Category: Disability
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The Fight for What’s Right: A Reflection on Disability and Advocacy
One evening, I found myself in a thought-provoking conversation with some friends around my kitchen table. As we sipped our drinks and chatted about life’s various aspects, the topic of personal achievement came up. I shared that I’ve had to fight for everything I’ve received in life, a statement that sparked an unexpected response from…
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Banning straws might be good for the planet – but bad for people with disability or swallowing problems. What is ‘eco-ableism’?
This article originally appeared in The Conversation on the 9th of February, 2023. Written by Dr Kate Anderson, Associate Head of School, Teaching and Learning (Health, Disability & Inclusion), Deakin University, and Dr Darryl Sellwood, Research Associate, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University This month, Victoria became the latest Australian state to ban…
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Indigenous Assistive Technology?
This morning as I continue to listen Dark Emu audio book as I was eating breakfast, Bruce Pascoe continued to describe the technological building techniques the Indigenous people in Australia used before being colonised. Listening to Pascoe discuss the different types of buildings the Aboriginals erected all across the country for permanent housing, food storage…
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A statement: “I don’t want to be a part of the disability community.”
The other day I was chatting by Social media, private messaging, with an old school friend. We had live together at Regency Park Centre for a few years in our youths. We haven’t seen each other since high school yet a few months ago we started messaging and chatting together. It has been good to…