Cate Bailey
@drcatebailey.bsky.social
They/them, sometimes psychiatrist in East London, researcher, reader, Medact member, interested in FND, abolition, epistemic, health and disability justice 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍉
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The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
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September 8, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action”
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
What does it mean to invoke the right to health without accounting for conditions of sustained persistent, overwhelming and abiding terror and violence? - Dr Danya Qato
Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'.
Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'.
Today we’re re-releasing our conversation with @danyaqato from last year on the intersection of colonial occupation and the pandemic in Palestine, alongside a brand new full transcript. New episode still coming tomorrow. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Public Health and Palestine w/ Danya Qato
This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on August 22nd 2022, and we are re-releasing it today alongside a new transcript of the conversation. (This is in addition to our regular s
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September 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
What does it mean to invoke the right to health without accounting for conditions of sustained persistent, overwhelming and abiding terror and violence? - Dr Danya Qato
Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'.
Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'.
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Capitalism disables people constantly—through war, prisons, workplace injury, pollution, denial of care—then blames disabled people for being “unproductive.” It creates the conditions for debility, then moralizes about dependency. It’s how the system protects its own value logic.
August 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Capitalism disables people constantly—through war, prisons, workplace injury, pollution, denial of care—then blames disabled people for being “unproductive.” It creates the conditions for debility, then moralizes about dependency. It’s how the system protects its own value logic.
"From the moment you are born, the great machine begins to notch its teeth into you, measuring the span of your usefulness against the curve of your eventual collapse."
@reallandsend.bsky.social what an opening to a 🔥 essay on disability as a political relation produced by capitalism.
@reallandsend.bsky.social what an opening to a 🔥 essay on disability as a political relation produced by capitalism.
To take disability seriously is to understand how capital constructs & manages life, justifies abandonment, austerity & slow death. Read the whole essay here
An Iron Sky Pressing Down
The Phenomenology and Political Economy of Expected Impairments
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August 22, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"From the moment you are born, the great machine begins to notch its teeth into you, measuring the span of your usefulness against the curve of your eventual collapse."
@reallandsend.bsky.social what an opening to a 🔥 essay on disability as a political relation produced by capitalism.
@reallandsend.bsky.social what an opening to a 🔥 essay on disability as a political relation produced by capitalism.
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The BMA said NO to Palantir today!
June 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The BMA said NO to Palantir today!
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🚨URGENT: write to your MP - help release the Madleen crew now!
Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a
@GazaFFlotilla
boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board.
Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/
Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a
@GazaFFlotilla
boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board.
Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/
June 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
🚨URGENT: write to your MP - help release the Madleen crew now!
Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a
@GazaFFlotilla
boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board.
Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/
Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a
@GazaFFlotilla
boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board.
Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/
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The Mental Health & Social Justice Network are organising a meeting with service users and workers involved in Trieste’s Mental Health ecology in London this Saturday 14/6/25. All welcome to come and discuss the radical, liberatory possibilities. Free registration: lu.ma/uoecy4jz?loc...
June 9, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Mental Health & Social Justice Network are organising a meeting with service users and workers involved in Trieste’s Mental Health ecology in London this Saturday 14/6/25. All welcome to come and discuss the radical, liberatory possibilities. Free registration: lu.ma/uoecy4jz?loc...
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People talk about “benefits culture” like it’s some scam.
You know what the real scandal is?
That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove you’re disabled again and again just to survive.
Labour were supposed to be better, not worse.
#TakingThePIP
You know what the real scandal is?
That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove you’re disabled again and again just to survive.
Labour were supposed to be better, not worse.
#TakingThePIP
June 1, 2025 at 7:46 AM
People talk about “benefits culture” like it’s some scam.
You know what the real scandal is?
That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove you’re disabled again and again just to survive.
Labour were supposed to be better, not worse.
#TakingThePIP
You know what the real scandal is?
That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove you’re disabled again and again just to survive.
Labour were supposed to be better, not worse.
#TakingThePIP
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Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising 💥📣
🗓️ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
📍 The Advocacy Academy, London
Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...
🗓️ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
📍 The Advocacy Academy, London
Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...
Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising
Join us for a day of action and workshops to resist Prevent. Co-hosted by Amnesty, Liberty, Maslaha, MedAct, No More Exclusions and RSI.
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June 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising 💥📣
🗓️ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
📍 The Advocacy Academy, London
Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...
🗓️ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm
📍 The Advocacy Academy, London
Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...
“The first step is to strip away the concept of heroism, perfectionism and rescue. Solidarity is a relationship of error, of small steps, of building for the future.”
Brilliant ep @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social Sarah Schulman
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Brilliant ep @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social Sarah Schulman
endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...
May 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“The first step is to strip away the concept of heroism, perfectionism and rescue. Solidarity is a relationship of error, of small steps, of building for the future.”
