#disabilityhistorymonth — Public Fediverse posts

This #DisabilityHistoryMonth, we spoke to Pratik Rachh and Rob Mahony about the weekly Super 1s sessions that take place at The County Ground and how important they are for all the participants.

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It’s Disability History Month, a time to raise awareness and celebrate the history and achievements of disabled people and communities. It’s also a time to highlight the ongoing struggles for equality disabled people face.

We stand in solidarity with disabled people and communities and celebrate our disabled team members, supporters and siblings!

#DisabilityHistoryMonth #DisabilityAwareness #Disabled #TheBarriersWeFace #AbleismExists

ParaPride is hosting an in-person social event for Disability History Month 2025.

“Join us on Saturday 15th November, 3pm - 6pm for an unforgettable celebration at the newly renovated London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. Connect with the Disabled LGBTQ+ community in a lively, inclusive atmosphere filled with engaging conversations and new friendships. Don’t miss this chance to be part of something special."

Get your free tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-parapride-social-celebrating-disability-history-month-tickets-1777974612929?aff=erelexpmlt

#ParaPride #DisabilityHistoryMonth

Every year, conveniently around #DisabilityHistoryMonth, I teach some sessions on #Disability, #SEN, #accessibility and #inclusion to postgrads. As prep I set a task of engaging with the creative and/or professional work of D/disabled people, and posting links on their course forum. In case this is of interest, I did a couple of long Bluesky threads with all their recommendations. https://bsky.app/profile/finesilver.bsky.social in case of interest. (Soz, haven't worked out how to duplicate it all on both platforms yet.)

A British researcher friend of mine is doing a hybrid (Online will be via Zoom with auto captions) UK disability history talk on 11th December, 12-1pm UK time.

You can register for free at https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/disability-history-month/2024/rights-not-charity-a-brief-history-of-uk-disability-rights-in-3-steps

#DisabilityHistoryMonth #UKDisabilityHistory #DisabilityRights

We love sharing trans history at any time of the year, but at the moment it's #DisabilityHistoryMonth and it's a great opportunity for us to share this piece from Rooted in Rights. '4 Activists Who Make Me Proud to Be Disabled and Transgender' https://rootedinrights.org/4-activists-who-make-me-proud-to-be-disabled-and-transgender/

#Trans #Nonbinary #Transgender #Queer #TransHistory #QueerHistory #LGBTQIA #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTI #LGBT

Into podcasts? We love Simply Equality with Sarah Stephenson-Hunter. It's an open, honest exploration of the lived realities of disabled and LGBT+ people. In each episode, Sarah talks to guests about their lives as disabled and LGBT+ people.

https://www.simplyequality.com/podcast

#UKDHM #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBT #Queer #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #DisabilityHistoryMonth

Jazzie Collins was a Black, trans, HIV+ woman. Her campaigning and organizing highlights the way in which so many of our struggles are linked. Jazzie campaigned on economic inequality, housing issues, disability rights and trans rights.

#UKDHM #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBT #Queer #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #TransHistory #DisabilityHistoryMonth

Bobbie Lea Bennett campaigned for access to transition related surgery in the US to be covered by Medicare. Her campaign forced Medicare officials to recognize transition related surgeries as essential. Bobbie was also a disability rights campaigner.

#UKDHM #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBT #Queer #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary #TransHistory #DisabilityHistoryMonth

This #DisabilityHistoryMonth, we're of course talking about disabled trans people from history, but we're also going to highlight some of the people working for change now.

