Disability Power 100 2024: Breaking Barriers Together

Tanvir Naomi BushActivism, Awards, Disability Leave a Comment

Thrilled to Join the Disability Power 100 2024 I am thrilled to share my inclusion in the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 2024 list as a Grassroots Community Activist! This recognition as one of the 100 most influential disabled individuals in the UK is an incredible honour. The awards are publicly nominated and judged by an exceptional panel of 25 disabled leaders, including Dr Shani Dhanda, David Clark of Paralympics GB, and Coronation Street actor Cherylee Houston. To have my […]

To Boldly Go…Home!

Tanvir Naomi BushCoronavirus, Disability, Guide Dogs, Visual Impairment Leave a Comment

Captain’s log; Startled date 02/04/2020 Death toll: 2921 Issues: ineffective testing, PPI and anxiety of the rise eugenic speak in the media and beyond. Upside: clapping for key workers. Downside; memories of Tory government cheering the blocking of nurses and fire-fighters 1% wage increase in 2017 Today we entered the second stage of the new normal where the adrenaline drops and the realisation that we cannot return home creeps into our consciousness, creating a gravity echo that leads to a […]

Bat-sick Crazy March 23rd 2020

Tanvir Naomi BushCoronavirus, Disability, Guide Dogs, Visual Impairment, Writing 2 Comments

Last Monday I was on the bus trying not to touch anything with my hands- -which is tricky if you are visually impaired, bus lurching, Mitzie sliding helplessly into the aisle. Back then, hundreds of long hours ago, when we were still living in that other England, a gaggle of pensioners were braving it out in the backseats, muttering, squeaking and giggling like teenagers bunking off school. Across from Mitzie and I, a baby in a pram coughed snottily and […]

Disability, climate change and community resillience.

Tanvir Naomi BushCull, Disability Leave a Comment

Presentation at the Bristol ‘Untold Stories’ event: Arnolfini; July 27th 2019 In my last novel, CULL, published at the beginning of the year, I envisioned a dystopian ‘other England’ where life for disabled people was almost unbearable, where a bill had been passed to force the elderly and disabled into huge institutions and where the government was developing an experiment in state sponsored euthanasia as a cost cutting method. It’s a blast!  No seriously!  I made it as funny and […]

My April Rebellion: The CULL Launch Film!

Tanvir Naomi BushCull, Disability, Film, Guide Dogs 1 Comment

Rebellion against April’s hostile environments Brexit extensions and Extinction Rebellions and here we are in April, ducking between showers, whooping at the sight of cherry blossom and grinning up into the lighter evenings. It’s a crazy time, but at least one can feel the coming of summer. I must believe that the days will lighten further and Mitzie is convinced of it! The delightful Mitzie is now six-months into her tenure and is proving a real superhero! There are still a […]

Oh, What A Night!

Tanvir Naomi BushCull, Disability, Guide Dogs, Visual Impairment, Writing 2 Comments

My Mum was over from France which was lucky. ‘How does this look?’ I asked, feeling 15 years old. My eyes are still  bit blurry but I also have NO fashion sense! ‘Emmm… it’s ‘nice”, said Mum with a worried expression. My heart plummeted. You see my Mum can’t lie about things like this. Her using the word ‘nice’ is like a surgeon using the word, ‘hopeful’.  Not something you want to hear a few minutes before the op. I […]

CULL Book Launch! Celebrate with Me!

Tanvir Naomi BushCull, Disability, Guide Dogs, Writing Leave a Comment

Three years, a PhD, a myriad rejections, eventually an excited agent, an amazing publisher and a torrent of support, encouragement and kicking up the arse and LOOK what happened! CULL has been born and you are all welcome to the party! I have so much to tell you but just for the moment, I wanted to let you know that, as of January 2019, the novel CULL is in the shops, thanks to YOU! Your official invitation to the CULL […]

Creating literary medicine from Nazi poison

Tanvir Naomi BushCull, Disability, Writing 3 Comments

I write this to celebrate the wonderful news that we have hit 91% …and have 207 beautiful, brave, clearly remarkably intelligent and compassionate supporters. I want to thank you with all my heart! I also write this because it is the 21st August and Deaf and Disability organisations from across the United Kingdom will today highlight the Government’s ongoing human rights violations and evasive behaviour towards a major United Nations committee. This is happening today because the UK government has to […]

And still we rise…! 84%!

Tanvir Naomi BushCull, Disability, Guide Dogs, Visual Impairment, Writing 2 Comments

CULL has hit 84% of total and is on a roll! For those of you unsure about what this is all about, what the hell kind of novel it is and why on earth you should pledge and become part of this wonderful project, please allow me to shed some light! CULL is my second novel,  a literary fiction set in ‘another England’ where austerity has set the country’s teeth on edge. Hate crime is on the rise and the […]