Breaking News! I’m excited to announce the launch of a new disability cooperative, called the Purple Collective! The Purple Collective is a groundbreaking community platform designed to empower activists in the disability space. The mission? To connect passionate individuals with impactful campaigns, helping drive positive change through small, manageable actions that make a big difference…. Continue Reading
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Sir Bert Massie – A life without limits
Over the years I’ve totally geeked out on both disability rights and civil rights. There’s nothing better than a leader building a movement, defying the odds, and beating Goliath. A big reason for me wanting to learn about this subject, is to inform my disability activism today. “We have to understand the past to shape… Continue Reading
Polish Project: Dignity and Equality
If you are in a hurry, please click on the fundraising page and donate just£10. Do you remember my Epic European Disability Roadtrip last year? In October I travelled in my Motability car to my grandfathers homeland of Lithuania, down to Prague, back to the UK, and everywhere inbetween. I overcame personal barriers, met disabled… 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
Instagram #accessdenied Campaign
Further to my ‘need for a new approach’ blog posts, I wanted to spell out my latest ‘creative activism’ campaign. Simply using Instagram on your mobile, take a good picture (with or without you in view – or even one of each) of an inaccessible place, add some cool effects and tweet it with the… Continue Reading
New Goals and New Experiences
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls… Continue Reading
Lets push things forward
Since my last blog I carried out training in Bristol, drove back to mums, blew out my candles, hit St.Ives town (slept Friday night), then visited my grandparents and aunty, picked my mum up from her work reunion and met many people I knew from yrs gone by there, had dinner in the Turkish restaurant… Continue Reading