Sara Upstone
@saraupstone.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary Literature and Director Postgraduate Research, Kingston School of Art. Researching transglossic literature, disability, social and environmental justice. All views my own.
Masking against Covid until no one has to.
Masking against Covid until no one has to.
I keep reading that disabled people don’t need to worry about the assisted dying bill because we can trust abled bodied people to protect us.
I’d find it easier to accept if these people were wearing masks instead of allowing 100s of vulnerable people to die each week from a preventable infection.
I’d find it easier to accept if these people were wearing masks instead of allowing 100s of vulnerable people to die each week from a preventable infection.
November 30, 2024 at 11:55 PM
I keep reading that disabled people don’t need to worry about the assisted dying bill because we can trust abled bodied people to protect us.
I’d find it easier to accept if these people were wearing masks instead of allowing 100s of vulnerable people to die each week from a preventable infection.
I’d find it easier to accept if these people were wearing masks instead of allowing 100s of vulnerable people to die each week from a preventable infection.
It’s cold and I am tired. So today I find myself writing emails on a laptop sat in a four poster bed under a William Morris bedspread. This sums up the massive disjunction between the time I’d feel comfortable in and the one I am trapped in. Would anyone like me to hand write them a letter instead?
November 30, 2024 at 1:22 PM
It’s cold and I am tired. So today I find myself writing emails on a laptop sat in a four poster bed under a William Morris bedspread. This sums up the massive disjunction between the time I’d feel comfortable in and the one I am trapped in. Would anyone like me to hand write them a letter instead?
Reposted by Sara Upstone
“As someone who relies on the state for my survival, I have a healthy distrust of giving it any more power over my life than it already has. Though some people want the right to die, many of us are still fighting for the right to exist.”
Must read by Liz Carr: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Must read by Liz Carr: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot | Liz Carr
Two friends recently woke up in hospital to find ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders on their notes. We’re all too aware that some lives aren’t valued as much as others, says the actor and disability rights a...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 6:35 PM
“As someone who relies on the state for my survival, I have a healthy distrust of giving it any more power over my life than it already has. Though some people want the right to die, many of us are still fighting for the right to exist.”
Must read by Liz Carr: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Must read by Liz Carr: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Sara Upstone
MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot | Liz Carr
MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot | Liz Carr
Two friends recently woke up in hospital to find ‘Do not resuscitate’ orders on their notes. We’re all too aware that some lives aren’t valued as much as others
It’s a cold November evening, and MPs are no doubt snuggled up wondering what to watch on TV…
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 3:38 PM
MPs may trust doctors to manage assisted dying. Disabled people like me cannot | Liz Carr
Reposted by Sara Upstone
My statement on the Assisted Dying Bill.
November 29, 2024 at 9:24 AM
My statement on the Assisted Dying Bill.
Tim Fallon speaking today on the assisted dying bill reported that European countries without such provision spend three times as much on palliative care than those who have it. If these figures are true we have just dramatically reduced the possibility of good deaths for everyone in the UK.
November 29, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Tim Fallon speaking today on the assisted dying bill reported that European countries without such provision spend three times as much on palliative care than those who have it. If these figures are true we have just dramatically reduced the possibility of good deaths for everyone in the UK.
I have spent all afternoon writing about the work of Rory Pilgrim and the feeling I have right now is that if the whole world were a Rory Pilgrim art installation everything would be so much better.
November 17, 2024 at 4:22 PM
I have spent all afternoon writing about the work of Rory Pilgrim and the feeling I have right now is that if the whole world were a Rory Pilgrim art installation everything would be so much better.
If you missed my picture of Guinevere yesterday this is her brother Lancelot. He’s a bit more skeptical than his sister but today even he thinks this place is worth posting on.
November 16, 2024 at 11:18 PM
If you missed my picture of Guinevere yesterday this is her brother Lancelot. He’s a bit more skeptical than his sister but today even he thinks this place is worth posting on.
1) transglossic storytelling and the response of contemporary narratives to the scale of 21st century crises
2) neurodivergent narrative ethics
2) neurodivergent narrative ethics
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) time travelling women and historical fiction. (With a minor in rewriting histfic poetics.)
2) meta KU/spicy fic
1) time travelling women and historical fiction. (With a minor in rewriting histfic poetics.)
2) meta KU/spicy fic
#AcademicSky, let's get to know each other! Quote this with: 1) a project you're working on & 2) an idea you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) #Bonktastic #Bonkbusters! #JackieCollins #JillyCooper #ShirleyConran #JudithKrantz et al
2) #Histsex and made for TV #melodrama and #soapopera
1) #Bonktastic #Bonkbusters! #JackieCollins #JillyCooper #ShirleyConran #JudithKrantz et al
2) #Histsex and made for TV #melodrama and #soapopera
November 16, 2024 at 9:36 PM
1) transglossic storytelling and the response of contemporary narratives to the scale of 21st century crises
2) neurodivergent narrative ethics
2) neurodivergent narrative ethics
She may look skeptical but Guinevere likes it here.
November 14, 2024 at 11:50 PM
She may look skeptical but Guinevere likes it here.
Just arrived from the other place. On the platform, looking for literary, creative writing and critical theory friends. I am a bit shy so if that’s you then please follow me and I’ll follow back.
October 3, 2023 at 2:02 PM
Just arrived from the other place. On the platform, looking for literary, creative writing and critical theory friends. I am a bit shy so if that’s you then please follow me and I’ll follow back.