#disabilityrights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #disabilityrights, aggregated by home.social.
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Call Luna. Learn Anything: Meet Derek Fine and Luna AI, Now Sponsoring Access Information News | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/meet-derek-fine-and-luna-ai/An AI tutor you reach by ordinary phone call or WhatsApp - no app, no account, no screen. Load your own notes, PDFs or a Quizlet set and it teaches from your material, and calling is free. Aaron Di Blasi introduces the sponsor and founder Derek Fine.
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Call Luna. Learn Anything: Meet Derek Fine and Luna AI, Now Sponsoring Access Information News | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/meet-derek-fine-and-luna-ai/An AI tutor you reach by ordinary phone call or WhatsApp - no app, no account, no screen. Load your own notes, PDFs or a Quizlet set and it teaches from your material, and calling is free. Aaron Di Blasi introduces the sponsor and founder Derek Fine.
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Call Luna. Learn Anything: Meet Derek Fine and Luna AI, Now Sponsoring Access Information News | By Aaron Di Blasi, Publisher | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://accessinformationnews.com/meet-derek-fine-and-luna-ai/An AI tutor you reach by ordinary phone call or WhatsApp - no app, no account, no screen. Load your own notes, PDFs or a Quizlet set and it teaches from your material, and calling is free. Aaron Di Blasi introduces the sponsor and founder Derek Fine.
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117226113967982260
Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.
#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117226113967982260
Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.
#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117226113967982260
Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.
#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117226113967982260
Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.
#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability
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RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@aceofcosmicspace/117226113967982260
Boost for reach, help where you can, fediverse! Poverty plus disability is hard AF.
#boost #boostplease #MutualAidSavesLives #MutualAidRequest #mutualaidspace #MutualAidMonday #MutualAidThread @mutualaid #letsgo #help #trans #lgbtqia #transgender #chronicillness #disabilityrights #disability
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Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/braille-is-beautiful-braille-is-literacy/Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.
#Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity
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Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/braille-is-beautiful-braille-is-literacy/Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.
#Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity
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Braille Is Beautiful, and Braille Is Literacy | By Dr. Kirk Adams | Courtesy of the PWD Media Co-Op
https://drkirkadams.com/braille-is-beautiful-braille-is-literacy/Kirk Adams argues braille is not an enrichment activity but literacy itself, and that the right principle is not braille or technology but braille and technology. Then he fact-checks his own side: the familiar 10% claim rests on a 1979 report, and the 90% employment figure on a 1996 study of 74 adults.
#Braille #DisabilityRights #DisabilityCommunity #BlindCommunity
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I’m autistic. Here’s what happened to us this week.
Federal officials are closing the comment window on a 336-page autism research plan. It could steer priorities at NIH, CDC, and beyond for the next two years. Advocates had to push for more time just to read it.
Meanwhile, prescriptions for leucovorin rose 46% after White House autism claims. But the largest supporting trial was retracted earlier this year.
And in North Carolina, new Medicaid rules for autism therapy are already raising access questions for families and providers.
This isn’t abstract policy. It shapes what gets studied, prescribed, funded, restricted... and who gets heard.
What story in this week’s briefing hits closest to home for you?
#ActuallyAutistic #DisabilityRights #Neurodivergent #MentalHealth #AutismResearch
https://johnnyprofaneknapp.substack.com/p/divergent-times-august-1319-2026
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Canada’s possible expansion of MAID for mental illness is worrisome, including for high schools
#Canada #MAID #MentalHealth #DisabilityRights #Schools #Education #Disability #HumanRights #SpecialEducation #Ethics #MentalIllness #Quebec #Ontario #Manitoba
https://the-14.com/canadas-possible-expansion-of-maid-for-mental-illness-is-worrisome-including-for-high-schools/ -
PCB is happy to see the National Constitution Center expanding tactile offerings for blind & low vision visitors.
However, the current schedule is limited.
PCB encourages the Center to build on this progress.
We would welcome the chance to help think through what broader access could look like.
