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}, { "id": "01a0c547-0663-7133-af66-0e0652598994", "title": "On ‘Real’ and ‘Fake’ Disability", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/on-real-and-fake-disability/", "published_at": "2018-01-07T12:28:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c547-0663-7133-af66-0e065260229a", "title": "Toby Young’s Dizzingly Unscientific Eugenics Argument", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/toby-youngs-dizzingly-unscientific-eugenics-argument/", "published_at": "2018-01-04T12:48:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c547-0663-7133-af66-0e06526c1be8", "title": "My Speech on the UNCRPD Judgement at the SNP Conference", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/10/10/my-speech-on-the-uncrpd-judgement-at-the-snp-conference/", "published_at": "2017-10-10T21:59:33+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c547-0663-7133-af66-0e06531a5d8f", "title": "The Thing Which Haunts Me", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/the-thing-which-haunts-me/", "published_at": "2017-10-06T21:52:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c547-0663-7133-af66-0e06533a0da2", "title": "Sarwar’s ‘Sacrifice’", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/sarwars-sacrifice/", "published_at": "2017-09-24T15:50:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c547-0663-7133-af66-0e06541e885c", "title": "What Might Have Been", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/09/19/what-might-have-been/", "published_at": "2017-09-19T10:58:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c547-0663-7133-af66-0e0654ec5b1a", "title": "The Line Between Glorifying Murder and Honouring A Death", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/the-line-between-glorifying-murder-and-honouring-a-death/", "published_at": "2017-08-13T13:14:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-548087771da2", "title": "A Short Note on the History of Punching Nazis in the UK: The Battle of Lewisham", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/08/13/a-short-note-on-the-history-of-punching-nazis-in-the-uk-the-battle-of-lewisham/", "published_at": "2017-08-13T13:12:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-548087d85ad5", "title": "Sagamihara: A Year Later, And Still Silence", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/07/26/sagamihara-a-year-later-and-still-silence/", "published_at": "2017-07-26T22:54:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-5480886a197c", "title": "Aberdeenshire Isn’t A Lost Cause – It Needs Us More Than Ever", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/aberdeenshire-isnt-a-lost-cause-it-needs-us-more-than-ever/", "published_at": "2017-07-04T21:39:30+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-548088c68071", "title": "Independence Day – Let Freedom Ring?", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/independence-day-let-freedom-ring/", "published_at": "2017-07-04T16:22:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-5480890f12af", "title": "SNP – Where Do We Go From Here?", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/snp-where-do-we-go-from-here/", "published_at": "2017-06-14T13:08:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-54808936d554", "title": "For Medical Professionals (Not for patients)", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/for-medical-professionals-not-for-patients/", "published_at": "2017-06-08T10:59:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-548089e599da", "title": "To People Feeling Hopeless, Their Friends and Family, and Medical Professionals", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/to-people-feeling-hopeless-their-friends-and-family-and-medical-professionals/", "published_at": "2017-06-08T09:11:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-54808a74203e", "title": "The Disability Democide: The Masterlist of Citations", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-disability-democide-the-masterlist-of-citations/", "published_at": "2017-06-06T18:20:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-54808a779360", "title": "In Defence of Claire Heuchan’s Article – from a Scottish Nationalist", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/02/28/in-defence-of-claire-heuchan-from-a-scottish-nationalist/", "published_at": "2017-02-28T00:43:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c54f-d12a-70c6-8d12-54808b5ad6ce", "title": "Meet The New Boss, Definitely Not The Same As The Old Boss", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2017/01/20/meet-the-new-boss-definitely-not-the-same-as-the-old-boss/", "published_at": "2017-01-20T01:31:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e328f3e1b5b", "title": "Hogmanay 2016", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/12/31/hogmanay-2016/", "published_at": "2016-12-31T19:11:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e328ff64478", "title": "A Secular Christmas Post", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/a-christmas-post-for-non-christians/", "published_at": "2016-12-25T11:38:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e3290922885", "title": "The Little Matchgirl Redux", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/the-little-matchgirl-redux/", "published_at": "2016-12-23T14:59:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e329143af77", "title": "Cradle 2 Grave: Society Needs You", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/10/08/cradle-2-grave-society-needs-you/", "published_at": "2016-10-08T00:24:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e3291644623", "title": "Another Year Gone", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/09/18/another-year-gone/", "published_at": "2016-09-18T23:41:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e32921a26fb", "title": "Culture Matters", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/09/03/culture-matters/", "published_at": "2016-09-03T20:33:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e3292f29e7d", "title": "Truth and Consequences", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/truth-and-consequences/", "published_at": "2016-07-06T22:29:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e3293a026bb", "title": "Empires and Consequences", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/07/06/empires-and-consequences/", "published_at": "2016-07-06T00:22:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e329443b733", "title": "The Coming Weeks", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/06/22/the-coming-weeks/", "published_at": "2016-06-22T23:59:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c558-16fe-7120-9ea2-8e3294854c43", "title": "Undecided Voters And People Not Planning On Voting At All: Please, Please Read This First", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/undecided-voters-and-people-not-planning-on-voting-at-all-please-please-read-this-first/", "published_at": "2016-06-21T18:37:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df745f6707", "title": "Nominations and Recriminations", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/nominations-and-recriminations/", "published_at": "2016-06-10T17:46:32+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df75315ffc", "title": "Renewal", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/05/31/renewal/", "published_at": "2016-05-31T23:19:42+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df75eadc7e", "title": "Even in Victory, Despair: SP16 Results", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2016/05/08/even-in-victory-despair-sp16-results/", "published_at": "2016-05-08T07:56:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df75f1c09a", "title": "Do You Know About Action T4? The Erasure Of Disabled People From The Holocaust Narrative, And Why It Matters Today", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/do-you-know-about-action-t4-the-erasure-of-disabled-people-from-the-holocaust-narrative-and-why-it-matters-today/", "published_at": "2015-10-26T09:26:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df76320921", "title": "EVEL: The Clue Is In The Name", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2015/10/22/evel-the-clue-is-in-the-name/", "published_at": "2015-10-22T23:57:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df76efc254", "title": "I’m In The Paper! (some clarifications)", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2015/10/19/im-in-the-paper-some-clarifications/", "published_at": "2015-10-19T16:35:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df77c8c622", "title": "Memories of Last Summer", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/memories-of-last-summer/", "published_at": "2015-09-17T07:39:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df781451b4", "title": "Iain Duncan Smith Targeting People Too Sick To Work", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2015/08/24/iain-duncan-smith-targeting-people-too-sick-to-work/", "published_at": "2015-08-24T00:37:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df78876594", "title": "Jeremy Corbyn and His Support in Scotland", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2015/08/04/jeremy-corbyn-and-his-support-in-scotland/", "published_at": "2015-08-04T17:30:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0c560-c0a8-7367-8746-33df79509999", "title": "A Depressingly Predictable Howl Of Protest", "url": "https://graniteandsunlight.wordpress.com/2015/07/08/depressingly-predictable-howls-of-protest/", "published_at": "2015-07-08T01:03:39+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2026

