Andrea Barrett

@andreabarrett.bsky.social

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Campaigner, Patient Advocate & Artist. Volunteer w/ NHSBT CTAG, CVF, PTHOTA. Founder: Clean Air Hampshire. Posts on: Disability Justice, gardening, Transplant Life, Clinical Vulnerability, cats, #CleanAir, Long Covid & Neurodivergence (AuDHD).😷💊🎗💗💜💙🇬🇧🇦🇹🇮🇪🐈🌱🍂

Festive colourful lights, baggy blue masks, Thank You NHS stones on NHS outpatients ward, December 2024
Row of purslane AKA claytonia, with ehote id tag, a leafy green vegetable in polytunnel
Andrea on train in fitted basic white ffp2, black coat, her dark blonde hair visible, dark orangey red beanie hat and red tartan scarf.
Andrea in ffp2 mask in hospital in front of window she opened
Casper the cat looking serious, surrounded by blankets and an armchair
Modern problems require modern solutions meme
Casper alert at the henry hoover but still mostly folded loaf, perching his head on the chair for moral support
NHS display on Mary Seacole & welcome to Mary Seacole ward. A few paragraphs about her life, slightly sanitised version of turbulence and barriers she faced due to systemic racism in UK, her Scottish father, Jamaican mother and heritage as a healer, contemporary of Florence Nightingale, how she had to fundraise to fund business enterprises as mediums for practicing medicine, such as in the Crimean War. The retirement benefit, a precursor to modern mutual aid, was attended by thousands in London, where she lived out her days following workplace acquired chronic ill health.
6 December postcard with a white Santa Dumbledore figure with a papal hat smiling at a red chained devil. Black and gold contrasts too, the 4 alchemical colours and movements.
NHS poster saying NHS prepared to deal with Covid and that handwashing best way to protect yourself and others. Photographed in England hospital in autumn 2024.
Andrea in mask, hospital mirror selfie next to a 12 step best practice handwashing instructions image
Andrea in turquoise mask, wearing hoods from two hoody jumpers, black and brown, brown glasses, green eyes, white skin, indoors.
Sign that says Trespassers will be composted
Andrea reaching out to Caspers outstretched paw. He is on a grey blanket.
Andrea wearing a navy blue mask on a blue train carriage ,long dark blonde hair, glasses
White cat with downcast expression on lavender purple towel atop a printer. Orange armchair to bottom, blue butterfly taxidermy above the cat.