Mad Kin zine launch
Janine will be performing poetry to help launch Mad Kin zine. Expect to hear Not OK and other poems about mental health. A word from the organisers … Mad Kin zine launch Join us to celebrate the launch of Mad Kin zine … Read more
Marxist. Trade Unionist. Socialist-feminist. Author. Poet. Speaker. Tutor. RMT ex-Exec. Workers' Liberty. Autie. Bi. PUFC fan.
Poems and pondering on all matters health, and on fighting to defend our NHS.
Janine will be performing poetry to help launch Mad Kin zine. Expect to hear Not OK and other poems about mental health. A word from the organisers … Mad Kin zine launch Join us to celebrate the launch of Mad Kin zine … Read more
Poetry from Janine features in the latest Soteria in the Pub. A Sunday afternoon of music, spoken word, information and pleasant company in support of more humane, non-coercive mental health services. A work from the organisers … Soteria in the … Read more
Join us online for the launch of the new issue of radical mental health magazine Asylum. Launching the new Asylum The online launch of the Winter 2024 issue (volume 31, number 4) of Asylum will feature: contributors speaking about their … Read more
Janine will be a poetic participant in this online event challenging mainstream narratives about mental health and ‘disorder’. This will include a showing of the video of Janine’s poem Not OK. Information and tickets for the event are available on … Read more
What Doctor Kendall ordered (as Labour’s Work & Pensions Secretary plans to send Work Coaches to visit mental health in-patients) You think you need some space to breathesome peaceful time awayBut no! You need some handy hintsto spruce your resumé … Read more
Soteria in the Pub Janine will be poeting in the pub (The Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon, London), in the latest in a series of Sunday afternoon events in support of the Soteria Network, campaigners for humane, non-coercive mental health services. … Read more
Menopause at work hit the headlines on 22 February as the Equality and Human Rights Commission issued new guidance on the issue. However, the guidance only affirmed what the law has been for the last fourteen years, and the fact that news coverage trumpeted it as a breakthrough can only mean that employers have not been following the law.
Basic problem: dysfunctional brain. Poisonous dynamic. Bad person. Difficult. Branded, pigeonholed, dubbed bonkers, psycho, disturbed. Best put down ‘borderline’. Please don’t bother protesting, dear. Boffin professionals drafted brilliant Ph Ds berating personal downfall Browbeaten patients drop by pharmacy, drugs bring … Read more
Join us for Soteria in the Pub, our open mic event to raise awareness for compassionate alternatives in mental health, at The Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon (London EC1R 3BL). Soteria Network is an international movement of service users, survivors, activists, carers and professionals fighting for more humane, … Read more
Language Studies student Fiona Wilson wrote this analysis of Janine’s poem ‘p.p.e.’ for her degree, scoring a distinction. Introduction This final piece of work, the EMA in fulfilment of the module, asks we students to consider the question “What … Read more
Who knew that new need not actually mean new? It might mean refurbished or extended, repurposed or pretended? Who knew? Who’d have thought it, that forty need not actually mean forty? That’s rather naughty It ought to, surely? I’d have … Read more