The World That Ended On 9/11original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Why Young Women Aren’t Ashamed Of Disability Anymoreoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2026
The Real Systemic Outrage In The Henry Nowak Caseoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
Why I Oppose The Assisted Dying Billoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2026

2025

How ‘Driving Home For Christmas’ Rewired My Brainoriginal ↗
22 Dec 2025
Write To Your MP About Disability Cuts NOWoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2025
Austerity Was Never Supposed To Be Permanentoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2025
Labour’s Proposed Disability Cuts Will Kill People – We Need You To Help Us Fightoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2025

2024

The Hope Of Independence – Ten Years Onoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2024

2023

The War Poetsoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2023
What Disabled People Are Losing With The Slow Death Of Twitteroriginal ↗
2 Jul 2023
The Times Is Lying About Gillick Competenceoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2023
No, Schools Are Not Disciplining Students For Not ‘Respecting’ Children ‘Identifying As Cats’original ↗
24 Jun 2023
Spying On Disabled People Is Good Says The Minister For Disabled Peopleoriginal ↗
21 Apr 2023
The Closeness Of The Voteoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2023

2022

Why I’m Not Going To SNP22original ↗
7 Oct 2022
Alt-texts for Become Unbutterable (The Jorts Zine)original ↗
19 May 2022
Sprite: The Strange Wee Soul We Adoredoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2022
Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)original ↗
15 Mar 2022
Propaganda: What To Look For, How To Deal With Itoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2022
What Is ‘Performative Decontextualisation’?original ↗
6 Mar 2022
What To Expect In The Last Months Of The GRA Campaign: Lessons From Prop 8original ↗
3 Mar 2022

2021

Jean And Jorts: the extended metaphor for workplace accommodations nobody asked fororiginal ↗
16 Dec 2021
Equalities Convener Final Report 2021original ↗
28 Nov 2021
Bad Art Friend’s Missed Opportunitiesoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2021
Kettle: A Poemoriginal ↗
23 Mar 2021
Protected: Announcement: Candidacy and Corruptionoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2021

2020

#SNP20 Speech on Disability and Infrastructureoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2020
#SNP20 Speech on Medical Ableism and Patient Safetyoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2020
Alt-textoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2020
Re-Elect Fiona Robertson As Equalities Convener!original ↗
29 Oct 2020
Unconscious Bias Training – Caveatsoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2020
The Country We Almost Hadoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2020
The Normal Things We Missoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2020
Covid19 And Post-Viral Disabilityoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2020
Community and Society – 5am Thoughts About #Covid19original ↗
13 Mar 2020