Read this piece from ILGA: 'Meet these powerful activists in the intersection of LGBTI and disabilities.

https://www.ilga-europe.org/blog/idpd2021-meet-powerful-activists-intersection-lgbti-disabilities/

#UKDHM #LGBTQI #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBT #Queer #Trans #Transgender #Nonbinary

And finally we have Emmeline Ledgerwood who researched a key figure in disability rights campaigning: Dr Margaret Agerholm. Find out more about how Dr Agerholm advanced disability rights👇 http://ow.ly/KcO050LUSiA
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #OralHistory #Histodons @histodons @histodon

Next we have Stephen Ball who reflects on the career and legacy of Joseph Ablett. Ablett made a significant contribution to the treatment of mental illness in mid-nineteenth century Wales. Find out about this contribution👇 http://ow.ly/2K4f50LxmXF @histodons @histodon #DisabilityHistoryMonth #MentalHealth #19thCentury

Our next blog is from Andrew Thrush, who reflects on how prominent figures with physical disabilities were treated at court in early modern England. Including how Charles I engaged with court while facing barriers from his peers👉 http://ow.ly/MGZc50LmBT5

#DisabilityHistoryMonth #EarlyModen @histodons @histodon

As #DisabilityHistoryMonth comes to an end, we would like to share with you a few of our blogs that are available all year round. First up, this blog explores the political career of Col. George Thomson, who lost a leg in the battle of Cheriton in 1644. http://ow.ly/me6T50Ltrc0

@histodons @histodon #Histodons #17thCentury

Today we are reflecting on the career of Henry Fawcett, the first completely blind MP. During his career, he helped organise and present the first mass petition calling for women's suffrage. Find out more about him👇
https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2018/07/19/mp-of-the-month-henry-fawcett-1833-84/

@histodons @histodon
#Histodons #WomensHistory #DisabilityHistoryMonth

We welcome guest blogs on past railway staff disabilities, in relation to safety & accidents, so please get in touch with your ideas!

For all our project #DisabilityHistory blog posts so far, have a look at:

https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/category/disability/

#DisabilityHistoryMonth

Being super lazy (battling deadlines!), here's a handy compliation of blog posts touching on #DisabilityHistory from a couple of years ago - though we've done an awful lot more since then, of course:

https://twitter.com/RWLDproject/status/1198546298904989696?s=20

#DisabilityHistoryMonth

'I do not think that this disability had any bearing on the accident.'

#ICYMI our current blog post relates to #DisabilityHistoryMonth.

We look at John Duncan's sight loss & his subsequent accident at #Thornton in #Scotland in 1930:

https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/seeing-disability-in-our-database/

Not a new piece, but I share it for #disabilityHistoryMonth. It is, AFAIK, still more or less the only account of the British churches and learning disability in the post-war period, and still otherwise unpublished.

https://peterwebster.me/2019/07/31/the-church-of-england-and-learning-disability-after-1945-a-first-sketch/

NEW BLOG POST!

‘some months ago the unfortunate man lost the sight of his left eye'

Did this influence John Duncan's 1930 accident at #Thornton, #Fife, #Scotland?

Our final post for 2022's #DisabilityHistoryMonth:

https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/seeing-disability-in-our-database/

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The Guardian: From the wheelchair-using Black Panther to the ‘cripple suffragette’ – 10 #heroes of the #disabled #rights movement

"Creating change starts with growing awareness. So, to mark #DisabilityHistoryMonth, let me share some of these fierce, feisty, overlooked characters with you:

#RosaMayBillinghurst
#BarbaraLisicki
#AlanHoldsworth
#JavedAbidi
#JudyHeumann
#JaneCampbell
#YetnebershNigussie
#StellaYoung
#EdRoberts
#BradLomax"

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/09/from-the-wheelchair-using-black-panther-to-the-cripple-suffragette-10-heroes-of-the-disabled-rights-movement cc: @TeresaHeartchild

#Disabilityhistorymonth: Arthur MacMorrough Kavanagh - BBC News https://buff.ly/3P8eRXe Ten years ago, I wrote this piece for the BBC about a 19th century Irish politician who was born without arms and legs. #Disability

For Disability History Month, Dr Emmeline Ledgerwood has been researching a key figure in disability rights campaigning: Dr Margaret Agerholm. Find out more about how Dr Agerholm advanced disability rights below👇
https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2022/12/06/helping-the-disabled-to-live-to-capacity-rediscovering-dr-margaret-agerholm-through-parliamentary-history/
#DisabilityHistoryMonth #DisabilityHistory #Campaign #OralHistory

#ICYMI this @[email protected] blog post looks at new records in the NRM's collections - incl those relating to staff accidents, #DisabilityHistoryMonth & our project.