This is a good start. Let’s keep moving forward.
Accessibility is a right, not a luxury.
#PCBPeers #AccessibilityMatters #BlindCommunity #LowVision #MuseumAccess #TactileTours #DisabilityRights
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Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts. Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.
In this engaging interview, Talila A. Lewis argues that ableism has deep implications for every other marginalized identity. In short, ableism, according to Lewis, is at the root of other powerful hegemonic sites — from race and class to colonialism and nationality. In this way, they uncover the ways in which ableism insidiously operates across space and time. As an abolitionist community lawyer, educator and organizer, Lewis has focused on abolishing the medical-carceral-industrial complex and highlighting the inextricable links between ableism, racism, classism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.
#PeopleWithDisabilities #DecolonizeYourMind #AntiAbleism #DisabledLivesMatter #Decolonization #EndOppression #Intersectionality #Activism #DisabledActivists #BeAComrade #NoAbleism #DisabilityRights #HumanRights #Classism #Colonialism #Capitalism #Inequality #Liberation #Inequity #marginalized #RiseUpAgainstAbleism #StopBeingEnableists #Educational #DisabilityAwareness #Inclusion #NothingWithUsWithoutUs
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Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts. Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.
In this engaging interview, Talila A. Lewis argues that ableism has deep implications for every other marginalized identity. In short, ableism, according to Lewis, is at the root of other powerful hegemonic sites — from race and class to colonialism and nationality. In this way, they uncover the ways in which ableism insidiously operates across space and time. As an abolitionist community lawyer, educator and organizer, Lewis has focused on abolishing the medical-carceral-industrial complex and highlighting the inextricable links between ableism, racism, classism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.
#PeopleWithDisabilities #DecolonizeYourMind #AntiAbleism #DisabledLivesMatter #Decolonization #EndOppression #Intersectionality #Activism #DisabledActivists #BeAComrade #NoAbleism #DisabilityRights #HumanRights #Classism #Colonialism #Capitalism #Inequality #Liberation #Inequity #marginalized #RiseUpAgainstAbleism #StopBeingEnableists #Educational #DisabilityAwareness #Inclusion #NothingWithUsWithoutUs
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Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts. Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.
In this engaging interview, Talila A. Lewis argues that ableism has deep implications for every other marginalized identity. In short, ableism, according to Lewis, is at the root of other powerful hegemonic sites — from race and class to colonialism and nationality. In this way, they uncover the ways in which ableism insidiously operates across space and time. As an abolitionist community lawyer, educator and organizer, Lewis has focused on abolishing the medical-carceral-industrial complex and highlighting the inextricable links between ableism, racism, classism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.
#PeopleWithDisabilities #DecolonizeYourMind #AntiAbleism #DisabledLivesMatter #Decolonization #EndOppression #Intersectionality #Activism #DisabledActivists #BeAComrade #NoAbleism #DisabilityRights #HumanRights #Classism #Colonialism #Capitalism #Inequality #Liberation #Inequity #marginalized #RiseUpAgainstAbleism #StopBeingEnableists #Educational #DisabilityAwareness #Inclusion #NothingWithUsWithoutUs
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Ableism Enables All Forms of Inequity and Hampers All Liberation Efforts. Ableism has been used for generations to degrade, oppress, control and disappear disabled and nondisabled people alike.
In this engaging interview, Talila A. Lewis argues that ableism has deep implications for every other marginalized identity. In short, ableism, according to Lewis, is at the root of other powerful hegemonic sites — from race and class to colonialism and nationality. In this way, they uncover the ways in which ableism insidiously operates across space and time. As an abolitionist community lawyer, educator and organizer, Lewis has focused on abolishing the medical-carceral-industrial complex and highlighting the inextricable links between ableism, racism, classism, and all other forms of oppression and violence.
