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Standard Issue Podcast

SIM Ep 384 Chops 165: The imperfect art of caring with Penny Wincer

Standard Issue Podcast

Standard Issue

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Penny Wincer is a two-time carer, single mum and author of the eye-opening Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring. In this Chops, she chats to Mickey about the loaded nature of the term ‘carer’, how disabled people have been thrown under the bus, the absolute pittance unpaid carers receive in the UK, the unique intersection of disability, the medical versus social model of dealing with disability, and the importance of individual stories in helping us understand what need to be done to make lives better for disabled people and those looking after and supporting them. 

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0:00.0

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Standard Issue for all women.

0:35.0

Hello Mickey here.

0:37.0

Welcome to one of two servings of Sunday Champs, you lucky Smasher.

0:41.0

Over on the other one, Hannah is having a cracking chat about the history, or rather

0:45.4

her story of working mums with Dr Helen McCarthy, historian and author of New Book Double Lives.

0:51.8

I've had a listen and it is properly fascinating. They cover a lot, including

0:56.3

how society and feminism have viewed mums and work and how working mums have viewed themselves.

1:01.7

Also, given we're in the midst of the worst crisis in

1:04.1

child care and living memory, they ask what the future may hold for women who want to

1:07.9

have kids and careers. Speaking of which, it would be very remiss of me not to giddily shout,

1:14.0

Jenny's had a baby at this point.

1:17.0

We are of course utterly delighted.

1:19.0

Jen is smitten with little Eldog, and both mother and daughter are safe and well until sheep bitey and

1:23.9

and hehanna gets a look in but more on that over on Hannah's chops as for this one

1:28.3

it is the full chat I had with Penny Windsor two-time carer single mom and author of the eye-opening tender, the imperfect art of caring.

1:35.8

You may well have heard a bit of mine and pennies Natter on this week's pod, where we covered the loaded

1:40.5

nature of the term carer, how disabled people have been thrown under the bus and

1:44.2

the absolute pittance unpaid carers receiving the UK. Here we're also covering the unique

1:49.9

intersection of disability and boy-o-boy is that an eye-opener too. The medical versus

1:55.0

social model of dealing with disability and the importance of individual stories in

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