friendly reminder that asking a disabled person to review your course/content/website and advise as to whether it’s accessible is consultancy.
consultancy is a paid service.
please pay people for their time, skills and lived experience.
This sort of headline is one reason I wrote my upcoming book. Disability is often seen as binary: a super human ability or pitiable misery. Disabled people shouldn’t to obliged to pretend things are never difficult just to convince the public we’re “normal.”
Free foldable wheelchair!
Looking for someone ideally in #Sheffield to gift my powerchair to, it's a wider chair so ideally someone plus size (as they're harder & more ££)
It's just been fully serviced by @sheff_mobility
If there's a lot of interest I'll do a draw!
Disabled people fought way too hard for wheelchair priority spaces on the bus to have stroller or buggy users think they are entitled to them over wheelchair users.
Hello @GMB@kategarraway@benshephard absolutely brilliant interview with @WheelieGoodLife this morning, you really covered how disgusting the situation is! Can you please get the Clip online so more people can see? Jennie has started a petition too! https://t.co/ykndRxLTWC
Please sign my petition for aisle chairs to be made mandatory on all U.K. flights. Let’s start here and then tackle the rest. Your support is really appreciated and I can’t thank you all enough ❤️ https://t.co/1U9DXEXrR5
Hey @Accor please can you contact me regarding my accessible room booking (£644) that was promised and has now been revoked as no rooms available and I’m told I’m not allowed to cancel. Even though it was your fault and I spent an hour on the phone booking it in the first place!!
COVID: A timeline
Feb 2020
Disabled people: COVID looks very serious and could possibly be a mass disabling event.
Mar 2020
Disabled people: If we don’t take COVID seriously, this will be a mass disabling event.
April 2020
Disabled people: This will be a mass disabling event.
Being a black content creator with a very visible disability is difficult and recently it's been getting to me.
I don't remember the last time my Instagram following went up at all and I wish I was being dramatic but I don't. It's like nobody is engaging with my content anymore