What is 'Sick of being Patient'?

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The word patient and patience both come from the Latin word 'Patien', which means 'one who suffers'. 'Sick of being Patient, is the home to a range of visual and written creative solo and collaborative projects by Charlie Fitz. Many of the visual art projects are collaborative pieces with Oscar Vinter. Fitz & Vinter are partners in art and life. The projects aim to resist and challenge the expectation that the 'sick' person be patient, passive and submissive to medical institutions and a society that is systematically failing the chronically ill and disabled. 

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Who is Charlie Fitz?

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Charlie Fitz is a sick and disabled artist and writer based in the UK. Her pronouns are she/her/they. She is a Wellcome Trust funded Medical Humanities Postgraduate Researcher at Birkbeck, a founding member of Resting Up Collective and recently received Arts Council funding for a collaborative project. Her multiform works explore lived experiences of illness, disability and trauma; whilst aiming to resist and challenge the expectation that the 'sick' be patient or passive to Western biomedicine.