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Posted: Thursday 20 October, 2016
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 Media Studio to further investigate the notion of a ‘fixed’ and an ‘unfixed’ body. With the controversial ‘superhuman’ and ‘disabled’ rhetoric...
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: Wednesday 22 July, 2015
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 was immediately drawn to the ipad screens with pastel-yellow backgrounds and black writing scrawled across the page. There were post-it notes...