Read Nadia Clarke’s reaction to when she heard her local council were requiring her to contribute to her care package, and then think of ways to help with her situation.
UKDHM 2022 Launch Event
A playlist of the individual contributions (without sign language interpretation) is available here:
Mo Charge interview for Sky News on Wheelchair Access and Horse Racing
Former bookmaker Mo Charge discusses his life in horse racing and gives his views on how the sport caters for people with disabilities.
Rebecca W Morris on Brain Fog
In this newsletter I have collected ideas in literature and art that helped me to understand its effects on me over the years before I had a name for it. I’m also including anecdotes and illustrations from people who suffer from it, and a visual soundscape I made to describe how it feels.
Hidden impairment interviews for UKDHM 2021
Interviews with Katy Farrell on epilepsy, Yasmin Omar on being a teacher with MS, visually impaired barrister Christina Warner and Emma Charters on dyslexia.
Connected By Threads: How generations of disabled women artists have found a voice through textiles
Gill Crawshaw has created an illustrated essay which tells a story of disabled women and textiles.
Early Day Motion in UK Parliament
Get Your MP to sign! https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/59089 EDM (Early Day Motion) 607: tabled on 01 November 2021 Tabled in the 2021-22 session. Motion text That this House recognises 18 November to 18 December is Disability History Month which is now in its…
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…
Secondary / KS3 & KS4
Resources and activities for secondary students