#PeopleWithDisabilities #DecolonizeYourMind #AntiAbleism #DisabledLivesMatter #Decolonization #EndOppression #Intersectionality #Activism #DisabledActivists #BeAComrade #NoAbleism #DisabilityRights #HumanRights #Classism #Colonialism #Capitalism #Inequality #Liberation #Inequity #marginalized #RiseUpAgainstAbleism #StopBeingEnableists #Educational #DisabilityAwareness #Inclusion #NothingWithUsWithoutUs
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New England Cherishes Its Local Elections. Many Disabled Voters Are Locked Out.
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On International Day of #People with #Disabilities, please note some disabilities are #invisible
#invisibleillness #disabled #disabledpeople #DisabilityRights #DisabilityRightsAreHumanRights
#IDPD #IDPD2025 #IDPD25 #IDPWD #IDPWD25 #IDPWD2025 #Disability
@mecfs @longcovid @pots
#LongCovid #MEcfs #CFS #PwME #hiddenillness #chronicillness #Invisibledisability -
#VisuallyImpaired #voters sue #NewHampshire over changes to #Absentee #BallotAccess
The plaintiffs say the new law will deter some voters with #disabilities from participating in the democratic process at all, even after they have registered to voteBy Steven Porter Globe Staff, Updated August 21, 2025, 9:30 a.m.
"Three people with visual impairments are suing New Hampshire officials to challenge the constitutionality of a law that will soon tighten #PhotoID requirements for voters seeking an #AbsenteeBallot.
"The plaintiffs — Adele Robertson of #ExeterNH, Daniel Frye of #ConcordNH, and Regina Wilson of #BrentwoodNH — allege the new law, known as #SenateBill287, will impose a significant burden on every #AbsenteeVoter statewide.
" 'And, in some cases, these burdens will entirely prevent voters from exercising their #RightToVote,' their lawsuit states.
Under the new rules imposed by #SB287, voters will be required to either bring a photo ID to their local election officials to request an absentee ballot in person, or submit a copy of their ID or a notarized signature along with their application.
While proponents said the legislation will better protect election integrity, critics said the changes will add barriers that disproportionately impact #seniors, voters with #disabilities, and those living in #rural parts of the state."Read more:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/21/metro/nh-blind-disabilities-voters-absentee-ballots/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/DWXKG#VoterDisenfranchisement #DisabilityRights #USPol #NHPol #AbsenteeVoting #USElections
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The London police had 7 cops turn up to arrest an autistic activist in his supported accommodation flat. He had only attended some meeting and handed out flyers- he had no intention of being involved in disruptive protest and says he now suffers from PTSD as a result of police treatment.
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A pattern of practices, both deliberate and unintentional, has concealed the history of Massachusetts’ state institutions from the public, including institutional survivors and their family members. This is the finding of a newly released report from the Massachusetts Special Commission on State Institutions — a commission that was made up of majority disabled people, many with personal experience of having been institutionalized. Here’s @gbhnews’s story about the report, which could have national ramifications, since Massachusetts was the home of the U.S.'s first institution for disabled people, creating a blueprint for the nation.
#Disability #DisabilityRights #Massachusetts #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
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Little goofy art for Autism awareness/acceptance month!
#Autism #Autistic #AutisticRights #AutisticArtist #AutisticArt #ActuallyAutistic #AutismAwareness #AutismAcceptance #Acceptance #AutismPride #Disability #DisabilityRights #DisabledArtist #DisabilityArt #Art #MastoArt #Krita #Furry #FurryArt #FurryArtist
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Disabled women are more likely to experience abuse than their non disabled peers.
We’re often trapped with caregivers who treat us badly & lack the financial support to leave. We may also be physically dependent on the abuser for basic activities of daily living.
Many disability benefits are cut if you marry or cohabitate, which further enforces dependency.
For International Women’s Day help us fight for a universal basic income, better social and medical support and access so that we may regain as much autonomy as possible.
