Welcome to my first blog of 2013! With the turkey digested, the new year hangover behind me and a much needed rest executed; it’s time to get back to changing the world! I won’t repeat my reflection of 2012 or my 2013 hopes and aims. You can check them out in my last post. The… Continue Reading
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2012: Struggles, Achievements and New Plans
This time last year I was celebrating going solo with my social business, a visit to New York and making big plans for 2012. It is fair to say this year went far better than I could have ever dreamt! In this post I’ve summarised each months highlights, before sharing some general thoughts and my… Continue Reading
Ability – don’t dis it, but own it
If you are disabled, have a relationship to someone who is, work in this world or maybe just read my blog; you get the base issues faced. When writing on the subject of disability, you can’t be everything to everyone. Despite having an impairment, people are still people. A medical condition will vary making life’s… Continue Reading
A Simply Social Strategy
Three and a bit years ago I was lucky enough, or maybe destined, to meet AJ and Melissa Leon of Misfit-Inc. They spoke about social media at the Institute of Fundraising convention. I was working my way up in fundraising at Scope and finding my way generally post uni. Their strategy was simple and yet… Continue Reading
Launching dConference 2012
As you well know, I’ve been working hard on the Epic European Disability Roadtrip, which saw me travel through Europe for three weeks, experiencing how disability is viewed by other cultures and talking to disability groups, all to raise awareness of disability issues faced in other countries. However, this isn’t my only project I’ve been… Continue Reading
John Lennon: Imagine (the disability version)
Whilst on my Epic European trip I saw a lot of things that ‘disabled’ myself and many other people living in 2012. I also listened to a lot of music, considered theoretically simple solutions and wrote some poetry. The solutions will be proposed in my imminent report and the poetry remains personal; however I have… Continue Reading
Epic European Disability Roadtrip: Never give up
This post follows weeks of hard graft regarding my Epic European Disability Roadtrip (mentioned in July). In the next few minutes I will outline my biggest (some say craziest) project ever and hope to motivate you to become a part of this very cool initiative. My goal To inspire, inform and change the world on… Continue Reading
The Need for a New Approach: Creative Activism
In my last post I shared some history about the disability movement, questioned why disabled people are still marginalised in 2012, and explored language as a possible bridging tool in the search for equality. In general I see myself as an individual who happens to have a disability. I set myself personal goals, define the… Continue Reading