Lisybabe's Blog

Historically it's been the case that the single word to describe disability-based discrimination in British English has been "disab...

Lots of people are celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher which is pretty crass. I've lost my mum and it doesn't matter how grow...

"I wish you'd never been born." I remember the Sunday morning a couple of years ago when a well-known pro-eugenics tweeter w...

I want to say "thank you" to those of you who put me on this year's Independent on Sunday Pink List : Their annual list of the...

Sometimes a news story is so big people use the expression "you'd have to be living under a rock" in order to have not heard a...

Well... my jaw pain, allegedly. Getting told that your physical condition is psychosomatic is disturbingly common . In the past it's ...

During our recent spurt of summer, having spent 3 days splayed helplessly on the sofa, I decided I wanted to go for a swim in the open air t...

Ken Livingstone’s approach to public transport in London changed my life. __________________ I was eleven when I went to Disneyworld: A c...

Choose and book can go fuck themselves. Seriously. That's now 2 hospital referrals they've rejected for me. Budget hoarding bastards...

First they came for the disableds, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't disabled. Then they came for the NHS, and I didn'...

Last week was a pretty ordinary week for me. On Monday morning I got up and went to see my GP so he could refer me to yet another specialist...

I don't often do angry. I'm quite lazy and anger is a very energy-intensive emotion. But International Women's Day today is mak...

Been doing some media whoring the last few days talking about the blue badge reforms that came into effect yesterday. First there was BBC ...

In the late-ish 90s I was doing my A Levels for the bazillionth time (ever indecisive I couldn't just pick a subject and stick with it. ...

There has been much talk over the last few months about the irony of Atos doing the computing for next year’s Paralympics . People thought t...