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Unfixed. A video by Watershed.

Unfixed is a creative research project involving ten Australian and UK disabled artists investigating the intersection between arts, disability and technology. The artists spent two weeks exploring the notions...

Date posted: 11 November 2016

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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

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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...

Date posted: 6 September 2016

A young women in a blue dress sits on a man's lap smiling at him. Her left arm wraps around him with her hand resting on the back of his wheelchair. The young man wearing brown suit smiles at her.

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.