TULIKAAAAAA!!!!!!! Aside from being excited at seeing a fellow Twitterati on a Podcast - the content - addressing structural racism through activism whilst working inside the NHS is inspiring. I’m considering leaving #LXP activism behind as it’s left me so harmed. Will listen🙏🏽❤️
I just listened to @TChiarletti1 podcast on Emotional Labour, Race & the NHS - it was excellent. It was also hard to listen to. I drifted off and wept, realised I’d scratched my skin so hard I’d drawn blood. Very close to home and particularly pertinent on taking care of >
> yourself because otherwise the system will destroy you. Seeking out support and understanding your place within it, what you can do. The consequences of raising issues - being positioned as a troublemaker. Tulika positioned herself by taking into account her background, her >
1. Check out this great thread. Here is my own experience in this area. I have an MSc in working effectively with people diagnosed with ‘personality disorder’. This includes service design & critically using various models to inform this, ie. all systems analysis, org change >
2. group theory etc AS WELL AS ensuring needs of SUs met first. Studying as an LXP was f* hard because there was the need to constantly critique this through an experiential lens rather than the tried & tested other disciplines who have loads of academic resources to rely on. >
3. We also had to factor in issues such as the contested and western lens diagnosis designed by people from a certain demographic, how it impacted on people on end users from another demographic and intersectionality. We had to justify our positions academically and demonstrate >
1/Surely this indicates an overt example of discrimination - in this instance, saneism- against #LXP Peer Support Work roles? Is this discrimination on the part of #AgendaForChange#A4C or is it unscrupulous managers writing job descriptions that use keywords to dumb down roles?>
2/This is why we need #LXP senior roles so that we have recruiting managers who work within our discipline who understand the different levels of skillsets required for each type of job & ensure that these aren’t belittled by conflicting internal agendas. Presently no structures>
3/are in place in most organisations to prevent this and #LXP staff are at the mercy of benevolent individuals rather than a robust system to protect them from discrimination in the workplace structures & working environments. That just isn’t good enough. The other issue is that>
This. I am diagnosed with various labels that mean I face stigma in services I access. My job is to use the insight from that to improve those services. The problem is, I face stigma in my job because of those diagnoses too. In order to mitigate the stigma, I got a >
> Masters Degree in the job I work in to so that there would be no excuse for non Lived Experience staff to continue to make decisions in how to co-produce services. Like @keirangoddard1’s question in his thread, this was treated as an obstruction to the status quo, a threat >
> something to be silenced and shown the door. Non LXP staff have ensured that future co-production will not be developed by specialist LXP staff trained in the areas of mental health they work in, as well as being trained >
PLS RT: Does anyone know of any #LXP (Lived Experience Professional roles ie. Peer Support Workers, Lived Experience Researchers) that have reached Employment Tribunal stage for Disability Discrimination in the UK? All I’ve heard of reach settlement before court stage #MadTwitter
Employment & Equality of #LXP’s is something that I’m trying to build understanding of because presently it is disparate and isolated by employer or even employee. I hadn’t realised til recently that there have been quite a few Tribunal applications >
> for discrimination at work, however all I have heard of where settled prior to court. I can’t find any examples of one going to Employment Tribunal Court. I’d really appreciate if people could put this out there so I can discover & collate any examples. They will be of great >
Doing a Daisy 🐈 all day today. It’s been the morn/afternoon/eve after one of the crazier NYEs in my life. But every New Years Day is a reminder of Mum. 21y, but still remembering today. The shock of learning that #Epilepsy kills. She never made a big deal/complained about it 💜>
2/ Apart from a disabled rail pass she never really seemed ill. She somehow managed 4 very strong minded kids and a difficult life. Her life got more and more difficult as her life went on and her last 7 years were very sad indeed, she was physically very disabled & very unhappy
3/ That’s the saddest thing I remember. Her being sad and having had such a shitty life, especially at the end. I think of her as a very loving Mum who was a real homemaker and an incredible cook. She could could anything. Whip up meals for a family of six out of leftovers. >