@jackrnicholas

Writer: prose poetry hypertext Director: Community Navigator Services CIC Partner: Nicholas Allen Stammerer helping others find a voice, tell their stories...

 Alvechurch, Worcestershire
jacknicholas.substack.com/
Joined May 2009
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Fascinating City Lit event tomorrow discussing disfluency, intersectionality, and dysfluent art. citylit.ac.uk/courses/stamme… International range of speakers including @jackrnicholas from CNS.
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1 in 5 of us will experience suicidal thoughts in our lifetime. Make yourself suicide-aware this #WorldSuicidePreventionDay and learn how to ask directly about suicide if you're worried about someone. Find free resources and training on our website: stopsuicidepledge.org
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In a great blog ow.ly/hsAb50KAofs for @stammer, @kirsten_howells talks about feeling an imposter when asking for help and saying "I stammer". I wonder if this is a common feeling, and that part of being a community is countering any hierarchy of stammering.
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I come across a lot of advice suggesting we should meet fears / demons / whatever head on. I have been worrying if this is really useful or if it risks encouraging people to rush into a difficult situation unprepared. 1/4
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The result was a personal crisis that took a long time to work through. The irony is I would never have contemplated running a marathon or climbing a mountain without a planned build up. A training programme. 3/4
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The obstacle is the way, but often you learn to go round not blast through. Yes, you have to face a challenge. One of mine currently is stammering openly. But how do we reframe "head on" to mean directly but slowly, thoughtfully, and with allies? 4/4
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This is, IMHO, such a difficult situation: balancing a respect for others' perspectives, feelings, and journeys, with also encouraging and being true to ideas and perspectives that you hold dear.
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Me when I see people expressing ableism in and outside our community, an example, I heard a PWS on a national radio station "I don't see myself as a stutterer anymore because I dont have the mindset of a stutterer now". Oh !! So we all have the same mindset 😡 #ableism
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Ableist language and thinking needs to be challenged but that is so much harder when we feel it might be unconscious or accidental. I think PWS are often skilled in seeking the unsaid that lies below the spoken. Not a bad mindset to have (!) but not an exact science.
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None of this is easy on social media, the 280 characters of a tweet. Which is why this thread of mine is both too long and too short...
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Quaker Wendy Geiger wrote: “Love is like light; it enters wherever there is a crack or door ajar in one’s heart.. You begin somewhere and practice loving. … once you open your heart to loving one thing, then another, you may .. find yourself enjoying how loving makes you feel.”
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Last day of a wonderful #STAMMAFestGlobal2022. Will be sad to see it end but feel strangely calm - not least because today managed to put on wristband without swearing.
Wristband for StammaFest - reads “Sunday”

ALT Wristband for StammaFest - reads “Sunday”

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I think @stammer should sell packs of these beer mats. Surreptitiously, we could leave them on pub tables across the country. Practical activism, changing the world one drink at a time.
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Accidentally came across this quote from Descent of Man by Grayson Perry, and had to edit it a little to suit an inspiring, forward looking, tolerant, celebratory #STAMMAFestGlobal2022. #ItsHowWeTalk #DifferenceNotDefect
The 'ideal' future might just be increasing tolerance and celebration of (crossed out) masculinities (replaced by) dysfluency born out of increasing awareness of what feels good for the individual and for society. Ongoing, pluralistic, messy negotiation may be the best that I can offer you, but it is a damn sight better than the suicidal rigidity of the cliche of (crossed out) masculinity (replaced by) fluency held on to by so many. The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry.

ALT The 'ideal' future might just be increasing tolerance and celebration of (crossed out) masculinities (replaced by) dysfluency born out of increasing awareness of what feels good for the individual and for society. Ongoing, pluralistic, messy negotiation may be the best that I can offer you, but it is a damn sight better than the suicidal rigidity of the cliche of (crossed out) masculinity (replaced by) fluency held on to by so many. The Descent of Man by Grayson Perry.

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Rob Punton reviews Ricky Reel: Silence is not an option. Sukhdev Reel's account of a 25-year wait for justice. communitynavigatorservices.o…. @clentonF @PuntonRobert @CNS_save
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Watch “Personal Best” LINK A beautiful piece of film making and the best thing (IMHO) to come out of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games, 2022. youtube.com/watch?v=t5XbtQK5… @clentonF @PuntonRobert @CNS_save @AdvocacyMatters @BostinCreative A thread 1/6
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Time is not to be valued, controlled, and grudgingly allocative by those in power proud of their busy diaries. 5/6
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Time is not to be measured in the seconds required to exchange information, access or deliver a service. Time is to be savoured, shared, the channel for creating relationships, making dreams possible. 6/6
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