The changes to the benefits system which demands that disabled and ill people must go through compulsory re-assessment under a shambolic system run by a private multinational is literally killing people, the subsequent withdraws of benefits of leave people in limbo struggling to manage their illness and jump through the necessary hoops to get the …
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In the last few weeks, the issue of disability and the government’s attitudes to disabled people and their carers have been put in the spotlight, with the DWP informing carers that they should not spend their childrens’ disability benefits on beer and fags, while Ian Duncan Smith is apparently going to write to the bereaved …
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The concept of privilege as a structural cultural entity can be traced back to Jean Baker Millar’s Towards a New Psychology of Women in the mid-70s. From its roots in feminism, it has been extended to other forms of structural oppression, where a dominant and a subordinate group can be identified. Although its roots are …
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I first heard of Helen Keller in Primary Four when I was around eight years old. I can’t say I was awful impressed with her. I mean yes, of course it was good that she had overcome her naughty ways, no longer broke her toys in anger and very clever that she had learned to …
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