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catherine c breen

@cathycbreen.bsky.social

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catherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

@phm.org.uk @gmcdp.bsky.social Great badgemaking session today.

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catherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

23 May, two days since mass lobby of UK Parliament on 21 May. Recovering at home in Manchester. Read ALT text of the images below for more. Have a good Bank Holiday all @jeffsmithmp.bsky.social @well-adapt.bsky.social @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @gmcdp.bsky.social

Parliament on 21 May 2025. Three residents of Manchester Withington constituency meet Jeff Smith MP, in Westminster Hall during a Mass Lobby of MPs.

Despite late trains and cancelled ones, London traffic, crowds, queues, the usual misunderstandings and many reschescheduling communications, we made it!

I spoke with tears at times; passionate and heartfelt. Grateful to Jeff for listening attentively and respectfully in the noisy and busy Westminster Hall. Hopefully, this trip has made sense.

According to one Manchester-based group of disabled leaders, reforms to welfare in the green paper will harm the UK Social Security system, the welfare state, and our economy, nationally, locally and personally.

To prevent this, we ask the UK Government to work with disabled people, instead of making decisions about us, without us.

Parliament does not yet have the full picture. Vital information is missing. Incorrect, and misleading judgements are harmful.

Photo taken in UK Parliament, Westminster Hall. From left to right: Jeff Smith MP; Cathy Breen; Kyda Grabham; Helen Clark.

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catherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

UK Parliament TOMORROW Deaf and disabled people will meet MPs at a mass lobby in Westminster Hall from 1pm to 4pm. All UK residents can ask MPs to vote against cuts to social security. @well-adapt.bsky.social @crips-against-cuts.bsky.social @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social

A circular orange sticker, including text that states, '21st May 2025' MASS LOBBY' with a yellow banner, including text that states, 'Disability Solidarity'.

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catherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

what's it all about?

An abstract colourful drawing made up of swirling marks using oil wax and water soluble crayons layered on top of gouache paint splodges left over from a time when the page was used as a palette to hold and mix paint that had been squirted out of tubes. Layered on top of the paint and the crayon layers are thick black lines made with a marker pen forming shapes such as two hollow circles with several lines sticking out at 90-degree angles from their outer edge in different directions. Outlines of triangles of different sizes, also marquise, navette or little boat shaped outlines. One triangle near the centre of the drawing has a line leading away from one side. The line is broken but works with the triangle to create an arrow. Black lines also form outlines around places where there is little or no other colour layered on top of the original paper which is pale blue card. This card forms the background or bottom layer. There is lots of movement and disorder with bits of stillness and clarity.

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catherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

During weekly drop-in with @gmcdp.bsky.social peers on 1st April, this is what arose and helped me to focus. More responsive than contrived. Practicing documenting moments in meaningful ways...

An open sketchbook in front of an open but off laptop on a desk. Sunlight makes gentle bands of light and shadow diagonally across the pages from top left to bottom right.

The scale of the drawing is 2 times A4. The angle of perspective creates a dramatic effect. The drawing centres around a horizontal strip of plastic tape stuck halfway down both pages.

The tape reads RAGILE FRAGILE in large red capital letters from left edge to right edge. The vertical height of the tape appears to be a sixth of the whole page. Some letters in RAGILE FRAGILE are blurred using a red biro pen to scribble over and around. The unclear letters are R F I and L. The letters remaining clear read AGILE RAGE.

Using a thick black marker pen, a line creates one box around AGILE following the top and bottom edges of the tape. The same black line makes a 2nd box around RAG and a third box around E. These boxes also follow the top and bottom of the tape. To make the vertical sides of the boxes the black line has to cross the tape 6 times.

Royal blue wax crayon has been used in a haphazard way in the space below the tape. To fill the lower half of both pages the crayon has been used on it's side in wide swirling motions creating marks with less definition than would be made by the tip of the crayon. The white of the paper is visible unevenly below the blue according to variable pressure applied. Below the word AGILE and RAG blue crayon has caught the tape slightly in a wave like motion.

Above the tape in the top half of both pages using a range of different coloured crayons on a background of ochre crayon, there is a row of flame like or pine tree shaped forms. The dominant colour filling these forms is bright yellow applied thickly concealing the paper below. Each yellow form corresponds to one of the clear red letters. Each letter is connected to a yellow form by a roughly drawn wick or stem made of a mixture of brown and green crayons used side on and with some definition.

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catherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Global Disability Summit today in Berlin. The following graphic recording by buffie nguyen @buffienguyen.bsky.social is brilliant. Here is my attempt to describe this great illustration in ALT text. Please comment on how it works for you. Thank you. Here it is:

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catherine c breen @cathycbreen.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

@instituteforgov.bsky.social Keynote Speech happened today. @andyburnham.bsky.social speaking about Greater Manchester. I posted a question. Here is an image with ALT text...

Laptop screen showing livestream of keynote speech from Institute for Government alongside questions posted via online form (slido) including: question identified as 'Anonymous' from me. This question reads: what steps will be taken, including timescale, to ensure welfare reform doesn't further injure any disabled or ill residents of GM and those who live and work alongside them who will also be impacted by any changes?

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