🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 9 January 2025
YOU DIDN’T SHOW UP. AND STILL, I’M CALLED NON-COMPLIANT.
Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: No-Show Social Work, Bureaucratic Double Standards, Birthday Surveillance, Ignored Emails, Disabled Boundaries, Email Theatre, Institutional Disinterest
📨 Sent To:
Laura Savage, Kirsty Hornal, Dr Philip Reid, Simon O’Meara, and any other inbox watching silently for a misstep—
Let the record reflect:
The social worker didn’t show up.
I was home. Ill. Documented. Available.
And once again, I was harassed for not responding—
by the very people who ignored me for an entire year.
🕯️ WHAT I SAID:
“Social worker didn’t show up today.”
“I’m tired of being bothered while I’m sick.”
“I’m not responding to emails since no one responded to mine for a full year.”
“We won’t be home on my birthday.”
🧾 THE TRANSLATION FOR THE RECORD:
Disregarding my emails for a year = normal
Not answering yours while I’m sick = non-engagement
Social worker failure to attend = forgotten
Mother asserting boundaries = non-cooperative
You’re not monitoring risk. You’re manufacturing it.
🎂 BIRTHDAY NOTICE:
We won’t be home.
Because being surveilled on your birthday is not a rite of passage.
It’s state harassment wrapped in scheduled visitation.
🔁 SYSTEMIC PATTERN:
They ignore.
Then accuse.
Then reframe your boundary as instability.
Then pretend not to understand.
Polly Chromatic
Documented. Misunderstood on purpose.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swankarchive.com
Labels: Kirsty Hornal, Laura Savage, no-show social work, ignored mother, birthday boundary, email retaliation, surveillance refusal, institutional non-response, snobby, medical fatigue, chronic disregard, mislabelled non-compliance, sovereignty asserted, Flat 22