June 2022 Editorial
Alas, summer is here and solstice is just around the corner. This quarter we’ve got an issue packed with giving people and communities from the margins, a platform as, that is what we do.
Fighting From the Fringes: Going it Alone in a Microcosm of Hell
For the last 6 to 7 years, I’ve been fighting a local authority surrounding my adult son who has complex additional needs in the form of hearing impairment/partially sighted with some learning difficulties.
How Art Helped me to Process my Psychosis
“I like to call it ‘The Andy Warhol Effect’ - not sure if it exists, but for me, it’s the idea that I can use art to cope with the chaos I can’t control.” - Rebecca Toms
Dating apps in the divergent world: It wasn’t made for us
In 2020, it was estimated that a whopping 280 million people globally are using dating apps, and this was an estimate predicted for 2024 - but the pandemic sped the online dating game up drastically.
With Gender-Transitioning on the Rise, Barriers are Challenged
For most, the blueprint of one’s identity is a ‘given’ for life. Yet, for some the ‘given’ leads to questioning and the need for an identity which fits.
Borders and Bodybuilding: Insights into life as a refugee in Europe (part 2)
“I really liked when I helped. You forget yourself, your problems, that you are in that situation.” Abbas.
Talking to Tayo
With open season on activism, whistle blowers and descent on any level worldwide, now more than ever it is compelling and crucial to recognise the sentiment of activism – particularly through art or storytelling.
Follow-Up: Where’s the Bus? Exeter residents are still stranded
The simplest things are often not only unnecessarily complicated, but inaccessible. I’m SO FED UP with official types making a song-and-dance of the most routine acts, let alone a lack of insight and an insistence that everyone fits a one-size-fits-all model.
Community Integration, Participation and the Right to Self-Fulfilment
“My Job Centre Plus worker told me about this place and because of the type of job I wanted, she thought it would be a good steppingstone to help me in between my jobs and career path.” Said Tamara.
March 2022 Editorial
Welcome to this, our special celebratory issue, as Barriers to Bridges Magazine is 1 year old this month and as the Founding Editor, I couldn’t be more over-the-moon with pride!