6/6 Finally it’s the honour of a lifetime to be awarded the Honour Fellowship of @rcpsych 🙏🏽@DrAdrianJames & the Nominations Committee for this acknowledgment of my work. Will continue doing all I can to ensure quality, equality & equity for ppl accessing & working in MH services
connect with people locally, nationally, internationally. To play, activate & kindly, closely, creatively develop an artistic programme with people at the heart. To develop places, spaces & activity intersectionally and experimentally WITH people to bring relevance, compassion /2
Thanks, love ❤️ and huge appreciation to everyone I’ve had the great honour to work beside over the last 4 years.
Thanks @JusticeMuseum for enabling me to turn you inside out. To build a kind, courageous creative team.
To disrupt the status quo, spill out onto the streets /1
May we remember and celebrate the lives of Barnaby Webber, Grace Kumar and Ian Coates.
Nottingham lost three wonderful and cherished members of our community.
My heart goes out to all who loved them. May they rest in peace.
What an evening! Many thanks to @garyyounge for being even more amazing in real life, and @FiveLeavesBooks + @SquirePAC for hosting such a nurturing, thought-provoking and inspiring evening (and yes, we get to read it 8 days before it's launched!) #DispatchesFromTheDiaspora
Thank you @garyyounge & @FiveLeavesBooks for such an interesting, stimulating & hopeful evening. Much needed in these times. Looking forward to reading ‘Dispatches from the Diaspora’.
An excellent article by @MarinaHyde
Don’t tell me that David Carrick’s crimes were ‘unbelievable’. The problem is victims aren’t believed theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
People of working age who have a terminal illness are twice as likely to spend their final year of life in poverty. Paying them their pension would go some way to addressing this.
Surely it’s a no brainer?!
@Ashgate_Hospice @APCSW1 theguardian.com/money/2023/jan…
In Nottingham, and the rest of the country, much of this can be traced back to austerity politics. The impact of austerity on health has been enormous.
My long-read investigating austerity and health in Nottingham here:
bma.org.uk/news-and-opini…