Dr Anna Stenning

tupress.temple.edu/books/disabili… includes a chapter by me, on Edward Thomas: 'The Superfluous Who “Neither Produce like the Poor nor Consume like the Rich”: Eugenics and the “Coloniality of Ability” in Edward Thomas’s The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans (1913)'

The timing is perfect, after yesterday's horrific green paper. Thanks to the @AmnestyUK annual media awards for shortlisting my investigation into how #DWP spent years covering up evidence linking it with countless deaths of disabled benefit claimants: disabilitynewsservice.com/deaths-lies-an…

From “moral deficiency” to “economic inactivity,” welfare reform rebrands eugenic thinking. Disability reframed as failure of character, sanctions replacing sterilisation. The fit are rewarded, the rest made disposable. #DisabilityJustice #WelfareReform

If you want to write to your Labour MP about disability benefit cuts but have limited spoons, here’s a template from @sensecharity you can use: action.sense.org.uk/page/167765/ac… Public backlash *does* work at times so let’s keep the pressure up. You too, non-disabled allies!

Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else. A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

I NEED you to care about disability on your campus, because headlines are calling for people with disabilities to: lose access to education, lose access to heslthcare, lose access to welfare, be forcibly sterilized. 1/3

Leadbeater repeatedly told me and other opponents of assisted dying that the bill's judicial oversight requirements made it the safest in the world Now she's scrapped them MPs need to vote down this dangerous nonsense of a bill theguardian.com/society/2025/f…

Disabled man self-harms in public and dies after losing #PIP, but #DWP silent on 30 years of safeguarding failures disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-man-s…

Recruiting autistic university students to fill a 1-hour questionnaire about their support experiences at university. Please scan the QR code or directly email at emine.gurbuz@port.ac.uk to know more about the study and participate! Please RT @UoP_CIDD

@nomadic_symptom @LouiseCreechan @BergenMar @BloomsburyAcad bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-ne…

Our @itdfproject issue is now the current @MedHums_BMJ publication. It's a wonderful collection of approaches to disability, technology and the future and I'm proud that so many contributors are disabled non-academics and recognised here as researchers. mh.bmj.com/content/50/4?c…

@owenjonesjourno I recommend getting a referral to an gastroenterologist because it could take some time to figure out what is going on (I've had recent personal experience of this). I also recommend asking for blood tests and stool pathogen tests including h pylori.

OK so, against my better judgement, I've developed some health issue and wanted to see if anyone else has gone through this in the hope you can help... First thing on Monday it felt like I had heartburn when I ate, so I started taking Gaviscon. Anyway, it got worse and worse. On Tuesday morning I got some Omeprazole (20mg). Throughout the day, a burning sensation in my stomach became a constant. In the evening, it got a lot worse, and got combined with a very bad headache. We called 111, they wanted to send an ambulance, but went to A&E on our own steam, they did an ECG which was all normal. They prescribed Lansoprazole 30mg and Dihydrocodeine 30mg. I saw my GP yesterday, and he ruled out e.g. stomach perforation or ulcer. He thought it oesophagitis, though pointed out that just meant my oesophagus was inflamed for an unknown reason. He did say he'd never come across such a severe case before and found that curious but didn't think necessarily meant cause for an alarm. But despite being on treatment, I had the worst night last night - thanks to severe burning pain in my stomach. I haven't had a meal since Tuesday afternoon, and eating even tiny amounts of food sets off hideous levels of stomach burning. Drinking water is a struggle - I can only get away with sipping, otherwise, again, it's unbelievably painful. I don't have any other symptoms at all. I don't feel nauseous in the slightest. I actually feel hungry and would love to eat a proper meal. My energy levels are pretty good given the circumstances. So basically what the fuck is going on here? I'm actually now clinging on to a Gaviscon allergy - that I did have mild heartburn and I've been drinking poison without realising it, and if I stop taking it, things will go back to normal. When I take it - e.g. before going to bed last night - it burned badly and seemed to set off the severe pain. But I don't know if that's just because anything I ingest sets it off. Sorry to throw this at you but I'm obviously a bit fed up about it all and would love to find out if anyone else has gone through this or there's any pointers...

In this symposia, we ask the question: How does your area of research engage with disability in the geopolitical south and challenge dominant epistemologies and paradigms of disability?

@Camelgod3 Rheumatology is currently seeing patients from last August so could be a while before I find out. I struggle with how inconsistent care is - I've been stuck in the middle of 'it's all mechanical' and 'it's inflammation' between consultants. I get blue badge but no mobility PIP.

@Camelgod3 Agreed! I've tried a first DMARD but was struggling to function and had Covid three times. They wanted to try a second DMARd before biologics. I then went on Celacoxib for a while until I had stomach issues. I've had my first joint replacement and want to avoid too much of that.

I have osteoarthritis and have been told I have inflammatory arthritis and hypermobility. I've had to make many adjustments to my life. If you have arthritis, what do you wish other people knew about it but don't? And what changes would you like to happen around care and support?