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\"[This novel is] the profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in the space of a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis\"--Amazon.com.
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Telling Tales to Share Multiple Truths: Disability and Workplace Bullying -- A Semi-Fiction Case Study
Bullying is widely recognised as a huge problem for workers, and the organisations employing them. While a great deal of workplace bullying research has already been done, two areas have not been adequately investigated: (1) the experiences of disabled workers being bullied, especially in light of their already disadvantaged work lives; and, (2) the multiple perspectives of all those involved in workplace bullying events – targets, third parties, and bullies (or those accused of bullying). This article responds directly to calls from past bullying researchers for more nuanced and sensitive analyses that include the use of creative writing (See Tracy et al.,
Management Communication Quarterly, 20
(2), 148–185,
2006
: 177). An in-depth, multiple perspective, semi-fictional case study is shared that showcases a disabled woman’s lived experience of being bullied out of her workplace after disclosing her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) to her line manager.
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Sean Griswold's head
After discovering that her father has multiple sclerosis, fifteen-year-old Payton begins counselling sessions at school, which lead her to become interested in a boy in her biology class, have a falling out with her best friend, develop an interest in bike riding, and eventually allow her to come to terms with life's uncertainties.
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DARK TIMES FOR WORKERS WITH DISABILITY: SHAME EXPERIENCES FOR WORKERS WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS) - A CREATIVE NON-FICTION, COLLECTIVE CASE STUDY
These are dark times for Australians with disability: Labour force participation rates are just 53% (compared to 81% for able bodied), and declining; earnings are around half that of those without disability; access to the Australian Disability Support Pension (DSP) is being restricted; and, most disturbingly, around 45% of Australians with disability are currently living at or below the poverty line (Bennett, 2011). A creative non-fiction, collective case study of the Shame Experiences for workers with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is presented. Shame is a powerful social emotion resulting in strong feelings of defeat, failure, and rejection -- at work, it is at the root of much suffering, and may contribute to people with disability leaving work prematurely. However, shame is subject to influence and, therefore, amelioration. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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On the bright side
When eighteen-year-old Ellie's Deaf boarding school shuts down, she attends a public high school where she struggles to adjust, but finds an ally in Jackson, a soccer player going through a disability diagnosis of his own.
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Go now
Nick Cameron is an active young Scottish plasterer whose social life revolves around football and his mates. Meeting and falling in love with Karen, a trainee hotel manager, is the icing on the cake. But just as they move in together, Nick's idyllic life is shattered by multiple sclerosis. As his body gradually deteriorates, he experiences a wide sweep of jagged emotions. Ignoring her friend's advice to leave him, Karen does her best to help him come to terms with his illness. Authentic and unsentimental, Go Now is a poignant love story, powerful drama and razor-sharp comedy, partly based on co-writer Paul Powell's personal experiences of MS.
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The weight of a thousand feathers
Seventeen-year-old Bobby Seed, the devoted but exhausted primary caregiver for his terminally-ill mother and difficult younger brother, finds respite in a support group and good friends, but must face his mother's impossible choice alone.
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Here's Johnny
Documentary about graphic artist Johnny Hicklenton and his life with multiple sclerosis. Johnny escapes the frustration of immobility through his artwork and artistic interpretations of key moments in his battle with the disease. This film also sees him sample various, often bizarre, treatments, including the use of powder used to help the muscle tone of competition horses.
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Love from A to Z
Eighteen-year-old Muslims Adam and Zayneb meet in Doha, Qatar, during spring break and fall in love as both struggle to find a way to live their own truths.
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