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Unfixed: the meeting point of art, disability and technology

Rachael Burton the coordinator for Watershed’s creative technology and talent development projects writes about Unfixed 2.0. In September, we welcomed the Unfixed artists to spend a week in the Pervasive...

Date posted: 20 October 2016

a table littered with lego

Tell me a story….

Stories have an amazing way of allowing us to see things in a different light. Here’s a story I heard this week. Research has shown that the most stigma...

Date posted: 25 July 2016

A women wearing a pink top stands in the foreground on the right side of the photograph. She is holding a white folder under her left arm. In her right hand she holds a pencil touching her chin. Her eyes are downcast looking and she looks beyond the edge of the photograph. In the background which is blurred two men sit at their work desks looking at her.

10 Answers to Common Questions People Ask When Being Called Out for Using Ableist Language

The economy has been crippled by debt. You’d have to be insane to want to invade Syria. They’re just blind to the suffering of other people. Only a moron...

Date posted: 27 May 2016

The graphic shows the word “Ableism” in black letters on a white rectangle. Surrounding it is a red circle with a diagonal line across the word.

What is Reasonable and Necessary?

Guest Blogger: Gaele Sobott I first came across ‘Reasonable and Necessary’ at the Undercover Festival in Brisbane at the end of June this year.  I entered the room and...

Date posted: 22 July 2015

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Audio Describing A New Music CD

Guest Blogger: Emma Bennison I will be known to some of you as the Co-CEO of Arts Access Australia, but as as I have said previous blog, I am also a singer/song-writer....

Date posted: 16 July 2015

Emma Bennison sits beneath a bright spotlight within an otherwise dark room. She sits at a piano and sings into a microphone.