By project co-lead & NRM Library Manager Karen Baker, & Associate Archivist Tania Parker:

https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/loss-of-life-and-limb-making-sense-of-railway-worker-accidents/

NEW BLOG POST!

Why was John Kemp back working on the railway lines of #Kent, 3 years after he'd been restricted from working on the tracks on account of his hearing loss?

And what happened in 1929?

https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/too-deaf-to-work-on-the-railway-lines/

Map 1932 (c) @[email protected]
#DisabilityHistoryMonth

#ICYMI our current blog looks at James Waring's accidents in 1920s #Wales.

In the 1st, he lost an arm - returning to work in the same role, only to have a fatal accident in similiar circumstances 3 years' later:

https://www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/work-caused-disability-and-death/

#TGSWinterEvent #DisabilityHistoryMonth

How were prominent figures who had physical disabilities treated at court in early modern England? Dr Andrew Thrush looks at how figures such as Robert Cecil and Charles I engaged with court while facing barriers from their peers👉 http://ow.ly/MGZc50LmBT5

#EarlyModern #CharlesI #Parliament #DisabilityHistoryMonth #Histodons @histodons @histodon

In this blog, Dr Stephen Ball looks into the career and legacy of Joseph Ablett (1773-1848) who made a significant contribution to the treatment of mental illness in mid-nineteenth century Wales. Find out about this contribution👇
http://ow.ly/2K4f50LxmXF

#DisabilityHistoryMonth #MentalHealth #19thCentury #Histodons @histodons @histodon

I don't need a new reason to love libraries but this makes me happy - thanks Welwyn Garden City central library for this lovely shout (on The Other Place).

#MadePossible: my book of success stories by people with learning disabilities - in their own words.

In good company for #DisabilityHistoryMonth

#learningdisability #humanrights #inclusion #equality #publiclibraries

@Unbound

https://twitter.com/WGC_Central_Lib/status/1595719121961996290?s=20&t=LH9RZXgV3MafQr64wCQoNQ

To mark Disability History Month, we're looking back to this blog from Dr Vivienne Larminie, who explored the political career of Col. George Thomson, who lost a leg in the battle of Cheriton in 1644. http://ow.ly/me6T50Ltrc0

#DisabilityHistoryMonth @histodon #Histodons #DisabilityHistory #War #Battle #Politics

How were prominent figures who had physical disabilities treated at court in early modern England? Dr Andrew Thrush looks at how figures such as Robert Cecil and Charles I engaged with court while facing barriers from their peers👉 http://ow.ly/MGZc50LmBT5 #DisabilityHistoryMonth #DHM #DisabilityHistory #EarlyModern #CharlesI

We've added some more books to our lending collection for #DisabilityHistoryMonth

The lending collection is available to Inner Temple staff and Library users.

Titles include:
Crippled - Frances Ryan
Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law - Haben Girman
Year of the Tiger - Alice Wong
Sitting Pretty - Rebekah Taussig
Disability visibility - ed. Alice Wong
Disability: the basics by Tom Shakespeare
What the **** is normal? - Francesca Martinez
Poor little sick girls - Ione Gamble

‘How is it possible for a blind man to be a Member of Parliament?’, demanded the Evening Mail in 1860. He relied on family, friends & hired secretaries to assist him, before marrying Millicent.

Fawcett served as MP for Brighton, 1865-74, and for Hackney from 1874 until his death in 1884.

#MPMonday #Fawcett #DisabilityHistoryMonth

From the 16th of November, the UK will be marking #DisabilityHistoryMonth.

#MPMonday today is Henry Fawcett, husband of the prominent suffrage campaigner Millicent Fawcett and the first completely blind MP. Read about him in this blog 👇
http://ow.ly/Bz9V50LCe9l

#DisabilityHistory #Politics #Histodons #19thCentury @histodons