#IWD2025 #InternationalWomensDay #disability #disabilityrights #ableism #ubi #autonomy #abuse
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A #CradleCatholic. As a wee lad, I did all the stuff - Baptism, First Communion, Confirmation. I was born here all my life. When I was around four years old, the church kicked out my mom and, by extension, my family. An #ExcludedCatholic? I explored other practices and faiths, #meditation, #yoga, #Buddhism, and all the things. I wanted to not convert to a religion or practice that I had not been born to or wasn't otherwise ancestrally connected. A deep dive into Protestant fellowships lead to immersion into the #EarlyChurch Fathers and early #ChurchHistory. Entering the #OrthodoxChurch, I lived in several monasteries and wandered around the US like the guy in Way of a Pilgrim. I was ultimately drawn to #Theosis and the #PrayerOfTheHeart, sometimes called the #JesusPrayer. Long story short, decades later, a pandemic, and a few ends of the world, here I am. The #2024Election US has me wondering about US Christianities that support social actions and movements that contradict the teachings of Jesus. Shouldn't Christ's Gospel teachings be central?
Some of my interests:
#NewMexico #Ogapoge #SantaFe #SantaFeRiver #Water #Birds #Plants #Medicine #Hiking #Walking #NaturePhotography #Biophilia #Wilderness #Rewild #Rewilding #Regenerative #RegenerativeDesign #UniversalDesign #RegenerativeAg #RegenAg #AppropriateTechnology #Contemplation #Hesychasm #Prayer #Ancestors #Death #Dying #Grief #DeathDoula #DeathAdvocacy #Apophatic #RadicalCompassion #Compassion #SocialJustice #PublicHealth #SocialWork #EnvironmentalJustice #DisabilityRights #HealthEquity #Recovery #RecoveryPosse #Drawing #Writing #VisualThinking #WriteToThink #Journal #BulletJournal #SystemsChange #Humanrights #Inclusion #Accessability #InvisibleDisabilityRights #DisabilityVoice #RacialEquality #PublicHealth #Grief #Hospice #Humanrights #Food #Health #Fasting #MovementI'll continue to post interest hashtags in this thread to be.
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Liebe Alle.
sagt hallo zu @Behindertenpride 💚
Das ist der Account der Behinderten Pride in Kiel am 30.07.2023.Lasst ein Follow da. Das Team macht super Arbeit!
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#DisabilityPride #Disabled #Behindert #DisabilityRights #Inklusion #TheFutureIsInclusive #BehindertenRechte
#Intersektionalität #TheFutureIsIntersectional #DisabilityPride
#Selbstbestimmung #FollowFriday #Barreirefrei #Barrierearm #Solidarität #NotAboutUsWithoutUs #Kiel #ChronicallyIll #ChronischKrank #Neurodivers #neurodiverse -
"Arrests are Almost Like Merit Badges" – Protesters Change History for Citizens with Disabilities:
Today, Out Of Exile – Invisible Disability Rights honors "The Gang of 19" and the disability rights activist group, "ADAPT" (Atlantis Community). Forty-five years ago this week, they demanded, and were instrumental in winning, independence for people with mobility disabilities across the country. This act, is considered by many, to be the birth of the disability rights movement in the US. The unique methods they used, make their story worth exploring… They're just that cool.
On July 5, 1978, as a Denver RTD bus was picking up passengers at Colfax Avenue and Broadway, a group of individuals rolled their wheelchairs in front of the vehicle. After a second bus pulled up to the stop, other wheelchair users maneuvered themselves behind it, forming a blockade. The buses remained trapped between the wheelchair users for the next 24 hours. Chanting, "WE WILL RIDE!", the protesters message of "TAXATION WITHOUT TRANSPORTATION" forced a nation to take notice of the disability rights movement. Are the tax dollars of persons are with disabilities worth less than the tax dollars of others? Are individuals with disabilities deserving of less public accommodations than their "abled" co-citizens? The demand: That one third of Denver city buses be made wheelchair accessible. Thanks to the courage of "the gang's" heroic actions, public buses across the country are equipped to provide accessibility, independence and a bit of equality for people with disabilities.
