This year’s UKDHM focuses on two enduring stereotypes that make disabled people’s lives more difficult and act as a barrier to our inclusion.
Interview with UKDHM founder
In this podcast Richard talks us through Disability History Month 2020 and how it all began. Sparked partly by the election of a conservative government which threatened the rights of disabled people, and a conversation in which the founder of LGBTQ+ History Month asked why disabled people didn’t have their own month too, Richard began to raise support.
In this podcast we talk activism, lack of ally-ship, BLM, ableism and how access is still a major barrier for disabled people in Britain.
Disability Oppression 101 with Ellen Morrison & Ellen Clifford
As part of Disability History Month 2020 TWT and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) teamed up to create this introduction to disability oppression video. In it DPAC activist and Labour NEC member Ellen Morrison speaks to author and DPAC activist…
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