From the blog

“You’re obviously not as happy with your body as you make out”

I was going to tweet about this, but realised it would be far too long to fit into even a series of tweets. In a massive misrepresentation of what the body positive movement is about I got sent this tweet.

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How not to recover from a social media fail, feat Scarlett and Jo

Putting this all in one place for an easy read. Scarlett and Jo have posted some ill advised comments tonight, which were bad but damage limitation could have helped, instead they decided to pour fuel on the fire – and when I say fuel, think more gunpowder than lighter fluid.

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#TheAbleistScript

If you follow me on Twitter then you’ll have seen this already. There is a hashtag about Ableist speech and attitudes, it’s full of quotes that have been said to disabled people, as well as more generalised examples of how disabled people are treated.

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Social Services vs. actual support Pt. 2

So earlier today I wrote a post about the problems we’d been having with social services, I’ve already got more to add to it. In this one I’m going to talk about how health visitors need to drastically improve their training, and how social services need to quit pretending they[…]

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