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Last year I wrote extensively about the sudden cut to my Access to Work support that meant I had to stop doing the job I love for three months. While my support was eventually reinstated, many other w...

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After two brilliant years with the company, our Senior Producer Nisha is moving on to pursue some new ventures of her own. We’ve loved working with her on all sorts of different projects including Val...

When I joined the Touretteshero team in January 2025 as the Knowledge for Change Manager, I couldn’t wait to get stuck into planning for Knowledge for Change (aka KFC!) This radical research programme...

After two brilliant years with the company, our Senior Producer Nisha is moving on to pursue some new ventures of her own. We’ve loved working with her on all sorts of different projects including Val...

Tourette’s activist Jess Thom on the furore around the film I Swear and why the condition she lives with is so misunderstood

I was diagnosed with Tourettes when I was 25 and one of the first things my friends encouraged me to do was meet other people who had it too. I was a bit nervous to start with, but it was one of the b...

After two brilliant years with the company, our Senior Producer Nisha is moving on to pursue some new ventures of her own. We’ve loved working with her on all sorts of different projects including Val...

Touretteshero London group is for children and young people, aged 6 – 16, who have lived-experience of involuntary noise and movement, including tics, Tourettes, and associated conditions - no diagnos...

I was diagnosed with Tourettes when I was 25 and one of the first things my friends encouraged me to do was meet other people who had it too. I was a bit nervous to start with, but it was one of the b...

Touretteshero London group is for children and young people, aged 6 – 16, who have lived-experience of involuntary noise and movement, including tics, Tourettes, and associated conditions - no diagnos...

I’ve just got back from a lovely holiday in Cornwall with my family. Where ever I go, my tics go with me, and for the last few months that’s included one about bovine intimacy, “I fucked a cow in a ho...

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Fear not friends, this isn’t an elaborate April Fools hoax, it’s actually our brand new website! We’ve been working on it for the last couple of years - building a site is a long process – but we’re r...

This time next week we’re going to be hosting a Knowledge Exchange event at Graeae in East London (and online). It will start at 10.00am and finish at 1.00pm. Big changes are coming to Access to Wo...

I’m currently going through the process of renewing my Access to Work support. This is particularly daunting because last year’s renewal went very badly and the vital support I need to do my job was c...

I want to start this post with a significant caveat – attempting to talk about complex, emotive and highly charged issues within the constraints of the frenzied news cycle is difficult and unpredictab...

This is a post I need to write but you might not need to read – I’m going to discuss some of the complicated, distressing parts of having Tourettes, and if reading it feels too much at any point pleas...

I’ve spent the last few days gathering evidence for the Public Accounts Committee inquiry into Access to Work. It’s becoming increasingly clear that huge, devastating changes are planned by the Govern...

Content Warning: Description of death I don’t know exactly where to start with this, so I’m going to get the devastating news out the way first. Then I can focus all my attention on paying tribute t...

Can you believe it’s been nearly three years since we launched our brilliant Zine, The Department for Wonder and Play? Now that we’ve got two volumes and two launch events under our collective belt, i...

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Supporting disabled-led thinking has been an important part of Touretteshero from the beginning, and over the last few years our research programmes have grown under the care of our Director of Resear...

Often when I write these posts I’m doing it with a wide audience in mind, but this one is slightly different. While everyone’s welcome to read it, it’s particularly aimed at funding bodies, grant admi...

Join Touretteshero for Return of the Rebels – a day of rebellious and inclusive fun for all ages. Expect multi-sensory play, creativity and connection, inviting you to explore what rebellious, inclusi...

In this episode of Disability and... choreographer and artistic director of Cathy Waller Company, Cathy Waller chats with writer, artist and activist Jess Thom about her recent experience of claiming ...

A surreal and comic musical finale featuring a choir, a brass band and dancing biscuits.

Yesterday was BBC Children in Need day. Schools and workplaces held collections in the lead up to an evening extravaganza of celebrity-led TV fundraising. The money raised will fund life-changing work...

For anyone old enough to remember, in 2011 Rihanna found love in a hopeless place. That place, if the video is anything to go by, turned out to be County Down in Northern Ireland. The song, with its c...

If living with Tourettes has taught me one thing it’s that brains are incredibly complex and that medical understandings of neurological conditions and the reality of living with them can often feel q...

Last year we launched the Touretteshero Welcome Pack, a set of artist designed letters that we provide free to children who are newly diagnosed with tics or Tourettes, and their families. The welcome ...

It’s been four years since we launched our Practical Intervention Fund (PIF). The fund enables disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people to experiment with different items which can support their wellb...

A couple of weeks ago some colleagues and I gathered round a phone in the Touretteshero office to speak to my newly allocated caseworker from the Department for Work and Pensions about my Access to Wo...

Without equitable access to life enhancing benefits, disabled people's participation in culture is severely limited, writes the UK's arts access champion Andrew Miller.

Shortly before my emergency pacemaker operation at the end of March, I had a meeting with a couple of my colleagues to talk about what should happen to our company if I didn’t survive the procedure. T...

Content Notice: References to genocide and Euthanasia In 2016 much to my surprise and delight I became a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow. This Fellowship from an internationally recognised health re...

A transport minister has told peers that it would be “counter-productive” – and take too long – to draw up rules that would ensure all pilot schemes of self-driving taxis are accessible to disabled…

Is it just me or is it feeling a lot like the 1930s all of a sudden? I’m giving myself permission to ask big questions like this in part because I’m not working at the moment. The reason why I’m not d...