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Cate Bailey

@drcatebailey.bsky.social
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They/them, sometimes psychiatrist in East London, researcher, reader, Medact member, interested in FND, abolition, epistemic, health and disability justice 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉

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The BMJ @bmj.com · 08/09/2025
The 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/...
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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
What 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'.
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If 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
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Capitalism 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.
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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.
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Medact @medact.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Medact @medact.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Medact @medact.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
The BMA said NO to Palantir today!
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Palestine 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/
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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Nearly half a million people in disabled households will be forced into severe hardship if UK government goes ahead with cuts to social security | Trussell
Hundreds of thousands of people will be pushed into severe hardship if government goes ahead with ‘cruel’ cuts to disability payments.
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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The 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...
Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Includes asking delegates to bring a small object, image or text reflecting your experience of mental health and/or care.Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Details of who will be visiting and the discussions around the radical mental health ecology of Trieste. Event open to all service users, survivors, professionals, practitioners and anyone involved in mental health. With free vegan, gluten free lunch.Image from Mental Health and Social Justice Network's Instagram with the details of the event 11am - 5pm at Birkbeck, London. Image of the Trieste yellow building.
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Dr Jay Watts @shrinkatlarge.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
People 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
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Medact @medact.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Abolishing 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...
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Abolishing Prevent: A Community Day of Action and Organising
Join us for a day of action and workshops to resist Prevent. Co-hosted by Amnesty, Liberty, Maslaha, MedAct, No More Exclusions and RSI.
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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...
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
More 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...
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Equality watchdog must investigate ‘urgent threat’ posed by Labour policies, say DPOs
More 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…
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Disability 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...
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Over 100 Disabled People's Mass Lobby of MPs to Resist Benefit Cuts
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Turn2us @turn2us.org.uk · 14/05/2025
The 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...
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Petition: Abandon DWP Pathways to Work Green Paper & create National Disability Strategy
The 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 ...
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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...
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Disability Is Not a Separate Category of Personhood
The disabled experience is increasingly visible in the artworld yet an ableist political landscape is constantly on the attack. This affects us all
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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Elbit 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/kzeePzo
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Elbit Systems: war criminals and genocidaires face financial woes
“An unfortunate tendency to crash”
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Recovery in the Bin @ritb.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
“resile”….. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I will not resile from difficult welfare decisions, says Kendall
The work and pensions secretary says welfare changes are
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Campaign for Disability Justice @campaignfdj.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Disabled 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
Open letter (text also available at the link)Open letter part 2
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Always remember: this is a crime being committed by Israel, a Western ally armed and backed throughout by the United States and Britain.
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Bloodaxe 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...
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Versus Versus: anthology of 100 disabled poets that demands to be heard - Disability Arts Online
Richard Downes reviews Versus Versus an anthology of 100 poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent poets, edited by writer, editor and disability advocate Rachael Boast.
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Cate Bailey @drcatebailey.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This 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.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
It 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...
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It 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
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Peter 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...
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Starmer’s Big Tech lobbying problem
Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control, writes Foxglove's Rosa Curling.
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Michel Forst @michelforst.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
To 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
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Just 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 🧵…
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