably have given birth to my last child. I’m going to have my 30th birthday this year, and my life didn’t go to plan.Continue Reading

WHO BENEFITS?

Posted on January 6, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged assessment, benefits, claims, cuts, disability, discrimination, DLA, ESA, featured, funding, government, JSA, lazy, new year, personal, Perspectives, PIP, privatisation, theresa may, workshy.

by Alice Thomson

cw: mentions of suicide

Hurray, 2018 is upon us. January always seems like a month of reflection and contemplation to me, mainly because nothing much happens, and most people are recovering from December. Although, I feel this way as I type, there is a niggling dread at the back of my mind for 2018. I’m probably not the only one that feels this way. A new year invites new opportunities, but it also means that these openings provide an element of risk or failure.Continue Reading

A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A REST?

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged confession, depression, disability, ehlers danlos sydrome, healthcare, life, mental health, mental health stigma, mental illness, norwich, personal, Perspectives, PTSD, royal national orthopaedic hospital, Scotland, uk.

by Alice Thomson

So much has happened in only a few months, for me personally as well as globally – let’s be honest, the the past year’s events in the United States of America alone of the past year would be tough to sum up in a 1,000 word article. I don’t think I could do justice to the topic. As this is my first article in a while, I thought I’d focus on what I’ve been up to, to give you an idea of the reasons for my absence the last few months.Continue Reading

SURVIVAL

Posted on September 30, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged chronic illness, chronic pain, disability, disabled, ehlers danlos syndrome, mental health, Perspectives.

by Alice Thomson

When I think of the word survival, it conjures up many images. More often than not it’s an image of a character in a horror, thriller or zombie narrative, where the individual does everything physically or logically possible to live through the trauma and make it to the end of the film, or to the next episode. A person’s strength of will to keep living is what drives them to survive the zombie apocalypse, murderer or demon. These surviving characters are always physically and/or mentally strong, or become so quickly. Their motive for survival? They have future plans, information they must pass on, people that rely on them – in some way, their life holds value. Once this traumatic episode is over, they can get back to those lives. They survive in order to find peace, joy, fulfilment, happiness. To reach the light at the end of the tunnel.

CANAPES, CONFERENCES AND CLASS DISCRIMINATION – ACADEMIA IN 2017

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged #LiberateMyDegree, academia, academic culture, accessibility, Aristotle, assessment, BME, BME academics, bursaries, casualisation, class, conferences, curricula, disability, disabled academics, discrimination, diversity, education, erasure, exclusion, hidden costs, higher education, history, legislation, Lisa McKenzie, Louise Richardson, LSE, middle class, minority groups, NUS, politics, postgraduate, poverty fund, psychology, recognition, Sally Hunt, scholarships, sexual harassment, state funding, student support, subsidies, truth, UCU, understanding, universities, VC salaries, Vice Chancellors, women academics, workers rights, working class, working class erasure, working class movement.

by Bradley Allsop

CW: mentions sexual harassment

A teacake and a portable phone charger. Unlikely objects to trigger a tirade against the state of academic practices in the UK, but here you are, about to read one anyway.

MY RELATIONSHIP

Posted on September 2, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged chronic illness, chronic pain, disability, eds, ehlers danlos syndrome, inflammatory pain, invisible disabilities, musculoskeletal pain, nerve pain, pain, Perspectives, therapy.

by Alice Thomson

CW: mentions of death

Pain. Nearly all of us experience it. We all have a relationship with pain, even if we’re not aware of it. Pain allows us to avoid or reduce injury – but sometimes these signals to the brain that are supposed to help can instead go very wrong.

A HIDDEN STRENGTH

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged disability, disabled, eds, ehlers danlos syndrome, invisible disabilities, invisible disability, Perspectives.

by Alice Thomson

The language we use can offer us a glimpse into our core values. Words can be loaded with deeper meaning that demonstrate the true beliefs of a society or individual. This is why, when we use the word “disabled”, it’s worth noting that we tend to veer towards negative language. When looking up synonyms of the word disabled, I was surprised by the loaded and emotive language I found – words like weakened, incapable, damaged and powerless.

disability

SCROUNGE, BY AMIE M MARIE – REVIEW

by Toby Skelton

MAKING HER SELF UP – FRIDA KAHLO AT THE V&A, LONDON

CARING FOR THOSE WHO CARE

LIFE PLANS AND MONTHLY REMINDERS

WHO BENEFITS?

A CHANGE IS AS GOOD AS A REST?

SURVIVAL

CANAPES, CONFERENCES AND CLASS DISCRIMINATION – ACADEMIA IN 2017

MY RELATIONSHIP

A HIDDEN STRENGTH

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