October Favourites

A Monthly Resource Round Up

Happy Halloween, witches! (Yes - I went there.)

October has been something a mammoth month - busy in executing a range of projects, attending cultural events, as well as trying to deal with health issues aplenty. Everything you see has been scheduled significantly far in advance, simply as a way of saving brain space and maximising my own energy. For this reason, there is one long essay instead of the usual ‘shorts’ in this newsletter.

Photo by Sašo Tušar on Unsplash

It’s not fun to collapse on your local high street - that marked the tone of this month, I feel. What a way to kick off October! But still, we roll.

I really like this month; Katherine May has previously written about the veil between world’s being at its thinnest, a reference I really liked in His Dark Materials. (Ask me about it if we’re in person - I will not shut up about this franchise or the book - I even have a tattoo based on the book.) But it’s also a time when you’re allowed the ‘witch’ persona - Elizabeth Day has previously spoken about this - and I love that. It’s so much more comfortable to me on disability grounds, to hide the vulnerabilities, but also to embody something that little bit more carefree.

This month we’re ‘doing’ girly, chronic illness style. I couldn’t bear anything too ghoulish - such as with the political party conferences. That was just truly… yuck is the only appropriate word. I have yet to summon the words to direct the disgust I feel at disability policy in the UK - work coaches on a psychiatric ward? Seriously? Weight loss vaccination to get back to work? Words baffle me as to the sheer stupidity of such dystopian ideas; all the while, we await the US election. Yikes. May sense prevail.

I also got to go to the International Women’s podcast Festival in person; this is the panel I filmed remotely for the in-person event. (And what an amazing event it was.)

See you next month - and on the other side of the US election! Remember to not turn the clock back to the 1950s. (She writes, as The Disabled Feminist is in fact read largely by the US, by quite a substantial margin.)

P.S I have taken down the paywall of an older piece from last year - it’s an interview with the journalist

Lynn Enright

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