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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 15d

www.turn2us.org.uk/policy-campa...

Experiences of the UK social security system

How the experience of accessing benefits support impacts claimants and the overall effectiveness of the social security system.

www.turn2us.org.uk

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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · 17d

important work to be done here :) apply!

National Survivor User Network @nsunnews.bsky.social · 21d

Join NSUN as a trustee, chair or treasurer!

This is an exciting time to help lead the only lived experience-led national mental health charity. If you’re interested in social justice and bringing a critical perspective to the mental health sector, apply by 27/10/25.

www.nsun.org.uk/news/nsun-is...

NSUN is recruiting: Trustees, including Chair and Treasurer

We are looking for trustees, including a Chair and Treasurer, to help lead the only lived experience-led national mental health charity.

www.nsun.org.uk

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Rick B @rickburgess.bsky.social · 23d

FYI Universal Credit for a single person is £4,801.68 per annum for which you will be harassed, coerced and threatened constantly via your own mobile phone by the DWP, while in media you will be called scrounging workshy scum by the LABOUR party.

Big Issue @bigissue.com · 23d

A single person in the UK now needs to earn £30,500 a year to “participate in society” and "live with dignity", new research has found.

Single people must earn at least £30,500 per year to live well in the UK

www.bigissue.com

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · Aug 30

#HousingDiscrimination

Join @shacaction.bsky.social on zoom
Thursday 11th September 2025 at 6.30pm in discussion with Adam Gabsi of @inclusionlondon.bsky.social to discuss discrimination in the housing sector

Details below ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Check it out 📢

SHAC: The Social Housing Action Campaign @shacaction.bsky.social · Aug 30

Join us at 6.30pm on Thursday 11th September in discussion with Adam Gabsi of Inclusion London to discuss discrimination in the housing sector against disabled people, disability benefit cuts, and working together for safe, accessible housing.

Online by Zoom: tinyurl.com/DisVizH

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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · Aug 23

Finally, inspired by Ruha Benjamin’s call for a radical reimagining of what technoscience might look like outside of carcerality, we imagine how mental health technologies could be otherwise. Enter: FishVision cameras

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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · Aug 23

While drawing attention to the oppressive & violent nature of technologies such as Oxevision (now LIO), we ultimately reject the notion that mental health technologies are, in themselves, either ‘good’ or ‘bad’ but inherently entangled with the violent injustices of psychiatry and its carceral tools

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Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · Aug 23

Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com

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Just Em 🏳️‍⚧️ [illegal lesbian] @agirlcalleddave.bsky.social · Jul 28

Sex Matters has managed to raise the 50K to take Hampstead Heath's Ladies' Pond to court for being inclusive. Let's spread the word and encourage people to donate to GoFundMe to help combat this bigotry.

www.gofundme.com/f/working-fo...

Donate to Keep the Ladies Pond Inclusive: Fund Trans Rights, organized by TransLucent Community

Keep Hampstead Heath's Ladies' Pond Inclusive: Fund Trans Righ… TransLucent Community needs your support for Keep the Ladies Pond Inclusive: Fund Trans Rights

www.gofundme.com

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · Jul 28

'In 2022–2023 the number of domestic violence related suicides increased, and outnumbered domestic homicides for the first time. The majority of these suicides (69 of 93, 74%) were in women.'

Womens economic and housing provision is a lifesaving form of liberation.

NCISH @ncish.bsky.social · Jul 28

Read our recently published paper examining the link between domestic violence and suicidality in women. Addressing the impacts of DV is an integral part of #SuicidePrevention
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · Jul 23

acceptance is one thing, positive outcome is another
for ex online / digital tech interventions for adults in mh often have very high level of no completion
i get this is about access but digital by default is how iapt was built, also in the name of access, debatable whether that led to + outcomes

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · Jul 3

Disabled activists warn Labour MPs who vote for cuts: ‘The gloves will be off’
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-act...

Disabled activists warn Labour MPs who vote for cuts: ‘The gloves will be off’

Labour MPs were given their final warning by disabled activists at a sweltering rally outside parliament on Monday that, if they vote for cuts to disability benefits, the “gloves will be off”. Elle…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Dr Jay Watts (they/she) @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Jul 3

The NHS Long Term Plan promised all mental health services would be trauma-informed. The Women’s Mental Health Taskforce said the same. Now, the 10-Year Health Plan doesn’t mention trauma-informed care at all. Such a sad, telling step backwards. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/686639...

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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨BREAKING: MPs have just voted for cuts to social security - with unwritten promises from the UK Government

This is reckless.

Disability rights aren’t optional. Poverty is a political choice. This Govt chose it tonight.

We'll keep fighting until this cruel Bill is rejected completely.

