Plans for 2024. I have an appointment with my MP Kwasi Kwarteng at the end of the month to discuss institutionalized disability oppression, my project and how to get it to be seen in parliament. This feels momentous and I revise my prepared 20 minutes appointment with him very often. It is very easy to prepare for this as, daily almost there is another instance of institutionalized disability oppression published in the media in the UK. I’m beginning to realize that this event is not the end of my project. I have made application for a studio take over in Kingston, I have made an application to do an artist residency on it in Paris for French people. My research has led me to understand that disability oppression in France is the same problem as in the UK . There is also my daily experience of disability oppression which is a very stark reminder that Society thinks we are subhuman. My Story Telling Coat has been in Hastings Museum and Art gallery for the past three months in an exhibition called Stored Out of Sight : History of Disabled People. It has been an exciting experience realizing that a group called Curating for Change (an organisation that allows disabled people to Curate) could find a whole exhibition by and about disabled people in Hastings Museum art gallery. It shows how society hides and ignored disabled people. Recently a group of disabled people’s organizations arranged a meeting in parliament for MPs only 10 MPs turned up. This was very disheartening but has only increased my desire to get the subject seen and discussed by MP’s. No talk of embroidery here, which doesn’t mean that I’m not sewing, because I never not sew. 2023 was a successful year, my first solo exhibition in a while, Artists and Disability Oppression : Up Close and Intensive at the Brewery Tap UCA project gallery in Folkstone in March was very successful. I continue to write a blog for Disability Arts Online. I had a piece of my work shown in the Working Class Creative Database group exhibition called Unknown Friends in Farrington, London. I ran a workshop on Textiles and the Climate emergency for Kingston Stitchers. I joined Ariadne’s Thread in Tolworth to help with cross stitching a panel of a painting by a Ukrainian women painter Maria Premechenko to be sent back to Ukraine after the end of the war.