incurable hippie's musings and rants

This post originally appeared on The F-Word It's supposed to be the most wonderful time of the year. The cheerful TV ads encourage spending and the songs blaring out from speakers in ever...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2013/12/coping-with-christmas-survival-guide.html

Nominating myself for an award goes against all my self-depracating Britishness, but buoyed on by being named on the list of most influential people in Britain  I thought I would give it a go ...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2013/06/nomination-for-mind-media-awards-2013.html

On this episode of the Converge Podcast, I talk to Cath Elms, feminist and author of feminist perzine Here. In my Head. We talk about feminism, longevity, typewriters, relating real life events...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2013/06/converge-podcast-03-zines-are-good.html

When two women on Twitter heard BBC Radio 4′s flagship Today programme host discussions with all-male participants, and the show said they had not been able to find any qualified women to featu...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2013/06/converge-podcast-02-once-you-open-your.html

Mental health service users face regular discrimination and are misunderstood and misrepresented by public opinion and the media. In this first episode of the Converge Podcast, I talk to Charlott...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2013/06/converge-podcast-01-place-to-explore.html

Hello, long-neglected blog, I have missed you! There is lots to say and update. A year and a bit ago I became self-employed as a freelance writer . I didn't think I was going to be able to mak...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2013/02/inked.html

I love Sheffield. This morning I had an idea of simplicity and beauty, and created the Love Sheffield design. With encouragement from @andlavendercats I added it as a t-shirt range on RedBubble...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2012/05/love-sheffield.html

I was interviewed for two fab articles with Women's Views on News : Crawling off a train: disability in the UK in 2012 Disability: the Cinderella of feminism? I also, amusingly, turned up on...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2012/04/updates.html

The last few weeks I've been on two crutches rather than one. This started when I tripped and tore a toenail off, then continued when I got new neurological symptoms in a rather large new section...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2012/02/got-another-forgery-then-have-you.html

A terrified umbrella group has been set up who believe that because of the gays, that teetering, vulnerable institution which is heterosexual marriage, is under threat. Warning of the Profou...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2012/02/gay-marriage-is-really-very-scary.html

Some things I have written elsewhere but have not cross-posted here for one reason or another. Most excitingly, I wrote in The Guardian Comment is Free about getting abuse for being disabled. ...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2012/02/schtuff.html

I sleepwalked last night. It is something I have started doing this year, for reasons unknown. It is horrible, and I wake up too freaked out to get back to sleep. I'm writing this because it's be...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/12/adult-sleepwalking.html

In exciting news, as well as subscribing by RSS feed , you can also now subscribe to incurable hippie blog on your Kindle! As far as I can tell it is only available in the UK and the US .

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/12/subscribe-to-hippie-blog-on-kindle.html

It started with a blog post , where David Gillon challenged 38 degrees about why, despite a disability benefit cuts campaign receiving lots of votes, it never reached the 'call to action' stage...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/12/youre-frightening-me.html

When I complained about Julian Assange speaking at Occupy LSX , I was told I was being divisive. When I drew attention to zohra moosa and Chitra Nagarajan's experiences of racism at the same ...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/divide-and-rule-works-both-ways.html

CSC Funk Band via freemusicarchive.org .

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/today-i-will-mostly-be-listening-to.html

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a chronic procrastinator. In an effort to improve this really stressful trait in my life I have been reading up and studying all about it, and one of the bes...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/procrastination-podcast-and-book.html

I have been doing some research on sex and disability, and thought I would share some of the links I have found. This will be useful for me in the future as a resource, and hopefully to others to...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/disability-and-sex-resources.html

Earlier this year, a friend of several of my friends died. He was young, and the circumstances were tragic and, at the time, somewhat newsworthy. But the news media can all too easily lose sight ...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/well-loved-man.html

While I hadn't been able to join an occupation on a Sunday , I went to my local occupation this afternoon and spent an hour or so there drinking tea and putting the world to right. What follows...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/disabled-people-occupy-uk-occupy.html

The main thing I've been up to is setting up a massive database to link feminists on twitter with similar interests . It's been a lot of work, but 258 people have already signed up and filled it ...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-ive-been-up-to.html

Yesterday I wrote about why Workfare is exploitative and unfair, especially for disabled people . Today I want to talk about something insidious and disturbing within the plans for rolling this s...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/not-in-my-name.html

Things I have done elsewhere today: Cuts Kill. Again. at Where's the Benefit? Women firefighters to lobby MPs tomorrow at The F-Word And others' posts I have liked elsewhere: When 'accessib...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/elsewhere-today.html

Some disabled people are completely fit for work, but cannot find any, so claim Jobseekers' Allowance. This is particularly an issue because disabled people face many barriers to work, includin...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/workfare-exploitative-and-cruel.html

There's nothing I wouldn't do to hear your voice again. Sometimes I want to call you, but I know you won't be there. Are you looking down upon me? Are you proud of who I am? There is nothing I w...

http://incurable-hippie.blogspot.com/2011/11/miss-you-dad.html