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Biscuits and Beckett In Brooklyn
A week ago today I did my last performance of ‘Not I’ in New York. We were there for two weeks as part of The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival. There wasn’t a suitable space for the show at...
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Join The Team
Back in January we announced the exciting news that Touretteshero had been given a grant from Arts Council England’s Elevate Fund to develop and grow our team and the work that we do. Our mission is to...
View ArticleTouretteshero COVID-19 Statement
This post is to address the COVID-19 outbreak and to describe what we are planning to do as a Company. As a disabled-led organisation, our primary focus is to maintain the health and wellbeing of all...
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Survival of the Crip-est
In a matter of weeks life across the world has changed dramatically, and like most people I’ve been trying to adapt to the uncertain times ahead. While many people are focused on navigating the...
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COVID-19: A Million Emails Later
In just a few weeks, many of the assumptions we’ve taken for granted for generations have been totally transformed. While this is undoubtably a surreal and scary time, we’ve seen how quickly systems...
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Lockdown Learning - An Opportunity For Change
Exactly one month ago, on 23rd March 2020, the UK entered ‘lockdown’ to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. This means everyone stays at home except for essential travel, food shopping and exercise. As a...
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Survival of the Crip-est - 28 Days Later
A month ago, at the start of lockdown, I wrote about the huge amounts of extra time and labour I was having to expend just to meet my basic requirements for safety, health, nutrition, finance and...
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Shielded
On a Friday exactly two months ago, my working week was drawing to an end. It’d been a busy week, full of meetings and rehearsals for a forthcoming tour of our stage show ‘Not I’. With hindsight there...
View ArticleLocked Out Of London
Today, out of the blue, there have been a series of announcements about travel in London that are seriously concerning many disabled people. Moving about this vast city as a disabled person can be...
View ArticleSerena Bhandari - Jobstacle Course
It’s the end of the month and that means it’s time to hear from resident guest blogger Serena. This month Serena’s sharing her experience of job hunting as someone with Tourettes. While job hunting is...
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Solidarity
A lot has happened since last autumn when I wrote about the Elevate funding we’d received from Arts Council England to help the Touretteshero team grow and make new plans for the future. Our plans...
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It’s the Matrix
Last week the Government announced another national lockdown that will be in place into early December. In what is starting to feel like a brief intermission between lockdowns, we did some company...
View ArticleTOURETTESHERO COVID UPDATE
Back in November I wrote about the risk matrix we created to help make quick decisions on how we work in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and our own capacity. The matrix builds on our initial...
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A Solid Start - Welcome Katie
The last year’s been a difficult one for everyone – but it’s presented some particular challenges for disabled people. Here at Touretteshero, the COVID-19 pandemic’s meant we’ve been focusing on...
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Wheelchair Love - A Guide for New Wheelchair Users
Today is International Wheelchair Day – to me this is like Valentine’s Day, but for wheelchair users and their chairs. It’s almost ten years since my tics began having a significant impact on my...
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To Mute or Not to Mute
A little over a year ago the world changed overnight and for many disabled people this meant that the barriers we experience changed too. For some, this meant new challenges and frustrations, while for...
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Future Scribers!
We’re really excited to be introducing Future Scribers – a live scribing traineeship for three deaf, disabled and neurodivergent illustrators, led by Touretteshero and Amber Anderson. What is live...
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Together We Rise
I’ve always loved drawing, although as a child this was complicated by my obsessional impulses. I needed every picture to be perfect, which meant that I’d start again if there was even a tiny mistake....
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Bureaucracy Burn Out
I wrote recently about burn out and the steps we take at Touretteshero to help prevent it. While I’m lucky not to get burnt out by my work as an artist, I’m feeling utterly exhausted by the relentless...
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Fix Your Priorities - Imogen Johnstone
Earlier this year we launched our pilot Young Artists Development Programme (YADP). Ten incredible disabled and/or neurodivergent artists have been working on developing a creative idea or project....
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