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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Freedom from criticism is quite the opposite to freedom of speech.

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Freedom of speech has never been the freedom to speak without consequence. Freedom of speech means freedom from interference, harassment, i...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Who would play you in the movie of your life?

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This conversational game, common among young teenagers, had two separate sets of rules for me. At school, the game was an exercise in vanity...
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Friday, May 01, 2015

Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015

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Welcome to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015! Thanks very much to everyone who helped to spread the word and to those who have already t...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015 will be on Friday, 1st May

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Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015 is now underway. Please click here to see this year's blogs. The tenth annual Blogging Agains...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Of course we'd blame cancer for plane crash deaths

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Discusses suicide and stigma of illness. Alistair Campbell wrote an article condemning media speculation about the mental health of Andrea...
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Monday, March 23, 2015

Mother's Day, 2010

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I had read that you should try to write fiction with just one particular reader in mind, even if your reader is an entirely imaginary perso...
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Saturday, March 07, 2015

Two fat men: fictional bodies as metaphor and identity

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I’ve been thinking about bodies, metaphor and identity, in the context of two very different stories; J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy and ...
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