Musician and writer, Heidi Everett, shares her experiences of psychotropic medications and hospital admission.
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Category: Blog (page 8)
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Supporting our support workers
Interacting with people when a person has COVID-19 may become unavoidable if there’s no alternative arrangements. For many people with disability, isolation is not an option, writes Claudia Forsberg.
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Welcome to my world
There is an aversion of gaze, amongst even the most socially aware able-bodied journalists, concerning the discrimination people with disability live with every day writes Kate Hood.
When the government asked people to wear masks
As a proud member of the deaf community, Charbel Zada shares his frustration with some government policies that negatively impact people with disability.
5 isolation challenges of a COVID-19 high-risker
As someone at high-risk of dying from the virus (aka ‘high-risker’), I’m over here fighting for my rights to information, healthcare, supplies and to have a say, writes Carlie Park.
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We are not disposable
For many people with disability, hospitals are already traumatic places where we are spoken over, invalidated and dehumanised, writes Vanamali Hermans.