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Campfire Community: Virtual Crip Camp 2020
Disability Awareness isn't just important for non-disabled people. Alex Foster, a Volunteer Support Worker for Toucan Diversity, explores her identity within the disability community, exposing the myth of the disability hierarchy. Following the success of Netflix...
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution Part 2
This post was originally published on 19th April 2020 by one of our Volunteer Support Workers, Alex Foster on her blog 'Tales From The Chair'. Is the fight really over? The battle for equal rights is perfectly encapsulated in the second half of Netflix's documentary...
Disability Equality versus Disability Awareness Training
Participants who attend Disability Awareness Training sessions often take part in so-called ‘simulation’ exercises. Such exercises, which include being blindfolded or being put into wheelchairs, are said to give non-disabled people a ‘deeper’ understanding of what it...
Is “Diversity” at The BAFTA’s #TakingTheDis?
It seems the media at large are taking the word diversity and concluding it relates solely to ethnicity and gender. There's not enough diversity at the BAFTA's. There's not enough people of colour, there's not enough women. The topic of inclusion has become the "in...
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution Part 1
Netflix's new documentary 'Crip Camp' takes a candid look at the US Civil Rights Movement that no one talks about. A Disability Revolution. [Orginally published by the author on 29th March 2020]. Would you like to see handicapped people depicted as people? Excuse me?...