Opinion: Neurodiversity Doesn’t Make Me Miserable – Society Does
by Charlie Hertzog Young
I’ve often blamed myself for my poor mental health, writes Charlie Hertzog Young. The concept of neurodiversity showed me it’s society that’s at fault.
Tag: ptsd
Downstream: Veterans: Rightwing or Radical?
They are claimed from all sides and by all parties. But who are Britain’s ex-service personnel? What do they want? And what do their politics – whether conservative, liberal or socialist – tell us about Britain as a post-imperial country? Aaron Bastani speaks to Joe Glenton, journalist and author of ‘Veteranhood’.
Opinion: My Son Osime Brown Will Die If He is Deported – But the Racist State Isn’t Listening
by Joan Martin
Osime Brown has lived in the UK since he was four. He has autism, PTSD and a heart condition, yet the British government wants to deport him to Jamaica, where there is nobody to support him - all for a minor crime witnesses say he did not even commit. His mother, Joan Martin, spoke to Novara Media about why he must be allowed to stay.
The Lockdown: Profits and the Prison Industry
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann discuss the Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC) and proposed prison expansion.
The Lockdown: Policing by Consent?
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Koshka Duff, a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. In 2013, she was arrested and strip searched after offering a legal advice card to a teenager being stopped and searched in Hackney.