"It is something that the various authorities worry about a lot - “we mustn’t let people get reliant on free food.” ... it’s a political choice. It’s a failure of imagination, to imagine other people, other ways of living."

PLZ Retweet! Finally I can announce CripTales in the UK! BBC4, November 2nd, 3rd and 4th at 10pm. Then on IPlayer...

Feel like I'm in a fever dream watching these presenters on CNN

Euphoric. A full-on authoritarian project stopped dead in its tram-tracks in key states by the astonishing grassroots activism of working-class communities of colour. Of course there is so much work to be done but my God, this makes a better world more possible. Joy upon joy.

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Thinking about the Rear Window set.

I had a great time catching up with dancer + choreographer Chris Pavia earlier this week. You can catch Stopgap's ace dance film Artificial Things this Friday for free Southbank Centre #UnlimitedFest - and don't miss out on the rest of their brilliant line-up of disabled artists

Today is the day! Within Sight, a show about ableism, running & the Paralympics, will be going online from 6pm, but before then you can catch other fantastic performances such as Sonny Nwachukwu (jnr)'s Saturn Returns! Go check out the programme, and join us tonight. #UnlimitedFest

#LISTEN, a short film made by and with nonspeaking autistic people, was launched on Friday to coincide with the US launch of #SiaMusic. (Sia did NOT fulfil her offer to sponsor a short film.) To date, LISTEN has had more than 31,000 views on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?v=H7dca7…

This is a brilliant half hour of radio - the ace 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus asking other deaf poets and artists what sound is, and explores the possibilities of captions, of how we can capture sound and translate it for the eye. With subtitled video and transcript: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Hey folks...can you please share for submissions to the Deaf anthology for poetry and short fiction. Written a blog for the brilliant The Limping Chicken | Deaf Culture, News and Arts @sophieLstone @ArachnePress 🙏 limpingchicken.com/2021/03/23/lis…

I can't quite put into words how much I love this photo. This is a man who feels *exactly* how we do right now. Unbelievable. Love you @Philfoden.

"I've become more naturally expressive when I sign" BBC EastEnders actress @roseaylingellis finds out how a new generation are making British Sign Language their own. Watch in full 👉 bbc.in/3eoDQoF #DeafAwarenessWeek

Death, taxes, Pep's needless tinkering in the Champions League. He's never going to change, is he

The story about the Auslan sign 'Australia' is a fascinating case of language change in progress due to changing perceptions of a sign's etymology ('perceptions' because the explanation given here is not something we have any historical evidence for)

Vegetal tenants, Toxteth, Liverpool

For the The New Yorker, I wrote about Protactile—a way of communicating through touch, a political movement for DeafBlind autonomy, and (some argue) a new language in a new modality—that’s radically transforming the lives of DeafBlind people across the U.S. newyorker.com/culture/annals…

I could nor wail nor enquire Through utter drought all struck I stood! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A fire! a fire. manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/food-…

Watch @sophieLstone introduce Lawand to Visual Vernacular in this clip from Name Me Lawand. In cinemas from Friday! theb.fi/3XAHZdU

Ruins of Persepolis, Iran, circa 1923.