Robert L. Gyorgyi reviews Melissa Johns’ Snatched at the Lowry
Rosemary Russett reviews Ad Infinitum’s Extraordinary Wall of Silence at HOME
Concert venues are not providing sufficient support for disabled audience members, Jasmine Taylor shares her experiences
Jasmine Taylor, Disability Rep of the Feminist Collective, and Aisha Al-Janabi, Lifestyle Editor, talk to an archivist at GMCDP to learn about disabled people’s activism
Chatting to Kate Foy – Disability Part-Time-Officer – about the importance of plastic straws, accessibility online and beyond
Chess Bradley ponders whether we have collectively reduced Frida Kahlo into a pop feminism icon
Events include a film screening, a conference of disabled sex workers, and a ‘quiet space’ lunch
LSE faced questions as their Residential and Disability and Wellbeing Services were accused of ignoring the advice of NHS medical professionals and SU officers and of evicting a student with acute mental illness
The government’s recent single-use plastic ban puts too much pressure on the individual and disadvantages disabled people, argues Disabled Society Chair, Sydney King
Netflix’s Sex Education has received high praise for it’s ability to break down taboo topics around sex, and other issues
Georgina Davidson heads down to Hulme to visit Venture Arts, an art organisation working with learning disabled artists
A year after the University of Manchester Students’ Union did the same, Oxford’s SU have passed a motion to replace traditional clapping for BSL clapping
International disabled cheerleader and writer Bec Oakes shares her personal experience of being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and living with the condition at university
Mia Edwards writes about her disappointment with the lack of care for disabled students at University of Manchester, and across the city more widely
‘Victory over Blindness’, outside Piccadilly Station, commemorates the returning blind veterans who fought during the Great War.
The government will be shifting the responsibility for paying for equipment, support workers & travel costs for disabled students to universities