Rory Waterman, Nottingham Trent University Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of...
If you liked Apple Cider Vinegar on Netflix, you must check out The Search for Instagram’s Worst Con Artist. The former is a fictionalized retelling real life grifter Belle Gibson, who rose to...
Since 1992, the United Nations has dedicated December 3 of each year to the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, a date devoted to “mobilizing support for the dignity, rights and...
There are no rules in art, and people - when given the freedom - create what they want, or need, to create. For disabled artists, sometimes that means making art about disability, disablism and...
If, somehow, Ren Gill has not been all over your TikTok feed in the last few weeks, and you haven’t seen him perform Hi Ren, now is the time. But brace yourself. It is harrowing. Hi Ren is not a...
Why does representation in books matter? This is something I have been wondering about for a long time, as I write Young Adult literature, primarily about disabled and queer teenagers, and am trying...
Yesterday, a small group of Members of Parliament got together to debate the rights and wrongs of legalising assisted suicide. The debate did not have the power to change the law in England and...
If you gave up your gym membership in the first few months of this year, don't be too hard on yourself, maintaining a fitness routine can be really tough. However, if you want to enjoy these nice...
Every time a new year begins, we have a list of things, whether physical or mental, that we want to achieve in the next twelve months. Although it changes over time, on a general scale, we all want...
When actress Helen Mirren, 77, let her hair grow out during pandemic lockdown, she just loved the idea of having long hair again like when she was in her 20s. She dropped the rules, apparently set in...
