As part of my campaign & policy work Disability Rights UK
I will be running a 90 min disability food poverty r/table online next Friday. We are looking for 3 people of lived experience to join & debate.
Your time will be compensated.
For details, email: [email protected]

The longest occupation of a federal building was by Disabled people in 1977. It forced the Carter administration to put regulations around #504, which cleared the path for the #ADA . Newsrooms in general have 0 concept of disability history so opinions are formed on feelings

Disability Traineeships at BBC Wales News now live!

• 8 Weeks
• Paid Traineeship

To check out the Accessible Advert please follow here ➡️ shorturl.at/BFQ38

To apply via Video or Written application, please visit here ➡️ lnkd.in/d54AR45d

What are the radical possibilities of understanding disability as a political identity?

Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) introduces Reimagining Disability, a new series exploring disabled people's agency throughout history.

historyworkshop.org.uk/disability-his…

We are happy to welcome Dr Coreen McGuire and Aparna Nair as series editors to #DisabilityHistory !

With global scope, the series looks into various themes including class, race, gender, sexuality, and many others.

Read the full announcement below!
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2024/04/2…

We still have a small number of spaces left for chapters in the upcoming International Handbook of Feminist Disability Studies. Please consider submitting an abstract. Details are here: drrebeccafish.wordpress.com/2023/03/24/the…

#OtD 26 Apr 1682 revolutionary Quaker abolitionist and little person, Benjamin Lay, was born in England. In 1718, he moved to Barbados as a merchant, but witnessing the horrific treatment of enslaved Africans he became a lifelong anti-slavery campaigner

ENIL member Dr Miro Griffiths MBE created a 'Zine' around the Freedom Drive 2022.

It brings back great memories 🇪🇺✨

➡️ Read more here: enil.eu/wp-content/upl…

#Zine #FreedomDrive #DisabilityRights #IndependentLiving

🚨 #CallForAbstracts 🚨

Disability and Fairy Tales: Keeping the magic, confronting the stigma.

We're delighted to be co-organising this symposium with Professor Nicola Grove (founder of OpenStoryTellers)!

Full details here: disabledtales.co.uk/symposium.html

#Disability #FairyTales #CFP

Disability Studies peeps, we (Sociology at Leeds) are recruiting a Lecturer in DS (T&R Grade 8) looking especially for a global/transnational focus, global south/east, indigeneity, decolonisation or transnational/comparative research.
Deadline 17 May
bit.ly/DSLectureship

My new open-access article with the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences on 'Rethinking Disabled Veterans Across British Imperial Spaces' is now available:

academic.oup.com/jhmas/advance-…

Please share if you can🙂 #histmed #dishist #fwwstudies #WW1

Love this: the dignity of risk and the voices of a mother and son entwined.

What a very lovely looking scholarship opportunity: Arts, Activisdm, and Accessibility: Disability Arts in Wales, 1980-Present, with the very fine David Turner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

FPH Primary Care & PH SIG are hosting a webinar on 10 April about the importance of addressing barriers in equality in healthcare for people with a learning disability.

Register now.

Elizabeth Emsley Amy M Russell kathrin thomas Eleanor Turner-Moss Jonny Currie

fph.org.uk/events-courses…

Thanks to all UCU members who took industrial action to defend our pensions. 69 days of striking was hard and expensive. Special thanks to Lancaster UCU & Leeds University UCU colleagues who brightened up cold picket lines 💪 #PowerInTheUnion

My sister Sarah’s death, 6 years ago this week, was premature rather than explicitly preventable, but still represents a lack of care/valuing of the lives of people with learning disabilities. Her & Mums final years were so much less happy as a result of punitive welfare regimes

Interesting interview introducing a forum on Disability History in France, links through to the article which is free to access till 14th April. Tres bien 🇫🇷

Are #PersonalAssistance services of quality really achievable? In our new joint report with International Labour Organization you'll discover the key findings from a comparison of 9 EU countries 🇪🇺

➡️ Learn more here: youtu.be/vbRI9Xv0Pc4?si…

#DisabledPeople #DisabilityRights #ILO #IndependentLiving

'LGBT has got a T in there for a reason - trans people started our movement'

Writer Armistead Maupin talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about transphobia in the UK and US, and why he's using his voice to stand up for trans rights.

Watch him on Ways to Change the World: youtu.be/Pht23fDI98o?si…

🌟 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: QUALITATIVE DIARY STUDY 🌟

Seeking UK-based individuals with long-term health conditions who work while unwell.

Your participation can advance our understanding of workplace challenges.