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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · Jun 30

i think the study dr birhane links to in the thread is a good place to start :)

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · Jun 28

#WelfareReformBill

Joint statement rejecting “concessions” in the welfare reform bill by @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social
@dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social
@disrightsuk.bsky.social
@nsunnews.bsky.social
Mad youth demand & Taking The PIP

image is on a black background with white text and black and white logos of supporting organisations of the statement

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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · Jun 29

evolution of MH research → boom of "clinical" technological interventions = very clear example of research to surveillance pipeline

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Jun 25

Are only a few rogue entities and authors powering to surveillance? Nop! We found, across institutions, nations and subfields, the practice of research to surveillance pipeline is a pervasive norm.

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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · Jun 29

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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · Jun 29

Our Green Paper response is clear. This isn't reform. It's cuts disguised as change.

The proposals would:
Push more Disabled people into poverty 📉
Link support to a failing PIP system 🚫
Undermine safety, autonomy & rights ⚠️
📄 buff.ly/RsDE1gx

#TakingThePIP

It is vital that opposition to the Universal Credit and PIP cuts Bill continues. The concessions proposed do nothing to protect those who will acquire conditions in years to come, and create an irrational two-tier system that cannot be justified by the evidence.

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · Jun 17

#NotDeadYet
#KillTheBill

The 3rd reading of the terminally ill adults end of life bill and the vote by MPs is on Friday 20th June 2025

Please write to your MP and raise concerns about the safeguards being watered down and ask them to vote No

Image has a purple, white, red, white background
At the top of the graphic on purple background is a red, purple and white megaphone with black lines coming out of it in white text it says Write to your MP to Vote against on 20th June
On a white background there is an image of an envelope outlined in black in black text next to it says Friday 20th June will be the third reading of the bill this is the big one
On a red background is a black and white image of houses of parliament in white text it says We need as many of us as possible. Write to your MP and ask them to vote against the assisted dying bill
On a white background it says in black text stop the terminally ill adults end of life bill.
The images are of organisations supporting which are not dead yet disability rights uk inclusion london and DPAC

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · Jun 14

#NotDeadYet

DPAC supported Not Dead Yet UK & allies outside parliament as the follow up report stage amendments on the assisted dying bill for terminally ill adults was debated

Activists are at Parliament square where. White banner says Not Dead Yet in Black paint

A yellow placard with black text says kill the bill. Underneath it says vote no in red text

An activist holds a red and white postcard that Says Assist Us to Live Not to Die on it

White banner that says not dead yet is outside before Parliament

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Blue @bluehmgn.bsky.social · Jun 10

whats also "ironic" is that when it comes to caring for distress or supporting neurodivergent ppl suddenly there's not much psychosocial intervention left isn't it?

so thats decades of slashed adult MH social care expenditure on one end and transphobic ban on medical care on the other

Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · Jun 10

Some strong (& fabricated) medical statements here from the Under-Secretary of Health. They state that trans adolescents "will benefit more from a clinical
approach that is focused on psychosocial and psychological support".

Even the Cass Review doesn't claim that trans adolescents "benefit more"

Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · Jun 9

For anyone tracking stuff about puberty blockers...

Correspondence from the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Patient Safety, Women's Health
committees.parliament.uk/committee/32...

This relates to the @commonswec.parliament.uk evidence session: committees.parliament.uk/work/8787/ev...

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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · May 22

#ConsultASham

@leedsdpac.bsky.social held a protest in Leeds outside the venue where the disability green paper consultation on benefit cuts was taking place. One of the activists managed to get in & have their say. There was only 15 attendees in the meeting.
It was indeed a consult-a-sham

Activists hold a blue banner and are surrounded by activists holding benefit cuts kill placards

Disabled activists hold a blue banner and placards outside the disability green paper consultation in Leeds

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · May 14

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

DDPOs Plan UN Complaint Against Assisted Dying Bill

Declaring the Assisted Dying Bill violates the UN Convention on the Rights of Disabled People (UNCRPD), DDPOs are supporting 2 claimants who's lives will be affected if it becomes law

www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/ddpos-p...

DDPOs Plan UN Complaint Against Assisted Dying Bill

www.disabilityrightsuk.org

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · May 14

Our member, a care home manager, was asked today to estimate how many disabled residents might be eligible for medically-assisted suicide under the Leadbeater bill and how many places might be freed-up if the option was 'assertively marketed'. Is this the future you want in England?

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · May 8

🚨Join our MASS LOBBY against benefit cuts!🚨

📅Wednesday 21st May
⏲️12 - 4pm
📍Westminster Lobby, Jubilee Room

Share far and wide, and learn more about getting involved on our website 💥 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/mass-lo...

ALT TEXT: Join us! Mass lobby against benefit cuts
Wednesday, 21st May
12 - 4pm
Westminster Lobby, Jubilee Hall
Image of protestors with placards that say 'ruils against benefit cuts', 'no more benefit cuts' and 'stop killing us'

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