2019

Beyond Corbyn – The Challenge For The Global Leftoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2019
Voting Tory in #GE2019 Is A Vote To Kill People Like Me: GE2017 Reduxoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2019
Before You Comment On A Disabled Person’s Euthanasia…original ↗
23 Oct 2019
The North Is Noworiginal ↗
21 Oct 2019
Endorsements for Fiona Robertson for Equalities Convener!original ↗
11 Oct 2019
Why I’m Running For Equalities Conveneroriginal ↗
10 Oct 2019
Thanos Was Wrong, But He Was Also Familiaroriginal ↗
11 Aug 2019
The Moon Is A Long Way Awayoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2019
Arguing for Reproductive Rights Without Causing Unintentional Harmoriginal ↗
17 May 2019
No, I did not say I wanted to replace ‘women’ with ‘menstruators’original ↗
22 Apr 2019
The Myth of Mental Illness and Extreme Violenceoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2019
Abortion and Disability – Rights for Alloriginal ↗
23 Mar 2019
Robert Burns and Frederick Douglass – The Bard’s Legacyoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2019

2018

Weakness and Chaos in Westminsteroriginal ↗
16 Nov 2018
Congratulations to the TIE Campaign!original ↗
9 Nov 2018
Holding Ourselves to Our Own Standardsoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2018
Endorsements for Fiona Robertson for W&Eoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2018
A Brief Intro to Disabilityoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2018
We’re So Tired.original ↗
28 Sept 2018
Straws, again. (PG version)original ↗
25 Sept 2018
Fiona Robertson for SNP National Women’s and Equalities Conveneroriginal ↗
21 Sept 2018
Straws. Again. (The PG version)original ↗
6 Aug 2018
Straws: so what do we do about them?original ↗
8 Jul 2018
Straws. Again.original ↗
5 Jul 2018
The Disabled Students’ Allowance and the Open University – My Experienceoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2018
Beyond The Defaultoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2018
Notes From The Disability Frontline (Or: Stuff I Wish I Had Known Before Becoming Disabled)original ↗
7 Jan 2018
On ‘Real’ and ‘Fake’ Disabilityoriginal ↗
7 Jan 2018
Toby Young’s Dizzingly Unscientific Eugenics Argumentoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2018

2017

My Speech on the UNCRPD Judgement at the SNP Conferenceoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2017
The Thing Which Haunts Meoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2017
Sarwar’s ‘Sacrifice’original ↗
24 Sept 2017
What Might Have Beenoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2017
The Line Between Glorifying Murder and Honouring A Deathoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2017
A Short Note on the History of Punching Nazis in the UK: The Battle of Lewishamoriginal ↗
13 Aug 2017
Sagamihara: A Year Later, And Still Silenceoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2017
Aberdeenshire Isn’t A Lost Cause – It Needs Us More Than Everoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2017
Independence Day – Let Freedom Ring?original ↗
4 Jul 2017
SNP – Where Do We Go From Here?original ↗
14 Jun 2017
For Medical Professionals (Not for patients)original ↗
8 Jun 2017
To People Feeling Hopeless, Their Friends and Family, and Medical Professionalsoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2017
The Disability Democide: The Masterlist of Citationsoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2017
In Defence of Claire Heuchan’s Article – from a Scottish Nationalistoriginal ↗
28 Feb 2017
Meet The New Boss, Definitely Not The Same As The Old Bossoriginal ↗
20 Jan 2017

2016

Hogmanay 2016original ↗
31 Dec 2016
A Secular Christmas Postoriginal ↗
25 Dec 2016
The Little Matchgirl Reduxoriginal ↗
23 Dec 2016
Cradle 2 Grave: Society Needs Youoriginal ↗
8 Oct 2016
Another Year Goneoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2016
Culture Mattersoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2016
Truth and Consequencesoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2016
Empires and Consequencesoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2016
The Coming Weeksoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2016
Undecided Voters And People Not Planning On Voting At All: Please, Please Read This Firstoriginal ↗
21 Jun 2016
Nominations and Recriminationsoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2016
Renewaloriginal ↗
31 May 2016
Even in Victory, Despair: SP16 Resultsoriginal ↗
8 May 2016

2015

Do You Know About Action T4? The Erasure Of Disabled People From The Holocaust Narrative, And Why It Matters Todayoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2015
EVEL: The Clue Is In The Nameoriginal ↗
22 Oct 2015
I’m In The Paper! (some clarifications)original ↗
19 Oct 2015
Memories of Last Summeroriginal ↗
17 Sept 2015
Iain Duncan Smith Targeting People Too Sick To Workoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2015
Jeremy Corbyn and His Support in Scotlandoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2015
A Depressingly Predictable Howl Of Protestoriginal ↗
8 Jul 2015
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