Fuel Poverty is a Disability Justice Issue
Today is Fuel Poverty Awareness Day (FPAD). For those already living in Fuel Poverty or experiencing financial insecurity, the...
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Equal Lives
- Nov 13
- 3 min
Dr Katherine Deane on making science labs accessible to all
Equal Lives shared a guest blog back in February, encouraging our members and the wider disability community to participate in the Access...
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Equal Lives
- Oct 20
- 3 min
Save the date for our 2023 AGM
Equal Lives is planning to host its first face-to-face Annual General Meeting (AGM) since 2019, having conducted the previous three...
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Equal Lives
- Oct 16
- 2 min
National Hate Crime Awareness Week
To mark National Hate Crime Awareness Week, Heidi from Norfolk and Suffolk Victim Care has written a guest blog explaining what hate...
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Equal Lives
- Sep 4
- 5 min
The Inequalities of Chronic Pain
In the previous blog of this series, we explored the science of chronic pain and the Biopsychosocial Model that healthcare practitioners...
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Equal Lives
- Aug 24
- 4 min
The Hairdresser
Do you remember when we were in lock-down, and we couldn’t access the hairdressers or barbers? How about all of those Teams meetings with...
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Equal Lives
- Jul 31
- 2 min
I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me - A Volunteer's reflection on Disability Pride
It’s Disability Pride Month, so I thought I would share my story as a disabled person to explain what Disability Pride means to me. I’m...
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Equal Lives
- Jul 24
- 3 min
3 Tips for Managing Sensory Overload
Sensitivity to Sound I have a sensitivity to sound which I believe to be linked to also having OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder). I...
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Equal Lives
- Jul 3
- 4 min
What is Disability Pride Month?
(Content warning: discussion of ableism, very brief mentions of abuse, negligence, suicide, eugenics, and bullying). July marks the...
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Equal Lives
- Jun 23
- 2 min
A tribute to Kate Wyatt, by Shaun McGarry, Chair
One of our longest serving Trustees, Kate Wyatt, recently passed away peacefully after contracting an infection. Kate was a Trustee for...
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Equal Lives
- Jun 5
- 4 min
The DWP's brutal approach worsened my capacity to work
Content warning: This blog will mention suicide throughout. Many years ago, I became too unwell to work and my life unraveled in a matter...
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Equal Lives
- May 25
- 4 min
The science of chronic pain
In the first of our series on chronic pain, we looked at the definition of chronic pain (recurrent or lingering pain lasting longer than...
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Equal Lives
- May 18
- 3 min
The time I lost to dissociation
Content warning: This blog mentions abuse, specifically childhood abuse throughout. Due to childhood trauma, I developed dissociation as...
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Equal Lives
- May 8
- 3 min
What is chronic pain?
Chronic pain is an odd phenomenon. I had no idea just how odd until it became a part of my life. This is the first of a series of blogs...
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