Shelley GrayWorld Down Syndrome Day 2024This year World Down Syndrome Day is calling on us to #EndTheStereotypes.Mar 21Mar 21
Shelley GrayA little updateIt’s been another Winter when Rosa’s medical notes feature the term ‘a stormy course’. But outside snowdrops are pushing through and it…Feb 5, 2023Feb 5, 2023
Shelley GrayThe thing that broke my heart… (part two)Heartbroken — a word that’s echoed through the past week as women respond to the overturning of Roe v Wade.Jun 29, 2022Jun 29, 2022
Shelley GraySocks and solidarityThe first blog I wrote about Down’s syndrome — Odd Socks on an Odd Day — was just as we’d all gone into lockdown for the first time. Two…Mar 21, 2022Mar 21, 2022
Shelley GrayBuying timeAt the start of all this we bought time. And now that most of us don’t have to worry too much about what will happen if we get covid, we’re…Dec 30, 2021Dec 30, 2021
Shelley GraySmall World(Originally written on 8 Dec 21, a day when news broke of more parties in №10 during last winter’s lockdown. Feeling furious, and a little…Dec 18, 2021Dec 18, 2021
Shelley GrayFearAs I leave my girl at nursery — the cutest little festive fairy in her Christmas dress — there’s a knot in my stomach. If we stop her…Dec 15, 2021Dec 15, 2021
Shelley GrayA short thread about language & human rights(originally published on Twitter)Jul 7, 2021Jul 7, 2021
Shelley GrayThe thing that broke my heart when Rosa was bornThe thing that broke my heart after Rosa was born wasn’t that she had Down’s syndrome.Jul 5, 2021Jul 5, 2021
