The Laughing Boy audience will take their seats to a playlist of Connor's favourite songs. How blinking cool is that?

Re-upping my thread about the death of Christopher Kapessa
#JusticeForChristopherKapessa

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I'm seeing it tomorrow. Based on what I know of #JusticeforLB , Prof Ryan's Justice for Laughing Boy, Stephen Unwin's words on writing/directing it and the well-deserved media reports so far, I expect to feel the full range: joy, anger, hope, fear & more❤️
jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/show/laughing-…

It’s often seen as additional punishment/ cruelty

Bulldozing scatters and crushes the remains and makes identity so much harder to find. This places a community in a situation of “forensic uncertainty” which is well documented in human rights forensics and will traumatise generations to come

We train in human rights forensics that this is only ever done by regimes looking to cover up and also create long term confusion for communities. It’s desperate to see incorporated into the actions of an army desperately trying to claim moral authority news.sky.com/story/israel-b…

This government continues its stellar record on LGBTQIA+ issues...
mmu.ac.uk/news-and-event…

‘People like Connor are still left to die in squalor’: the truth, joy and tragedy behind Laughing Boy
theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr…
#JusticeforLB

‘’As Huggins says: 'We put our faith in the system and got desperately let down.'

10 years later and people are still desperately let down.

#Laughingboy

Disability Studies peeps, we (Sociology at Leeds) are recruiting a Lecturer in DS (T&R Grade 8) looking especially for a global/transnational focus, global south/east, indigeneity, decolonisation or transnational/comparative research.
Deadline 17 May
bit.ly/DSLectureship

Yay, got my ticket to see #laughingboy at the @jsTheatre Anyone fancy joining me on 1 May? Such an important story that needs telling and retelling until the system stops dehumanising people. #learningdisability #autism #connorsparrowhawk

'...all the evidence points to one thing: that some of our fellow human beings are treated as less than human by the systems of politics and culture that surround them.'

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2014: Prof Ryan & Rich let me ask grim, awful things. Their words, fired by love, led to🔽on how #JusticeforLB #107days 'may' force closer scrutiny of such scandals..'may'? It did this & more.
Now Stephen Unwin new play Jermyn Street Theatre keeps the light shining.
theguardian.com/society/2014/m…

It’s true…
⁦Prof Ryan⁩ ❤️

Gross neglect contributes to death of man with Down's Syndrome - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Project management system… 👀 👀 👀

What’s another word for cover-up?