Here are all the articles, blogs, vlogs, and podcasts (and more) that we’ve shared in our weekly bulletins this month. The main focus of this section in our bulletin is to share new, first person pieces written or made by people within and beyond our membership who have lived experience of mental ill-health, trauma, or distress, as well as relevant articles about news and policy in mental health from sources such as Disability News Service.
We’ll be posting this roundup at the end of each month as a way to further bring together, amplify and also archive current, lived experience-focussed voices and perspectives in mental health.
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Paul Lodge
Interview via Biopolitical Philosophy.
NSUN’s June 2024 articles & blogs roundup
Blog by and via NSUN.
DWP staff fail in two-fifths of cases to meet new standards aimed at stopping deaths
A blog by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Benefits claimants have been treated as a political punching bag this general election
Article by Mikey Erhardt via Big Issue.
Always about me without me: being a patient who isn’t part of the equation
Blog by Zahra via NSUN.
Six days and 19,000 words into a new government, and just one mention of disability… then DWP claimant-blaming begins again
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
More than just mad: Survivors as knowers
Blog by Tamsin Walker via MadZines.
Studied without consent
Blog post by and via Stop Oxevision.
NSUN responds to the inclusion of Mental Health Act reform in the King’s Speech
Article by and via NSUN.
The attack on welfare: from disability benefits to asylum support
Article by Sophia Siddiqui via Institute of Race Relations.
Labour government sidelines disabled people in first king’s speech
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
Disabled activists pledge ‘no hiding place’ for Labour’s new government
Article by John Pring via Disability News Service.
‘Urgent Social Security Reform Needed’ DR UK Letter to New Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Letter by and via Disability Rights UK.
Queer Identities and Self-Harm: Conquering Shame
A blog via Self injury Support.
Three Uncomfortable Truths Grassroots Movements need Funders to Understand
A blog by Evie Muir via Synergi.