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I cannot emphasise enough that my body
Is a badly designed, poorly put together vessel
Harbouring these diminishing, so-called ‘vital organs’.
I hope my heart goes first. Other Places to find me
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Author Archives: Emma
An open letter to the editor of Exceptionality, and to Prof. Kauffman and Dr Bader regarding the “Extremism and Disability Chic” article (issue 28.1)
Last week, a few people posted about an article by Kauffman and Bader, published in the journal Exceptionality, at the end of last year. I’m not linking to it because those links are used to calculate impact – but the abstract … Continue reading
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The 5th Vital Sign
Over the last few days, there’s been a fair bit of chatter online about a podcast episode for Invisibilia, published by NPR, called The 5th Vital Sign. I hadn’t listened to the episode, although I do subscribe to Invisibilia. For those … Continue reading
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Project planning for research students
This is something I found really useful with my PhD, and is something I encourage my MA students to do as well – and pass it on to other people starting PhDs.; I thought I’d throw it up on here … Continue reading
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The problem with the problem of opioids
Over the last few weekdays, the Evening Standard has been running an investigation series on – according to the title on the 15th of March – the “Opioid Timebomb.” The articles are accompanied by an opinion piece by Dr Cathy … Continue reading
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Pain acceptance needs more than individuals
Vox’s Impact podcast has recently released an episode on “Pain AcceptanceVox has written upon before, and I generally respect their approach to such things. This article from The Conversation is also a good summary of the background. It’s important to remember that … Continue reading
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Post-viva flump
I had been planning to write this for Blogging Against Disablism Day – which is the 1st of May each year – but, well, this is not the greatest of weeks for me. That said: you should definitely go and … Continue reading
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Real World Academics
My grandfather used to call academics ‘eternal students,’ because he didn’t really see the point of academics. He saw them as these posh, rarefied beasts in an ivory tower, who didn’t come down to his level and do a proper … Continue reading
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Crip(pl)ing Pain – Poster Presentation at Encountering Pain
At the end of last week, I went to the Encountering Pain conference at UCL. The conference was really good – it was very much an interdisciplinary conference, so there were people from a range of academic disciplines, as well … Continue reading
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#BADD2016 – On Pain (of course) and the Personal
This post is for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2016. You should go read the rest of the blogs and check the hashtag #BADD2016 on Twitter. Massive thanks, as always, to Goldfish for organising this. When I tell people about the … Continue reading
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Tortoise Containment
I’ve been working on an outside pen for Lady Thortoise since I got her at the end of last summer. The temperatures are nowhere near warm enough for her to go out – it’s definitely spring here, but it still … Continue reading
The Ladylike Punk 