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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 10d

I was on bbc's The One Show last night talking about my art commission from Hospital Rooms to create a sculpture along with other artists for Hellesdon Hospital www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

The One Show - 29/09/2025

Sir Gary Oldman and Nick Knowles join Alex and Roman on the sofa. Plus, after reaching World Cup glory, England’s Red Roses Zoe Aldcroft, Rosie Galligan and Zoe Harrison are in the studio.

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 20d

that'll do 😁

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 20d

aww thank you very much, do I get a puppy?

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · 21d

was interviewed by @johnpring.bsky.social for Disability News Serivce about my response to the far right gathering last weekend, and my disappointment that racist disabled people don't see they will be victims of fascism too
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo...

Disabled people of colour speak of terror and safety fears after mass far-right protest

Disabled people of colour say last weekend’s “horrific” far-right protest in London has left them feeling terrified and unsafe. Saturday’s protest was supposedly aimed at “free speech” but most of …

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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voice of the psychiatrized @nycicarusorg.myatproto.social · Jun 21

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Got this lovely @dollysen.bsky.social book about Lorina Bulwer, workhouse captive, after her life turned. She sewed sheets & scraps of cloth into a narrative of her life in text & images. Dolly provides her own narrative about Lorina's life & madness.

Lorina Bulwer | by Dolly Sen

Lorina Bulwer is Dolly Sen's polemical exploration of madness, material, and the life of Lorina Bulwer: a needleworker incarcerated in the...

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Michelle Moore @trebula.bsky.social · Jun 20

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · Jun 15

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buy this book of words by rageful women, inspired by Lorina Bulwer, for only £2.50

Dear Lorina (Anthology)

Dear Lorina is an anthology of creative writing from participants in local artist Dolly Sen's 2025 project on the legacy of Lorina Bulwer: a...

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · Jun 8

Will be doing this on weds 11th June, discussing textile art and resistance

a poster in white, beiges and grey with collaged images are behind the text saying: Social Frabric, Material Conditions and Practices of Resistence. An online discussion, zoom, June 11 2025. There is a qr code to register interest

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · May 11

Go see work inspired by the legacy of Lorina Bulwer, the infamous needleworker who embroidered her rage onto samplers. We invite you to meet the rage of women's voices through an updated re-creation of Lorina's famous tapestry reflecting the voices of women in 2025 at Primeyarc in Great Yarmouth!

Dolly Sen, a brown person with dark hair and tattoo, wearing black jeans and a blue and rainbow coloured tshirt stands in front of 6 long multicoloured embroidered samplers on a white wall

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · Apr 25

Rachel Reeves bending down patronisingly to talk to a middle aged wheelchair user, Rachel says: We want to stop your benefits to pay for bombs to make other people disabled

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · Apr 9

My piece on assisted suicide but also assisted joy for Healing Justice London

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Assisted Suicide / Assisted Joy - DJ 1 - Healing Justice Ldn

By Dolly Sen

healingjusticeldn.org

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · Apr 3

The British Film Institute have offered to sell my Disability Film Analysis Tools zine in their shop. It is free online here : files.libcom.org/files/2024-0...

Disability Film Analysis Tools
Disability Action Research Kollective

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Mar 29

From the book Bullshit Jobs.

Page 213

"In fact, not only does the market assessment
of the value of different forms of work not
correspond to popular conceptions of what
they actually contribute to society, but there
actually seems to be an inverse relation: with
few exceptions, the principle seems to be, the
more one’s work is seen as socially useful, the
more it is recognized as helping others, the less
one is likely to be paid for it."
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- David Graeber

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · Mar 27

Here to be a resource to those fighting disability benefits cuts, that I was part of.

Research on the benefit system and how the catastrophic effects it has on people with mental health.

www.kcl.ac.uk/reforming-uk...

Transforming UK Social Security: A Call for Compassion and Change

The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB) highlight the struggles of navigating the UK

www.kcl.ac.uk

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ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health @kingscsmh.bsky.social · Mar 26

📑 Replacing a punitive social security model with one rooted in compassion could save lives. Find out more in this piece by the @kingscsmh.bsky.social's Lived Experience Advisory Board
#CompassionAndChange #CompassionAndChange #SpringStatement

www.kcl.ac.uk/reforming-uk...

Transforming UK Social Security: A Call for Compassion and Change

The ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health’s Lived Experience Advisory Board (LEAB) highlight the struggles of navigating the UK

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · Mar 25

The art mag Frieze has published a piece by a disabled artist about the proposed benefits cut that includes a couple of my doodlings.

www.frieze.com/article/uk-w...

‘We Must Resist’: UK Welfare Cuts Will Harm Disabled Artists

As the Labour government plans to reduce essential support, artists and writers speak out about how the changes will affect them

www.frieze.com

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · Mar 21

A disabled art activist has sent a powerful message to Labour over its DWP benefit cuts

Dolly Sen is sending Labour a clear, and harrowing message that its DWP cuts will lead to countless more deaths of disabled people.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

A disabled art activist has sent a powerful message to Labour over its DWP benefit cuts

A disabled art activist has sent a powerful message to Labour over its DWP benefit cuts from Canary on 21 March 2025

www.thecanary.co

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · Mar 22

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I think it is timely to re-share my short documentary on how the DWP is driving disabled people to starvation and suicide. Please share x

Broken Hearts for the DWP - Subtitled version

YouTube video by Dolly Sen

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · Mar 19

I was commissioned by @dadafest.bsky.social to make a sculpture, and I made one out of charity collecting cans to spell out the word 'RAGE'. I made a film of me making the sculpture and reciting my poem 'We Need More Disabled Rage'

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I Want More Disabled Rage

YouTube video by Dolly Sen

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EveryDoctor @everydoctor.org.uk · Mar 18

BREAKING🚨 -We've investigated the financial links between MPs and the private health sector, and can now announce which MP received the highest donation amount from individuals+companies with links to the private health sector between 2023-2025.

It's Wes Streeting. Our Health Secretary. £179,575🚨

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Dolly Sen @dollysen.bsky.social · Mar 18

My 4 min video on proposed disability benefits cuts as a disabled person who works with the help of PIP, & how this is continuing previous governments' killing of disabled people through brutal DWP systems and policies.

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Benefit Cuts Will Kill

YouTube video by Dolly Sen

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Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social · Mar 13

Government Strategy Explained.

Three circle Venn diagram, showing: Benefit cuts, Social care crisis, and Assisted dying. With the cumulative intersection being: Disability Democide!

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Craig Berry @craigpberry.bsky.social · Mar 11

Looking ahead to the disability benefits green paper, this essay for @citizensadvice.bsky.social makes the case for a system focused on improving health outcomes.

Co-authors @maddyirose.bsky.social, @victoria-anns.bsky.social & Simon Collerton

We challenge the 5 big falsehoods underpinning cuts…🧵

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Dr Jay Watts (they/she) @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Mar 11

Reliable source at the highest possible level has just told me huge increase in calls to suicide helplines because of the threatened benefits cuts.

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Dr Jay Watts (they/she) @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · Mar 7

Dear Policy Exchange,

PIP is not an out-of-work benefit. So why are you trying to score political points by insisting young people on #PIP must work, volunteer or go into training?

PIP enables disabled people to do these things. Cutting it will do the opposite.

Thanks
Dr Watts

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