All because a billionaire using male pseudonyms to write about physically flawed male characters & known personally by a non-binary name can’t face the truth about themselves. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

The chief medical adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions has sparked fresh anger after again publicly downplaying links between the deaths of disabled benefit claimants and her own department’s actions.

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall – along with three of her ministerial team – failed to sign up to her own department’s disability employment scheme, a government report has revealed.

Disabled women have warned MPs that the continuing process to move them onto universal credit from their existing benefits is risking their health and putting them at threat of destitution.

What happened to socialists in the Labour Party? This Tory PM is driving more people towards death, while trying to legalise euthanasia just for us. We will unite and fight this, we need our allies to help.

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Awful AND bizarre

Being in receipt of disability benefits has a significant positive impact on a disabled person’s wellbeing and level of “life satisfaction”, according to new research.

This would save a few of us some medical appointments..

I just posted this on Twitter with no note. I'm conducting a little experiment. Results to follow.

Neurodivergent+ Journalist Emma Robdale talks to Joanne Limburg about her book 'Letters to My Weird Sister' that delves into why Autism and the act of ‘womaning’ are fundamentally tied to feminist theory of gender expectation and masking. https://buff.ly/4gzBnEW

Disabled activists have questioned why a Labour-run department was in the high court this week defending cuts proposed by the last government which would cause “human suffering” among hundreds of thousands of claimants of out-of-work disability benefits.

Within the media, violence is only permitted top down. They allow advertisements for the military, pro-genocide propaganda, and glorifying corporations that poison or destroy our air, water, bodies, etc. Police brutality and economic, environmental, and state violence are positioned as legitimate.

Colin Hambrook reflects on Claire Cunningham’s latest show Songs of the Wayfarer, bringing a world of hillwalking and Mahler together under one roof. https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/reviews/songs-of-the-wayfarer-a-journey-across-metaphorical-hills-and-mountains/

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Job Alert🚨 Choice in Hackney, a user-led organisation supporting Disabled people, are looking for a Community Care and Housing Advisor to join their team. Hours: Part time, 18 hours per week Salary: £30,060 (pro rata) Deadline: 4pm, Friday 20th December

Scumbags. They are going to bring this in by hook or by crook. And then we will smash up the clinics.

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Tomorrow in London

News you may have missed on Thursday/Friday: A disabled Labour MP has vowed to push her government to implement the UN disability convention into UK law, as she delivered a lecture set up to remember a much-admired activist.

Disabled activists have pledged to continue the fight against the legalisation of assisted suicide, despite MPs voting comfortably in favour of a bill that would allow it to be introduced in England and Wales.

A strong majority of disabled MPs voted against legalising assisted suicide on Friday, despite Kim Leadbeater’s private members’ bill easily passing to the next stage of the parliamentary process that could lead to it becoming law.

A Channel 4 documentary that claimed to expose the “scandal” of the disability benefits system has been described as an “atrocity” and an “insult” to the millions of disabled people in poverty.

I wish for a world where assisted death isn't controversial, where we don't fear being inadvertently killed off because at every level society acts against the disabled and ill. It's harder to accept assisted death when there's little done to assist people in life.

Vigil outside high court for case against consultation on WCA changes 9am Tues 10 Dec Outside the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London WC2A 2LL Legal challenge against the consultation on changes to the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) dpac.uk.net/2024/12/vigi...

The Greater Manchester Disabled People’s Panel (GMDPP) statement on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: gmdisabledpeoplespanel.com/2024/11/27/g...

We are gravely concerned by both the content of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill brought forward by Kim Leadbeater MP, and due for its second reading on 29/11/2024, and by the way it has been brought forward. Read More: gmcdp.com/campaigning Or images with alt text below in 3 parts

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We gave @andyburnham.bsky.social a copy of - The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence by @johnpring.bsky.social on #IDDP He has promised to read it carefully. Thank you Andy.

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Solidarity with DPAC, holding vigil outside Parliament today as it votes on #AssistedDyingBill. DPAC have spent years fighting state killing of disabled people through negligence, incompetence and cruelty. That same state cannot be trusted with this. #AssistUsToLive #NotDeadYet

Sending love and solidarity to all our 'disability' activist friends today as the Terminally ill Adults (end of life) bill being debated today We stand with you in opposing the bill for all the reasons #DPAC and Liz Carr have been sharing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“While the bill would give a new right to an assisted suicide, there would be “no right to palliative care or independent living support”, said DPAC.” After 14 years of decimated public svs, suicide might seem like only viable option. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/warning-for-...

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#AssistUsToLive Disabled people in line hold individual yellow placards in London on 29th November as 330 MPs voted for #AssistedDyingBill 📸 @paulapeters19.bsky.social ❤️