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Waldo’s Circus of Magic & Terror tells a devastating tale whilst showcasing the most dazzling disabled talent

Review: Not F**kin’ Sorry

The last performance of Not F**kin Sorry at Manchester’s Contact Theatre radiated exuberance and unapologetic honesty

Review: Snatched

Robert L. Gyorgyi reviews Melissa Johns’ Snatched at the Lowry

Why the plastic straw ban sucks

Opinion

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

Review: Extraordinary Wall of Silence

Rosemary Russett reviews Ad Infinitum’s Extraordinary Wall of Silence at HOME

Netflix delivers the schooling we all wish we had with Sex Education

Netflix’s Sex Education has received high praise for it’s ability to break down taboo topics around sex, and other issues

Ableist music venues: an ongoing discrimination crisis in music

Concert venues are not providing sufficient support for disabled audience members, Jasmine Taylor shares her experiences

Getting the inside on outsider art at Venture Arts

Georgina Davidson heads down to Hulme to visit Venture Arts, an art organisation working with learning disabled artists

Acknowledging history: talking about disabled people’s activism at GMCDP

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

Clapping banned at Oxford University SU

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

Plastic straws have their merits: let’s talk about disability and accessibility

Chatting to Kate Foy – Disability Part-Time-Officer – about the importance of plastic straws, accessibility online and beyond

Living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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

Is it time white feminism left Frida Kahlo alone?

Arts

Chess Bradley ponders whether we have collectively reduced Frida Kahlo into a pop feminism icon

Steps and stares: Manchester’s inclusion gap

Opinion

Mia Edwards writes about her disappointment with the lack of care for disabled students at University of Manchester, and across the city more widely

Disability History Month arrives at the SU

Events include a film screening, a conference of disabled sex workers, and a ‘quiet space’ lunch

Victory Over Blindness

Arts

‘Victory over Blindness’, outside Piccadilly Station, commemorates the returning blind veterans who fought during the Great War.

LSE accused of evicting a student with mental health difficulties

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

Government to cut disabled students’ funding