Ali Hayward
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Location | Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I'm a severely disabled wheelchair user, living in the UK with my 15-year-old disability activist daughter who has a label of CP. My 27-year-old son is busy living life and learning. I’m a feminist into disability politics, social justice, equality and current affairs. I’m also a writer who recently graduated with an MA in English Literature – Creative Writing and I’m qualified to teach adults in Lifelong Learning too. I'd love to get meaningful part-time work but no success so far. It'll happen. I'm a bit of an ageing hippy, who works hard and loves life even though it's seldom straightforward. I'm in pain 24/7 and have a list almost as long as my arm of other 'diagnosis' including depression and Ulcerative Colitis which makes me feel pretty shitty. My pain meds can make me feel slow and tired sometimes. It makes me feel less intelligent, less aware, less interested or interesting! Sometimes I forget my words – hard for a wordsmith. But there are many good things too I love summer warmth, good company, red wine, budget foodie stuff, film, theatre and ‘the’ arts. But really I'm just ordinary - a woman, a mum and a loyal friend. |
| Interests | Creative writing, being creative, fascinated by non-religious religion and spirituality (and the 'rules' people choose to live by), cooking healthily on a budget, keeping as healthy and well as possible, current affairs, living within our means - finding bargains, disability rights and politics, social justice, equality and diversity, civil rights for all, cats, camping, music, reading, poetry, prose, 'the' arts, compassion, making new 'quality' friends, good conversation, spending time with existing 'quality' friends, the idea of travelling hopefully leading to actual travelling one day, long hot summers, the odd BBQ...... the list goes on....just life really |
Your hand has been replaced by a rubber stamp. What does it say?
Respect, compassion, love.