Dr. Kirsty Liddiard
@KirstyLiddiard1
Sociologist and Senior Research Fellow researching disability, breath, and respiration. All views my own. She/her.
Thank you @ESRC for funding the doctoral #research that went into this: kirstyliddiard.wordpress.com
A really wonderful event - do come along!
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Congratulations @RachelCDailey🎉 Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism is out today! 👏👏 ‘Young people should be taught this book in schools. A much needed take on disability history and our power in protest.’ —@DrFrancesRyan ‘A vital,…
What a beautiful photo. Thank you so much to Hurst for taking a chance on this book when so many other publishers wouldnt
Congratulations @RachelCDailey🎉 Ramping Up Rights: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism is out today! 👏👏 ‘Young people should be taught this book in schools. A much needed take on disability history and our power in protest.’ —@DrFrancesRyan ‘A vital,…
The Observer has now deleted the post, but shame on them for publishing such racist trash in the first place. The editor and “artist” still haven’t apologised. So much for accountability. Pathetic.
Brownfacing a box of raisins and mocking my surname. Exactly what you’d expect from a right-wing hack who is the daughter of an aristocrat and ex-Tory MP.
#DisabilityDialogues Our own wonderful Ankita Mishra reflects on her ongoing research and practice on community collaboration across transnational contexts and building meaningful partnerships as sites of resistance. sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/our-wor…
i sometimes wonder if ‘journalists’ like Sarah are aware that they’re spreading lies for propaganda purposes, or if they genuinely lack the critical thinking and investigative skills that would actually make them a decent enough journalist to understand why this is a lie
One in five new cars in the uk are bought by Motability - with taxpayer’s money - so they can be distributed to people with ‘disabilities’ including constipation and food intolerances. No wonder this country is bankrupt. mol.im/a/14873017
Today, we launch #AccessToNowhere - a campaign led by disabled people demanding urgent reform to Access to Work. Sign our open letter forms.gle/G9B4ax2TY7xqMd… Write your MP - templates drive.google.com/drive/u/2/fold… #AccessToWork #AccessToWorkCollective
Note No.10 is starting its new narrative: “We can’t stop the two child limit ‘cos they made us u-turn on disability benefits.” Child poverty v disability poverty is not a contest. Labour is responsible for its choices and solutions - not disabled people. thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
Not just people over 70 - people with learning disabilities experienced this blanket DNACPR, regardless of their age.
The Inquiry has heard more disturbing evidence about a blanket 'do not resuscitate' policy for anybody over 70 in care homes. Letters were sent by GPs, "essentially telling people that they will be left to die". #CovidInquiry
Please vote against the ‘pathways to work’ paper next week. Even with the concessions, 100,000s will be plunged into worse precarity and poverty. #WelfareNotWarfare
Here's the @Telegraph forced to correct their LIES on PIP and Motability. To celebrate, I'm off to do donuts in my Motability Maclaren Formula One car. #TakingThePIP
SEVERE CONDITION CRITERIA The Green Paper is diminished, but please lobby against the ‘severe condition criteria’—a hugely dangerous and discriminatory change to UC health rules that would drastically increase new claimants’ financial and psychological precarity. #TakingThePIP
So much misinformation being spread about Motability cars stirring up more hatred of disabled people. Where have people got this idea from that you get a 'free' car for mild anxiety. Just not true. They're not free and qualifying for mobility element is very strict.
The £83.30 per week Carer’s Allowance isn’t a wage. It’s a token. It works out to £3.56 per hour for 35 hours — and many carers give 60–100 hours a week. That’s 24/7 responsibility with no sick pay, no annual leave, no pension, and no job security 🧵
Labour MP thinks DWP PIP 'rewards disabled people for not working' One Northamptonshire Labour MP said that DWP PIP is “leaving people unable to work, and it rewards people for... not working”. No, really #TakingThePIP thecanary.co/uk/news/2025/0…
another day living with the hatred of disabled people that the media and successive governments have deliberately stoked for 15 years
A British news channel has said it has nothing to apologise for after a right-wing commentator and comedian suggested the best way to cut the number of disabled people claiming benefits was to starve, or even shoot, them. disabilitynewsservice.com/gb-news-says-i…
We all need to get around, but in the UK many disabled people like us are blocked from travelling because of large gaps and steps between the train and the platform. Level boarding solves that issue, so stations are more accessible to everyone - accessibility should be standard.
To claim PIP you have to have been disabled for over 6 months, fill in a huge form, supply medical evidence, go through an assessment that lasts a couple of hours, wait for months, usually appeal, often have to go to tribunal... And then usually go through it again every 2 years.