Ok further to yesterday’s post some more very random thoughts on elective medical procedures, women with disabilities, capacity to consent, advocacy, mothers and parents in general. It’s long and you need to click on the link down below to read it all! (First time I’ve used the jump…wonder will it make you read it all!) […]
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Alison Thorpe wants her daughter to have a hysterectomy. Her daughter Katie is 15 and has significant disabilities. I wrote a really long post on this issue this evening and lost it – I can’t get find the emotion or energy to write it again. Bloody internet. Maybe I’ll write it tomorrow – But one […]
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‘Mind the lady in the ..[long pause]… moving thing’ That was the corker I heard said by a mother to her two children as I made my way up Talbot Street this afternoon. That was after negotiating the IFSC Luas construction works alongside someone I knew years ago and had met in M&S with her […]
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Few printable words can be given to my feelings on last nights events – those other events. Captains of industry given an opportunity to patronise people with disabilities and receive awards for not breaking the law and giving people their human rights? I’m going to the Circus tonight so I won’t have to watch it […]
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A PhD student filmmaker in Australia made a film about disability – entitled Laughing at the Disabled where he sent two men with intellectual disabilities into various situations where they ended up being abused and physically attacked. At a review meeting where the rushes for the film were shown members of the faculty are horrified […]
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