Completed first month of leading our new & exciting project to explore & improve hospital care for people with learning disabilities. We’ve had two fun PPIE meetings and another this week, plus lots of setup work. Still thrilled the NIHR are supporting this work www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5xgq7...
As someone with disabilities who has been corrected by abled people over my own language around disability, I couldn’t agree more. Some well intentioned people seem determined to render English unfit for purpose.
14) It doesn't matter whether I, as a person with disabilities, win every fight of every moment in that competition, because fascists don't give a flying fuck about our internal discrepancies, other than to exploit them. There's no reason to "debate" fascists. Every reason to discuss internally 13/x
personally, i don't see a problem with avoiding unnecessarily gendered language, words with very negative connotations about disabilities, and using the word cancer willy-nilly to describe things that are not cancer might just be built different
people are getting too casual about making fun of other people with disabilities
As part of New Orleans’s plans for the Super Bowl in February, the city is embarking on a citywide effort to make the city more accessible to fans w/disabilities. For Fast Company I looked at how cities are using big events to improve infrastructure for everyone www.fastcompany.com/91199352/new...
More than 500 infrastructure projects are underway in New Orleans in the run-up to the Super Bowl.
Today on the AOAS Pod Squad: @bodiesofhorror.bsky.social digs into both versions of SPEAK NO EVIL (2022 and 2024), "congenital aglossia", how lack of speaking leads to vulnerability, and what the different endings say about valuing people with disabilities.
For this episode, Nichole digs into both the 2022 and 2024 versions of Speak No Evil and specifically the character(s) of Abel/Ant - the young boy that we are t
That’s what I’ve been thinking recently. To this day, I’m stunned that Trump being up on stage mocking someone with disabilities didn’t end his political career eight years ago. Now here we are: he’s consorting with LITERAL NAZIS and it’s treated like a typical news day. This country is psychotic.