Politics of Pain
The politics of pain refers to the way suffering is recognised, ignored, ranked, or used within public systems. In school advocacy, it helps analyse whose distress is treated as urgent, whose pain is minimised, and whose harm must become visible before institutions respond.
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Iatrogenic harm and the parent advocate: how school systems produce disability in the families they fail
The body keeps the account even when the institution refuses to. What the school system produced in the parent who spent years trying to hold it accountable is not caregiver burden — a word that belongs to the person carrying it — but iatrogenic harm: specific, dated, attributable, and fully known to the institutions that…