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Lessons learned from a year of limitations

Looking back at the onslaught of challenges I’ve overcome, lead me to ask myself “how did I survive?”

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Why disabled imagination offers us all a path towards liberation

It requires us to question everything we assume about the world, and the bodies that inhabit it

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What we’ve enjoyed reading, watching and listening to in 2020

A round up of 15+ resources that have shaped our thinking and practice.

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10 Resources to Get Started with Disability Activism

This list is not finite, but it is a great place to start your (hopefully) lifelong journey with disability activism.

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How to make your organising and activism meetings accessible

By adopting good habits, you show disabled people that you and your organisation are serious about making their needs a priority.

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Balancing urgency and patience when the world is burning around us

Looking at the history of our movements for patience also means looking to the future to embrace urgency.

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Books

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century by Alice Wong

by Alice Wong

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Generation Share

by Benita Matofska and Sophie Sheinwald

The Art of Asking

by Amanda Palmer

More Time to Think

by Nancy Kline

Teaching to Transgress

by bell hooks

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

by Paulo Freire

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