Emilie’s crowdfunder page is now live.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/disabled-woman-usa-fightforukvisa Use the link above to visit the crowdfunder page for Emilie’s legal fees for an immigration lawyer to fight for her to gain a residential UK visa to protect her from persecution living as a disabled person in the USA.

I’m mad

I’m mad about the hairs on my legs. I’m mad that because it’s hot I feel like I have to do something about them. I’m mad that dark thick hairs show up harshly against my pale stretch-marked thighs. I’m mad because this is what I’m mad about. Greece is burning and Sweden is burning and

Help me publicise Emilie’s chapter!

In November, I started working quite regularly with a woman named Emilie, who has been studying a foundation year course on our campus, and who spends a lot of time in the library. We have now become very close friends, and now that both of our courses are done for the year (I say that

A diagnoooosis (and my third post of the day)

If you watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, you know how to read/sing the title of this post. If not, give it a shot, it’s a good show. If the title of the show puts you off, maybe you should question why, and get over it. Also I just realised that without context it just looks like I’ve

Mental health medication and work (from September to May)

Medication for mental health is often prescribed as a stop-gap between needing help and getting help, considering the 3-6+ month waiting lists for counselling, CBT, DBT, psychotherapy, etc. However, as each type of medication can effect people quite differently, it is also something which you may need to try different types of over weeks or

Doing a Library MA: DON’T (Just Kidding)

It is May. I’m forcing myself to post today because if I don’t it will be June. I started drafting this post in January, so to give a more accurate overview of how this first year in library work and library study has gone (and make myself feel like I can find positivity in having

In defence of talking to yourself (yes, including in public!)

In these heady days of wireless headsets and Bluetooth devices, you would think people would be getting a bit less judgemental about those people who casually walk around muttering to themselves. But as a person who owns neither of those pieces of tech, yet can frequently be found walking around grumbling to myself, I can tell you that this

Library anxiety (not mine, yours)

I have an annotated bibliography and reflective report due in essentially 18 hours so this is the last thing I should be doing right now, but there’s a concept I’ve come across in my research for said bibliography that I want to explore a little. Partly because it is almost the inverse of this blog’s

Filler post

To-do lists Disordered eating Mental health medication and work Information Overload MA LISM These are the topics of the five drafts I have had lined up for the last.. 6 weeks? Funnily enough, that coincides with the start of my Library MA. Coincidence? DEFINITELY NOT. I am just about keeping up with the course but

Impostor Syndrome

I’ve been going on about this post for ages so it’d better be good. If it isn’t then you’ll find out what a terrible fraudulent human I am and how I shouldn’t be allowed to post my ramblings on the internet. Enjoy. So, what is impostor syndrome? Well, I’m glad you asked. Coined in 1978 by