Please join us for an Author meets Author(s) event. Ashley Shew, author of Against Technoableism, and Danya Glabau & Dr. Laura Forlano, authors of Cyborg, will discuss each others' work. The event is open to all SDS members. 5/23 from 12-1:30 EST. Register here: rb.gy/frfbx3

Especially when therapists define 'mental health' as being able to hold down a job and doctors limit their actions to palliatives instead of joining the fight against the causes of depression, e.g., being overworked & underpaid!

While it's great PIP is in the headlines, disabled people have suffered with this brutal and incompetent system for nearly 15 years. We need a commitment to find a fairer system to support disabled people and abolish PIP once and for all.

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Arguments against using the term ‘ableism’:
‘what she said was “what about ability?” That was when I realized that using ableism makes it really easy for people to equate ableism with discrimination based on ability. This is a very problematic association’
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We rightly get angry at what's happening to unpaid carers, but I wish we'd do more than shrug our shoulders at the claimants who are sanctioned 5-600,000 times a year up to £90 a week, some for 2 months or more, for being late/missing a meeting.

Time and time again I see organizers struggle to figure out HOW to plan a virtual conference. I think disabled ingenuity and wisdom can help solve the 'online conferences suck' issue. So if you have exp or knowledge, drop it below! Here are some things to start with 2/12

Join us! Monday 5/20 at 11am PDT for A Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion w/ Werner Bonefeld, Gabriel Meier, Charlotte Baumann, Nate Holdren (Mod)

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'This is the sort of conduct which anyone in receipt of services from a Jobcentre would fear, that if work coaches or other staff are challenged, there will be reprisals,' an employment tribunal found.

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On Monday, 20th May, insights from this project will be presented at University of Leeds Leeds University Business School’s Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change (@CERIC_LUBS) Doctoral Conference, on the Employee Voice & Workplace Democracy panel.

Join in!
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Fanon's observations about the political tendencies of doctors are as relevant today as ever. They are rooted in what he saw as he worked as a psychiatrist in French-colonized Algeria during its struggle for liberation, in which as many as 1.5 million Algerians were killed. 1/13

University managers: “We support #AcademicMentalHealth ”

Me: “Reduce faculty workloads, support PhD students, increase postdoc salaries, accommodate disabled and neurodivergent staff, create more permanent jobs”

Managers: “Not like that”

The PhD Place
OpenAcademics

'I am shocked about the barriers and discrimination that I have had to go through. I was shocked about the lack of training [DWP/Jobcentre] staff have had, lack of deaf awareness and how I have been stuck in a system and unable to move on...'

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Apply Today! 2024-2025 URPE Dissertation Fellowship form.jotform.com/240673626716158

In solidarity with SOAS Liberated Zone today we supported building & installation of wheelchair ramp making the space more accessible for disabled activists there.

There’s no liberation worth the name without the liberation of disabled people. Or without the Palestinian people

There's still 10 days left to send submissions for 'Anarchy & Activism: Disrupting Disability' University of Leeds and online 21st June. Registration is free and now open! Open to all PGRs, ECRs and civil society. NON ACADEMIC SUBMISSIONS ARE VERY WELCOME!! eventbrite.com/e/anarchy-acti…

Systemic by Layal Liverpool, a ground-breaking investigation into how racism corrodes science and medicine – leading to worse treatment for everyone, is on @Netgalley!

Request a copy here: bit.ly/4b7Hyxy

‼️‼️PIP Social in June! ‼️‼️
Join us for an evening of PIP solidarity, structured application advice and art!
Thursday 13th June
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Working Class Movement Library Annex & Online
Register Here gmcdp.com/civicrm/event/…

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