Wordy and Wheely
The whimsical wafflings of a wordsmith on wheels. A newsletter continuation of my previous blog, "Wordy and Wheely" charts the joys and struggles of navigating culture, creativity, and a career in both, whilst disabled, neurodivergent, queer and trans.
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Worky and Wheely #14: The Value of Being Valued (opens the original)
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Hullo my lovely readersA content note for reference to systemic ableism and disableism, and to health and care assessments, as well as vaguely grief and trauma but within the context of careful and care-ful professional environmentsThank you for your patience with my pausing last week. In that letter, I shared that I had been given the gift of an unexpected offer of creative work.I also shared that it required learning lines.I’m not sure I can reveal the particulars of the project publicly at th
A Restful Reprise (opens the original)
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Hullo my lovely readersContent note for brief reference to chronic painSincere thanks for your thoughtful responses to last week’s letter.It was a very vulnerable one for me to write.But that makes it extra meaningful to know it has apparently resonated so strongly with the delightfully compassionate community that has done me the great honour of gathering around Wordy and Wheely.
Worky and Wheely #13: The Easier Part? (opens the original)
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Hullo my lovely readersContent note for reference to care assessments and funding, and also to chronic pain and fatigue, as well as grief and traumaThis letter is arriving late in the (UK) day, with wishes for a gentle and peaceful year ahead to anyone else who has been marking Rosh Hashanah this weekend.It wasn’t the letter I was planning to write this week, but it’s the one I need to, and it also follows on unexpectedly usefully from last week’s.Last week, I wrote about some of the ways that <
Worky and Wheely #12: Managing Movement, Migraines and Meltdowns (opens the original)
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Hullo my lovely readersA content note for references to structural and systemic ableism and disableism, and also to chronic pain and sensory sensitivitiesThis wasn’t the letter I planned to write this week – that was to be about the conference I was attending over several days, at which I had the honour of co-convening one of the working groups, in my first year in the role alongside truly brilliant academic colleagues.As well as being at the conference, though, I got a migraine.Partly for some
Age and Cerebral Palsy, Actually and Academically (opens the original)
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Hullo my lovely readersContent note for reference to the effects of ageing with impairments, physiologically, neurologically, cognitively and psychologically – and for brief mention of death and bereavementThank you sincerely for your supportive and kind responses to last week’s letter, written in memory of my Aunty Di, with gratitude for the representation she offered me as a relative with CP.I wrote about what it meant to have her example as I was gro
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