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Posted: Tuesday 6 September, 2016
Media Representation – Me Before You

Earlier this year, Me Before You was released in cinemas. The film, based on JoJo Moyes’ 2012 best-selling book, explores the decision of a man who wants to end a life because of a severe disability. Will Traynor (played by Sam Claflin), who became a quadriplegic in a pedestrian accident,...
Posted: Monday 25 July, 2016
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 and discrimination a person living with mental illness will receive is not from their family, friends or even their community. In...
Posted: Friday 27 May, 2016
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 would believe that. Disability metaphors abound in our culture, and they exist almost entirely as pejoratives. You see something wrong? Compare...
Posted: Thursday 16 July, 2015
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. My new album, “Fine Line” is making history because I made it to be accessible to people who are blind or Deaf. The...