“Being a disabled parent is a rebellious act.” Niamh Taylor reviews We’ve Got This Edited by Eliza Hull, the first essay collection of its kind, which brings together the voices of thirty disabled parents, some of whom also identify as queer, non-binary, Indigenous, Deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent or with an intellectual disability. Through a combination […]
We spoke with Poppy Villierezz, Co-Founder of Murmuration Community Therapy about her journey to set up the CIC, which organises gatherings and nurture groups for parents of children with SEND. At Murmuration, Poppy and fellow founder Naomi Bonger, create spaces for parents to share experiences and develop friendships and community to support each other to […]
For Mol, it’s all about the people and the chat – singing too, if at all possible. Getting more people along to the places where she likes to hang out. Finding ways to get new friends and old ones involved in what she likes to do. Creating the right atmosphere and ‘a buzz,’ wherever that […]
Letters to My Weird Sisters by Joanne Limburg “It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had … marked me out as different, were those moments when I had come up against some unspoken law about how a girl or a woman should be, and failed to meet it.” When writer […]
