Elspeth Mitchell
@elspethmitchell.bsky.social
Feminism & Visual Culture, Fan of Fungi
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Disabled people have unnecessarily died in their 1000s because of cruel and dehumanising process of welfare assessment and the pittance given if you are deemed disabled 'enough'. The UKs recent decision to cut disability payments will only cause more death and suffering.
“The horrifying practices of the DWP are brought into sharp focus, the consequences so predictable it is difficult to conclude they were not deliberate.”
The Department by John Pring reviewed in Counterfire
The Department by John Pring reviewed in Counterfire
The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence – book review
Pring’s The Department shows how the Department of Welfare and Pensions, with the aid of the media and politicians, created a system of social murder, finds Terina Hine Hundreds, if not thousands,…
www.counterfire.org
May 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Disabled people have unnecessarily died in their 1000s because of cruel and dehumanising process of welfare assessment and the pittance given if you are deemed disabled 'enough'. The UKs recent decision to cut disability payments will only cause more death and suffering.
Judith Butler: This Is Wrong www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Judith Butler · This Is Wrong: Executive Order 14168
When diversity, equity and inclusion become ‘threats’ to the order of society, progressive politics in general is...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Judith Butler: This Is Wrong www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Moving from natural position of lurker on these platforms to share this event at the BFI on the work of Chantal Akerman. I'll be speaking in the afternoon but the rest of the day is a stunning line up ending with B. Ruby Rich!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Buy cinema tickets for Chantal Akerman Symposium | BFI Southbank
whatson.bfi.org.uk
March 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Moving from natural position of lurker on these platforms to share this event at the BFI on the work of Chantal Akerman. I'll be speaking in the afternoon but the rest of the day is a stunning line up ending with B. Ruby Rich!
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...