I bring together my experience of the menopause with ME in this piece for @the-polyphony.bsky.social. Many thanks to @alyfixit.bsky.social for supporting this work.
#pwME #menopause #cyanotype #writing
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Arlene Jackson’s reflective cyanotype prints allow the sun’s rays to transform a body dehumanised by sexist medical disbelief into ‘something extraordinary’.
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Cold War Steve
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A german charity is planning on building a social housing project for people with severe ME. Tailored vis à vis noise/light reduction, 24hr assistance etc.
Location: Neunkirchen-Seelscheid
They need 5 people interested. So please share. (Requirement to be on German Welfare)
In Neunkirchen-Seelscheid ist ein Wohnprojekt speziell für schwer ME/CFS-Betroffene mit 24-Stunden-Assistenz in Planung. Ein Bauträger möchte in Zusammenarbeit mit Sozialhummel in 53819 Neunkirchen-Se...
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Yann (ME/LC)
@itslauracasey.bsky.social 🤩💕
So honoured to have contributed to @the-polyphony.bsky.social In Practice series. Thank you so much @alyfixit.bsky.social for your support of this piece 😌
#writing #medicalhumanities #pwme #chronicillness #art #photography
💕 Thank you @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social for supporting this piece.
My second #Ekphrasis piece inspired by AshleyCook’s art and my lived experience of #chronicillness #ME is now live on the wonderful #DisabledTales. Involving the myth of the siren, Wolf Larsen and even a Beatles reference! 😌 www.disabledtales.co.uk/essays/the-l...
#pwme #lyrics #greekmyths
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A real honour to have contributed to @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social on the important and prescient issue of the social care crisis via this review. #DisabilityHistoryMonth #disability #chronicillness #socialcare
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True facts are true
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So sad to see this happening.
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Albums of Scotland: The Waterboys - This Is the Sea. Released on the Ensign label in 1985.
Tara Dublin, Rock Star Author📚❤️🔥🤘🏻
Esther
NEW✨ Our social care systems are failing the most vulnerable.
@arlenejackson.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social reviews Care Poverty and Unmet Needs ed. Teppo Kröger, Nicola Brimblecombe @cpeclse.bsky.social, Ricardo Rodrigues and @profkirstein.bsky.social
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDHM
Time for a Featured Creator piece! Today's fab Featured Creator piece is 'Don’t Forget to Look Up' by @arlenejackson.bsky.social 👏
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Care Poverty and Unmet Needs brings together twenty-seven social policy researchers to analyse “care poverty: inadequate and unequal social care provision.
#Measels
Through very high levels of vaccination we reached a reasonable level of population immunity
With drastic fall in immunisation, we r not only exposing those who r un-immunised but also reversing the gains @organicbotanic.bsky.social @elhopkins.bsky.social
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This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.
Practice research from @arlenejackson.bsky.social: "Folklore has it that one who wears a wreath of bluebell heads will only speak the truth... my narrative... lands in reality to acknowledge that... Illness is not a comeuppance for slighting the natural world."
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Arlene Jackson reflects on a photomontage created by the artist Ashley Cook, in light of her chronic illness relapse.
