Pippa Stacey

Now we’re the midst of Covid-19, our thoughts are tentatively beginning to turn to the process of recovery. For those who have become non-fatally ill with the virus, it’s perhaps less well known that their actions during this recovery period are just as important as those during the acute period of infection. In order to inform and prepare those who may not be aware of the dangers ahead, we need to talk about post-viral fatigue. When it comes to the thousands and thousands of people recovering

Our society labels the disabled community as either superheroes or scroungers. The truth is most of us are living somewhere in the middle, writes Pippa Stacey.

Set in early 20th-century York, Everything Is Possible tells the moving story of Annie Seymour-Pearson, a local housewife who risked her life to fight for the right to vote. Directors Juliet Forster and Katie Posner felt strongly about creating a piece of female-led community theatre showing the unjust struggles faced in the past. Bridget Foreman's play, performed by Pilot Theatre Company, thus focusses on the women of York and their place in the suffragette movement. Taking full advantage of

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This piece was originally written for Scope’s online community, but I never got around to sharing it on my blog. It was this time last year that we were in Disneyland Paris living our very best lives, so here’s something of a throwback… Something I often consider is at what point an invisible illness becomes visible ‘enough’. Why? Because despite using an extremely visible mobility aid, many non-disabled people are still inclined to question whether I actually look unwell enough to use a wheelc

"What happened to you, then?" There's no ideal time to acquire a long-term chronic illness, but becoming disabled halfway through your undergraduate degree has to be up there in the Least Convenient Life Situations list. Adapting to the student experience whilst learning to live with a painful and debilitating neurological condition isn't a walk in the park, especially when your illness is invisible. At times, looking like every other person around me was a blessing, but more often than not, it