Mother says her 24-year-old son’s care at a hospital in Cheshire is ‘worse than being in prison’The family of an autistic man confined to an apartment and fed through a hatch are planning a legal challenge against his conditions, in a case that will in…
Treasure Island review – BSL production a sign of progress
Derby theatreJim Hawkins becomes a young woman (or two) in this joyous but flawed adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic taleWhile this is a sometimes flawed production, with an occasionally uneven pace and a script that could do with more dept…
Writing While Disabled
Strange Horizons presents a conversation between Mary Robinette Kowal and Kristy Anne Cox “In hindsight, they are things that I have dealt with my entire life and have affected my ability to move through the world, because the world is not built for pe…
“the now-expected upwelling of frustration tinged with hysteria”
Two short scifi stories about accommodating disability. “Metal and Flesh” by Marie Vibbert is darker: “Five stitched the cloth with a single thread in the human way.” “Fractured” by Aimee Kuzenski is more triumphant eventually, but starts: “Since the s…
work expectations that that go beyond my scholarly productivity
Roundtable on Academic Ableism. A discussion from Kayden, Krystal, Cait, Nicole of Disabled in Grad School (Oct 2020). Transcript.
Actor Renu Arora: ‘I saw my leg go under the bus and thought I was dead and gone’
Four years ago, she was involved in a horrific accident. Little did she know it would leave her uniquely prepared to play a noblewoman hit by a falling elephant in the RSC’s new Christmas musicalOne Wednesday evening in March 2017, everything changed f…
Woman with Down’s syndrome loses UK abortion law case
Heidi Crowter argued that allowing pregnancy terminations up to birth if the foetus has Down’s syndrome is discriminatoryA woman with Down’s syndrome who took Sajid Javid to court over the UK’s abortion law has lost her case in the high court.Heidi Cro…
The universal credit cut is outrageous, but this callousness is nothing new | Frances Ryan
From the bedroom tax to ESA reductions, a gulf between those who make policy and those affected by it has brought a decade of miseryNext month, universal credit will be cut back by £20 to its pre-pandemic level. A policy that will – by the admission of…
Holiday homes for disabled people face closure due to England’s vaccines mandate
Charity says Covid policy is having ‘devastating consequences’ for sector already in crisisCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSome of England’s only holiday homes for disabled people in care are facing closure due to the policy…
Paralympians bring home gold medals, but we’re failing them on web accessibility
With the internet taking an increasingly central part in our lives, we’re seeing the same exclusionary practices that we experienced — and fought — all those years ago reappearing in a new form.