Imagination is the most advanced human faculty — The imagination is that faculty which gives form to thought — … form capable of being uttered in shape or in sound, or in any mode upon which the senses can lay hold. …

Personal essay about needing, finding and freeing space — “Ideas, representations or values which do not succeed in making their mark on space, and thus generating (or producing) an appropriate morphology, will lose all pith and become mere signs, resolve themselves into abstract descriptions, or mutate into fantasies.” — Henri Lefebvre. (1974/91). The Production of Space. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing…

Words, Not Walls — DYSPLA Founder, Lennie Varvarides speaks on why poetry is urgently needed in areas of high deprivation Before you begin reading this post, let me say that I am not an Education Specialist — but I am an expert on how society and schools fail people with Learning Differences through the work I do at DYSPLA. I identify as Working Class…

LIKE WHO? …I hear you ask…, well, like; Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W. B. …

September 2023 — This post highlights events and opportunities from our ND community as well as in-house projects from DYSPLA.

How to wake on a Sunday — If the morning is too precious to stir — Let it sit on the moist sheets for a little longer. Let the breeze blow in through the open window until the smell of sex softens. Movement is a time machine leaning moments forward. Let's not rush that future inward. — Do…

Camden Fringe — world premiere — A neuroqueer 21st-century take on moral philosophy, realpolitik, sexuality and what it might really mean to be Machiavellian. The Machiavelli Project is part of the 2023 Camden Fringe and is a tragicomedy about Niccolò Machiavelli, produced by Achy Bits Productions, a transgender and neurodivergent-led theatre company. The Machiavelli Project is a three-hander written by Oakley Swinson, a trans woman who also plays Niccolò Machiavelli, to celebrate the Renaissance diplomat and philosopher on his 555th birthday.

June, July & August round-up of events by or for Neurodivergent people — This post highlights events and opportunities from our ND community as well as in-house projects from DYSPLA. Another couple of busy months for DYSPLA means we are sharing news later than normal. Sometimes, I too just burn out and can't get myself back on track. Here is a recap of activities in June 2023 DYSPLA spent some time in…

Litter, trash, waste, garbage, and fly-tipping are evidence of social decline. — I don’t remember when this street view became ‘normal’ — but it is normal now. Fly-tipping, or ‘Litter Dumpping’ is normal in North London and likely normal where you live too, especially if you live in a congested London Borough. London was reported as having the highest incidences of fly-tipping…