When looking through my bookshelves recently, I realised that I had read very few books about people with disabilities, and even less about people with chronic illnesses. I grew up reading books like What Katy Did, and The Secret Garden, where chronic illness is usually treated euphemistically or else there is a miracle cure –… More Chronic illness book recommendations
Today’s post is a guest post from blogger Pippa Stacey. She has written an incredibly useful guide to university for chronically ill people – something I wish I had read whilst I was studying. Unfortunately due to Corona a lot of Pippa’s book launch had to be cancelled. So lets try and make this book… More Pursuing Education, University and Employment with a Chronic Illness
In light of the ongoing anti-racist protests around the world, I wanted to take the chance to share some recommendations of books written by Black authors that centre around a Black experience of the world. In literature, as with other aspects of culture, we too often read and see books that centre around white experience of the… More Five books by Black authors