Marxist. Trade Unionist. Socialist-feminist. Author. Poet. Speaker. Tutor. RMT ex-Exec. Workers' Liberty. Autie. Bi. PUFC fan.
Disabled people campaigning for rights – for access, benefits, services and equality; against discrimination, cuts, prejudice and pity!
Janine Booth replies to John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone’s post, Neurodiversity – what exactly does it mean?, on Mad in the UK’s website. Throwing the neurodivergent baby out with the bathwater John Cromby and Lucy Johnstone have contributed an interesting … Read more
Labour’s general election manifesto offers little more than vague mentions to disabled people, and drops many of the party’s specific pledges.
Janine will be a keynote speaker at this year’s Neurodiversity in Rail conference. Here is some information from the organisers of the Neurodiversity in Rail conference, the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Excellence … About the Neurodiversity in Rail … Read more
GMB Midlands members are invited to a training course about neurodiversity at work.
Neurodiversity – a left-wing perspective On Monday 25 March, Janine spoke at an online open meeting hosted by Lewes Labour party members, setting out a left-wing perspective on neurodiversity. You can watch a video of the talk, and the ensuing … Read more
I am loud, I am chatty
I am exhausting, Impulsive and batty
Pride is this:
the counter-march to prejudice
There’s a reason it was named:
Pride is refusal to feel ashamed.
Janine will be speaking about neurodiversity at March’s ‘open meeting’ organised by Lewes Labour activists. ‘Different people have different brain wiring. Those with a minority brain wiring – such as dyslexic, autistic and dyspraxic people – face discrimination at work … Read more
A guest poem by Josey Robinson
Janine is the guest poet at this celebration of neurodivergent poetry. Food and drink available to buy. To book a slot, contact @QueerOutLoud
A panel of Janine, Robert Chapman and Sarah McCulloch discuss how Marxism can contribute to an understanding of neurodiversity and how we can achieve liberation. Part of Workers’ Liberty’s annual Ideas for Freedom festival.
Janine will speak about neurodiversity and deliver a couple of poems at this meeting of lefty health campaigners.
In 1825, Paris physician Jean Marc Gaspard Itard assessed a French noblewoman in her twenties who, from the age of seven, had ‘ticked and blasphemed‘. She was one of ten people with similar symptoms described in an article by Itard. … Read more
The law judges this on a case-by-case basis. The 2010 Equality Act states that an individual is disabled under the law if they have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial, long-term, adverse effect on their ability to … Read more
Janine will give a presentation to this online event hosted by Minnesota State University.
There is an excellent article in November 2022’s Labour Research – ‘Neurodiversity: a core bargaining issue’. I’m pleased to say that I am extensively quoted! If you would like to read the full text, ask your trade union if it … Read more
Janine has recently taken over as Poetry Editor of Asylum magazine. Asylum wants your poetry for our radical mental health magazine. Asylum has been running for nearly forty years, providing a platform for all perspectives on mental health. Asylum is influenced and … Read more
These are the opening speeches from this event, held on Zoom on Tuesday 22 March 2022. Sarah Woolley (General Secretary, Bakers’, Food and Allied Workers’ Union): Welcome to the joint RMT and Free Our Unions TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference fringe meeting. … Read more
Woolwich Common Youth Club, 144 Nightingale Place, Woolwich SE18 4HE Autistic speakers, poets and singers. Come and buy from the stalls with art, clothing, books and jewellery, all autistic made. 1.15pm Welcome opening by Emma Dalmayne 1.15 – 1.35pm – … Read more
How does capitalism disable people with impairments and differences? What alternative does socialism offer? Janine speaks alongside Richard Rieser (World of Inclusion) and Ellen Clifford (author and activist).