Brilliant ep @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social Sarah Schulman
endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...
Brilliant ep @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social Sarah Schulman
endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the...
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More than 50 disabled people’s organisations have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new #Labour government.
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Equality watchdog must investigate ‘urgent threat’ posed by Labour policies, say DPOs
More than 50 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new Labo…
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May 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
More than 50 disabled people’s organisations have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new #Labour government.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/equality-wat...
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/equality-wat...
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🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade.
Read more👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...
Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade.
Read more👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...
Over 100 Disabled People's Mass Lobby of MPs to Resist Benefit Cuts
www.disabilityrightsuk.org
May 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨
Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade.
Read more👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...
Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade.
Read more👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...
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The DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper proposes cuts to disability benefits we believe would be devastating. One of the organisations we work with, @gmcdp.bsky.social, has created a petition, calling on the Government to drop these proposals.
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy
The DWP Green Paper Pathways to Work proposes what we think are devastating cuts to disability benefits. We think the Government must drop these proposals and instead begin a process of co-production ...
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May 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper proposes cuts to disability benefits we believe would be devastating. One of the organisations we work with, @gmcdp.bsky.social, has created a petition, calling on the Government to drop these proposals.
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
"Most people will be disabled at some point in their life. Welfare is one way of recognising everyone has needs, that all of us live interdependently rather than independently."
Alice Hattrick's brilliant essay on ableism, art and the latest attacks on disabled people.
artreview.com/disability-i...
Alice Hattrick's brilliant essay on ableism, art and the latest attacks on disabled people.
artreview.com/disability-i...
Disability Is Not a Separate Category of Personhood
The disabled experience is increasingly visible in the artworld yet an ableist political landscape is constantly on the attack. This affects us all
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May 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"Most people will be disabled at some point in their life. Welfare is one way of recognising everyone has needs, that all of us live interdependently rather than independently."
Alice Hattrick's brilliant essay on ableism, art and the latest attacks on disabled people.
artreview.com/disability-i...
Alice Hattrick's brilliant essay on ableism, art and the latest attacks on disabled people.
artreview.com/disability-i...
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Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
Elbit Systems: war criminals and genocidaires face financial woes
“An unfortunate tendency to crash”
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May 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
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Disabled people and their organisations MUST be fully involved in reviews of: WCA, PIP assessment process, Safeguarding, employer & employee support & Access to Work.
Sign our open letter now: buff.ly/TJI8pM6
#ItsTimeForInclusion
Sign our open letter now: buff.ly/TJI8pM6
#ItsTimeForInclusion
May 21, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Disabled people and their organisations MUST be fully involved in reviews of: WCA, PIP assessment process, Safeguarding, employer & employee support & Access to Work.
Sign our open letter now: buff.ly/TJI8pM6
#ItsTimeForInclusion
Sign our open letter now: buff.ly/TJI8pM6
#ItsTimeForInclusion
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Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain.
May 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain.
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'I think this is one of the main remits here – a dialogue between the speaker and the listener, the reader and the writer, the disabled and the non-disabled.’ – Richard Downes, @disabilityarts.bsky.social, on @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus.
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Versus Versus: anthology of 100 disabled poets that demands to be heard - Disability Arts Online
Richard Downes reviews Versus Versus an anthology of 100 poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent poets, edited by writer, editor and disability advocate Rachael Boast.
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May 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
'I think this is one of the main remits here – a dialogue between the speaker and the listener, the reader and the writer, the disabled and the non-disabled.’ – Richard Downes, @disabilityarts.bsky.social, on @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus.
disabilityarts.online/magazine/rev...
disabilityarts.online/magazine/rev...
This was (as always) a fantastic and timely episode. Made me think deeply about the injustices of labour in healthcare and the artificial and unhelpful capital-driven divide between those who give and receive care. Highly recommended for anyone interested in health justice.
Callum Cant describes the history of workers inquiry, a form of research in which workers take the lead, and explains why it should be central to our movements.
EPISODE 71: WORKERS INQUIRY IN THE CARE ECONOMY
LINK BELOW !
EPISODE 71: WORKERS INQUIRY IN THE CARE ECONOMY
LINK BELOW !
May 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This was (as always) a fantastic and timely episode. Made me think deeply about the injustices of labour in healthcare and the artificial and unhelpful capital-driven divide between those who give and receive care. Highly recommended for anyone interested in health justice.
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It was Youth Demand who tried to disrupt genocidal Israel's Eurovision performance
Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
It was Youth Demand who tried to disrupt genocidal Israel's Eurovision performance
Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza
www.thecanary.co
May 19, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It was Youth Demand who tried to disrupt genocidal Israel's Eurovision performance
Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...