something has recently come to my attention that i believe merits significant scrutiny. so much so that i’m coming back to my old blog from when i worked around homelessness to post what i know…
i spent some of the last twelve months trying to coproduce, and then polish, a resource on safeguarding for an organisation i used to work with. i ended up having to hand it back to…
i mentioned in the Culture Collective post that i was up in Glasgow for an event last year (From Participation to Co-creation, run by Arts Homeless International in partnership with Creative Scotland and the Calouste…
COVID has simultaneously proven beyond doubt that the rich will always get richer at the continued expense of our most poor, vulnerable and oppressed, and that the public’s appetite for a more ethical, moral, socially…
I wrote earlier about my breakdown/breakthrough leading to diagnoses of ‘the clusterfuck combo‘ of Autism and ADHD. I’m starting to share some of the adaptations I created through my past work in media arts, as…
I call Autism+ADHD “the clusterfuck combo”. My Autistic brain is all about truth, justice, order, logic, patterns, systems, and deep dives – my Autistic brain is curious, investigative, and wants to understand everything. My ADHD…
My work has always been everything to me, to the extent that it became unhealthy – my work was far more important to me than my own wellbeing. Working in the arts is a deliciously…
I frequently find that ‘traditional business’ training and support often miss a lot of nuance specific to arts business: some reflections…
i wrote this as a comment in response to someone (yes, someone who happened to be wrong on the internet) arguing that they didn’t see why their hard-earned taxes should become someone else’s “stay at…
Tories are holding a summit with major British Museums and Heritage Institutions this week to force a ‘retain and explain’ policy, with the threat of reduced funding (and worse) if they don’t comply [1]. This…