Check out the "Gang of 19" PBS documentary contained in the links below. You can also read more about the bus blockade, ADAPT's role in the Americans With Disabilities Act, or the time wheelchair user's pulverized a curb with sledgehammers thus, forging the way for inclines at crosswalks. In hindsight, it's outrageous that it took a sledgehammer demolition, to generate understanding about the barriers and safety concerns facing wheelchair users, just trying to cross the street. There is however, much more work to be done to better the lives of all people with disabilities.
Every year as fireworks explode in celebration, I raise a glass to toast the liberty that these "Denver Pioneers" fought to win, for so many with disabilities. The neurodivergent thinkers behind these creative acts of social defiance, are nothing short of legendary. The anniversary of the "Gang of 19" blockade is truly something to celebrate. It also serves as a reminder that, a loud voice or action is sometimes necessary in the fight for disability rights, equality and, to finally #TearDownTheWall.
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." Martin Luther King Jr.OutOfExile_IDR ™ – © 2023.
Don't forget the ALT text.
Gang of 19 – History.com: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gang-of-19-disability-activists-protest-denver-bus-system
"Arrests are Almost Like Merit Badges" More Stories of ADAPT Activism: https://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/05/adapt-disabled-activists-denver/
Watch the PBS special – We Will Ride: 44 years after the "Gang of 19" protests: https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/rocky-mountain-pbs/gang-of-19-43-year-anniversary/
More on the "Gang of 19": https://abilitychicagoinfo.blogspot.com/2017/07/we-will-ride-adapt-gang-of-19-in-denver.html
More Work to Be Done: https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/rocky-mountain-pbs/more-work-to-be-done-42-years-after-gang-of-19-protest/
Remembering the Gang of 19: https://www.westword.com/news/disability-protesters-gang-of-19-remembered-in-denver-10496346
#GangOf19 #ADAPT #disability #DisabilityRights #activism #SocialJustice #protest #equality #change #InvisibleDisabilityRights #SpeakUp4Change #accessibility #NoBarriers #accommodation #WheelchairUsers #ADA #DisabilityCommunity #DisabilitySolidarity #DisabilityVoice #respect #dignity #CommunityIntegration #NeurodivergentThinking #heroes #MLK
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What to do with the mad people?
Outta sight outta mind.
History. Treatments. Surgery. Sterilization.
#MadLiterature
The Rise and Fall of the Asylum
PBS series: Mysteries of Mental Illness
About an hour long
Aired: 06/23/21
Expires: 07/22/24
https://www.pbs.org/video/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-asylum-mbvisj/——
Hashtags & Group mentions below#DorotheaDix #eugenics #Galton #darwin #MoralTreatment #history
#documentary #asylum
#AntiBlackSanism
#Madness #MadMastodon #MadPride #MadThought
#MadMovement #MadStudies #Mad #Madodon #TransMad#Ablesim #DisabilityCommunity #InvisibleDisabilities
#PsychiatricSurvivor #AntiPsychiatry #DisabilityJustice
#LivedExperience #PsychSurvivor #ChronicPain
#DisabilityMastodon #Neurodivergent #RadicalMentalHealth
#CripCamp #DisabilityRights #NeuroDiversity
#Sanism #Disability #DisabilityStudies
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This is all I need today!
When I noticed that there was no online attendance option for Chloé Hayden's tour, I reached out. Chloe's Mum (Sarah), was kind enough to look into this for me.
Although it was not achievable this time, Sarah advised that they will now be offering online attendance as an option for events going forward.I love it when event organisers; who had overlooked live-streams as a mechanism to inclusion, act on feedback and commit to removing such barriers to participation. Even better when they actively acknowledge your contribution and encourage you to continue the fight for better disability inclusion.
Will you now make the same commitment?
#WeAreBrimbank #disabilityinclusion #autisminclusion #coviding #disabilityrights #disabilityawareness #disabilitysupport #disabilityadvocate #disability #neurodiversity #neurodiversityacceptance #neurodiversityawareness #neurodiverse #ASD #asdawareness #chloehayden #DifferentNotLess
