Why I’m not around
You may have noticed I’ve been pretty quiet lately. My health has been doing a slow, painful nosedive and yesterday I got some crappy news that might explain some of that.
Author Archives: writehanded
Depression isn’t diabetes
That may seem like an obvious thing to say. But I am really, really sick of conflating mental illnesses with physical ones (which is a false dichotomy in itself) in Continue Reading →
False idols and self care
I’ve been a fan of Laurie Penney for a while, but she just continually outdoes herself. Her recent column, ‘Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless: On negotiating the false idols of Continue Reading →
Folks and things
You might have noticed me linking to a new online magazine called Folks. My friend Naomi Arnold wrote about me, and I wrote about writer Stephanie de Montalk.
Please call me disabled
For some of you, this might not be what you want to hear. For whatever reason, you don’t want to think of me this way. But this is what I Continue Reading →
Lifeline: It literally is.
Several weeks ago, I experienced a crisis. It was following the suicide of a friend, and I was struggling to cope. I called Lifeline at about 2 o’clock in the Continue Reading →
Radical Acceptance and Extreme Prioritisation
Getting ill changes your perspective on so many things. I’ve had to massively overhaul not just my life, but my entirely way of thinking. And in order to get anywhere Continue Reading →
It’s much worse than you thought
I finally got around to doing Stuff’s “Rich or Poor?” indicator. I mean, I had a pretty good idea that I’m poor. But my result “Your standard of living is Continue Reading →
Is your feminism ableist?
I want to talk about intersectional feminism with regards to people with disabilities. Being intersectional means caring about the rights of all women – women of colour, trans women, disabled women. Continue Reading →
Self care vs Selfishness: how do we know?
As someone who finds self care really tough to do, but who obviously needs a lot of it, I’m a loud advocate. But it’s tough to fight the voice that Continue Reading →