10 questions for Disability History Month
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As citizens vote in the Presidential election in the USA, an anthology of poems opposing Donald Trump is published in the UK – and it includes Janine Booth’s poem, ‘Hallelujah President Trump’.
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Sorry choices, hard selections
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Middle-aged Kicks: download fundraiser for Women’s Aid
Janine Booth parodies the The Undertones’ classic Teenage Kicks (with permission) as Middle-aged Kicks: “I’m getting older, getting older, right – Get middle-aged kicks then an early night”.
Musical accompaniment by Robb Johnson and Ali Gavan. Recorded at Brighton Road Studios, Hassocks. Cover art by J. Roberts.
All proceeds to Women’s Aid to help their work in helping women and children escaping domestic abuse.