Author: Amy Wells

I imagine my past medical notes to be a charge sheet. The charge is that I am dependent, difficult and a time waster. I have no right of reply or appeal. Clinical opinion can never be challenged or erased…. more

Tribute to Seni’s Law and Aijibola Lewis The last year has witnessed a proliferation of events, funding, and consultations around… more

Survivors at the sharp end of oppressive practices and history, don’t need rhetoric, game playing or a supremacist gaze but a compassionate praxis always moving toward justice…. more

Imagine that this is not how people see you. Imagine that the stain has been washed off. Imagine that you never sat on the pavement while the paramedics laughed and refused to place you in an ambulance and take you to the hospital, to offer care to a homeless body, a corrupt body, a worthless body, an unnecessary body. Imagine that it didn’t strike you as strange even then: the way your friend’s voice rose in a crescendo of disbelief and outrage, the way you couldn’t quite believe it, couldn’t quite emphasize with their pain. As if you had value. As if you were a human being. As if you were worth saving…. more

On Monday, the police powers bill that has been the topic of a summer of protest under the #KillTheBill movement… more