Reposted by Cate BaileyThe BMJ @bmj.com · 08/09/2025The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” www.bmj.com/content/390/... 7270117
Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025What does it mean to invoke the right to health without accounting for conditions of sustained persistent, overwhelming and abiding terror and violence? - Dr Danya Qato Vital episode exposing settler colonialism as fundamental cause of ill health and debility. Not another 'social determinant'. 093
Reposted by Cate BaileyWarwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 13/08/2025If you're in Berlin on August 29, come along to the launch (again) of Medicine on a Larger Scale (open access CUP 2025)! #histmed #histstm #sts 33412
Reposted by Cate BaileyBeatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 21/08/2025Capitalism disables people constantly—through war, prisons, workplace injury, pollution, denial of care—then blames disabled people for being “unproductive.” It creates the conditions for debility, then moralizes about dependency. It’s how the system protects its own value logic. 2205
Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 22/08/2025"From the moment you are born, the great machine begins to notch its teeth into you, measuring the span of your usefulness against the curve of your eventual collapse." @reallandsend.bsky.social what an opening to a 🔥 essay on disability as a political relation produced by capitalism. 052
Reposted by Cate BaileyMedact @medact.bsky.social · 23/06/2025The BMA said NO to Palantir today! 14518
Reposted by Cate BaileyPalestine Solidarity Campaign @pscupdates.bsky.social · 09/06/2025🚨URGENT: write to your MP - help release the Madleen crew now! Israel has unlawfully hijacked the Madleen, a @GazaFFlotilla boat flying a British flag, and detained the 12 civilians on board. Demand your MP take action to get the crew released now: palestinecampaign.eaction.online/Madleen/ 16753
Reposted by Cate BaileyRecovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025www.trussell.org.uk/news-and-res...trussell.org.ukNearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced into severe hardship if UK government goes ahead with cuts to social security | TrussellHundreds of thousands of people will be pushed into severe hardship if government goes ahead with ‘cruel’ cuts to disability payments. 022
Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 09/06/2025The Mental Health & Social Justice Network are organising a meeting with service users and workers involved in Trieste’s Mental Health ecology in London this Saturday 14/6/25. All welcome to come and discuss the radical, liberatory possibilities. Free registration: lu.ma/uoecy4jz?loc... 122
Reposted by Cate BaileyDr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 01/06/2025People talk about “benefits culture” like it’s some scam. You know what the real scandal is? That you have to fight, cry, collapse and prove you’re disabled again and again just to survive. Labour were supposed to be better, not worse. #TakingThePIP 511337
Reposted by Cate BaileyMedact @medact.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising 💥📣 🗓️ Sunday 29th June, 10:30am - 5pm 📍 The Advocacy Academy, London Join us for a day of conversation and workshops, as we build a community able to resist the racist Prevent duty ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/abolishing...eventbrite.co.ukAbolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and OrganisingJoin us for a day of action and workshops to resist Prevent. Co-hosted by Amnesty, Liberty, Maslaha, MedAct, No More Exclusions and RSI. 11010
Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 23/05/2025“The first step is to strip away the concept of heroism, perfectionism and rescue. Solidarity is a relationship of error, of small steps, of building for the future.” Brilliant ep @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social @autumnmeghanbrown.bsky.social Sarah Schulman endoftheworldshow.org/episodes/the... 043
Reposted by Cate BaileyDisability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 22/05/2025More than 50 disabled people’s organisations have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new #Labour government. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/equality-wat...disabilitynewsservice.comEquality watchdog must investigate ‘urgent threat’ posed by Labour policies, say DPOsMore than 50 disabled people’s organisations (DPOs) have called on the equality watchdog to investigate the “urgent threat” to the equality and human rights of disabled people posed by the new Labo… 23518
Reposted by Cate BaileyDisability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Yesterday, over 100 Disabled people joined the mass lobby of MPs to resist benefit cuts - the largest lobby of Disabled people Parliament has seen in over a decade. Read more👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/over-10...disabilityrightsuk.orgOver 100 Disabled People's Mass Lobby of MPs to Resist Benefit Cuts 14522
Reposted by Cate BaileyTurn2us @turn2us.org.uk · 14/05/2025The DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper proposes cuts to disability benefits we believe would be devastating. One of the organisations we work with, @gmcdp.bsky.social, has created a petition, calling on the Government to drop these proposals. Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...petition.parliament.ukPetition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability StrategyThe DWP Green Paper Pathways to Work proposes what we think are devastating cuts to disability benefits. We think the Government must drop these proposals and instead begin a process of co-production ... 11310
Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 22/05/2025"Most people will be disabled at some point in their life. Welfare is one way of recognising everyone has needs, that all of us live interdependently rather than independently." Alice Hattrick's brilliant essay on ableism, art and the latest attacks on disabled people. artreview.com/disability-i...artreview.comDisability Is Not a Separate Category of PersonhoodThe disabled experience is increasingly visible in the artworld yet an ableist political landscape is constantly on the attack. This affects us all 16222
Reposted by Cate BaileyBDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally! BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians. Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzoloom.lyElbit Systems: war criminals and genocidaires face financial woes“An unfortunate tendency to crash” 215277
Reposted by Cate BaileyRecovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025“resile”….. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukI will not resile from difficult welfare decisions, says KendallThe work and pensions secretary says welfare changes are 021
Reposted by Cate BaileyCampaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Disabled people and their organisations MUST be fully involved in reviews of: WCA, PIP assessment process, Safeguarding, employer & employee support & Access to Work. Sign our open letter now: buff.ly/TJI8pM6 #ItsTimeForInclusion 154
Reposted by Cate BaileyOwen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain. 16335135
Reposted by Cate BaileyBloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 19/05/2025'I think this is one of the main remits here – a dialogue between the speaker and the listener, the reader and the writer, the disabled and the non-disabled.’ – Richard Downes, @disabilityarts.bsky.social, on @rachaelboast.bsky.social's anthology Versus Versus. disabilityarts.online/magazine/rev...disabilityarts.onlineVersus Versus: anthology of 100 disabled poets that demands to be heard - Disability Arts OnlineRichard Downes reviews Versus Versus an anthology of 100 poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent poets, edited by writer, editor and disability advocate Rachael Boast. 044
Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025This was (as always) a fantastic and timely episode. Made me think deeply about the injustices of labour in healthcare and the artificial and unhelpful capital-driven divide between those who give and receive care. Highly recommended for anyone interested in health justice. 041
Reposted by Cate BaileyThe Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025It was Youth Demand who tried to disrupt genocidal Israel's Eurovision performance Youth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...thecanary.coIt was Youth Demand who tried to disrupt genocidal Israel's Eurovision performanceYouth Demand supporters took action as Israel took to the stage at Eurovision - all as it continues to bomb Gaza 1328
Reposted by Cate BaileyPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 17/05/2025🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control Must read from Foxglove's Rosa Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...democracyforsale.substack.comStarmer’s Big Tech lobbying problemPalantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control, writes Foxglove's Rosa Curling. 19482299
Reposted by Cate BaileyMichel Forst @michelforst.bsky.social · 04/04/2025To say the least, I am extremely concerned by the treatment of Dr. Hart. These concerns include: 1. The 12 months immediate prison sentence he received, for participating in peaceful environmental protest 23516
Reposted by Cate BaileyJust Treatment @justtreatment.org · 26/03/2025🚨 #SpringStatement 2025: Austerity 2.0 unleashed - our NHS & health will suffer 🚨 Today’s budget confirms the government is making a dangerous political & economic miscalculation. Rather than taxing the super-rich, they’re targeting society’s most vulnerable. A thread 🧵… 32337