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Housing Contains the Word Sing – Disability Housing. “Provoked to Madness by the Brutality of Wealth.”
Housing Contains the Word Sing – Interview with gobscure. Disability Housing. “Provoked to Madness by the Brutality of Wealth.” Over the next few months, we will be talking to Difference Northeast members and supporters to her their personal experience of housing as disabled people. You can read more about the disability housing crisis here The… Read more »
Disability Pride: Police and Activism – Activism and Disability – Disability and Policing.
This week, to round off Disability Pride Month, Difference’s Communications Coordinator talks about direct action in social justice movements, its surveillance, tightening rules around protest, and some implications for Disabled People. Community Organising In my time as a community organiser, I’ve coordinated a significant amount of direct action, most of which aimed at forcing powerful… Read more »
Beyond Lip Service: ‘Doing’ EDI by Sara Chezari
At Difference, being Disabled workshop leaders, trainers and educators we can face many highs and lows. Often, our own, intersecting experiences of the very subject we are talking about, can go unseen. So, how do we, as facilitators, navigate the world of equity, diversity and inclusion training? We touched on some of the strains of… Read more »
Beyond Lip Service: ‘The Snail and the Shell’ by Bea Groves-McDaniel
We are almost at the tail end of glut of training here at Difference. We have facilitated lots of learning over the past few months and have reflected on our learning because of that too. We’ve worked with local authorities, housing associations, NHS trusts, heritage sights, and cultural organisations. Most of the time, people want… Read more »
The Business of Interviews
In this blog, our Campaigns and Training Coordinator, Bea, shares her experience of our experimentally inclusive recruitment process. Accessibility is an ongoing journey and we’re always willing to try anything new to get it right for folks. Bea is developing our Disability Inclusion at Work training, which you can find more information on here. Inclusive… Read more »
Spring 2023 Newsletter
You can read our most recent newsletter here… Difference North East Hello, it’s been a wee while! Well, the warmth has returned with new life, and it feels just like that here at Difference… Go to this Sway
A Landscape for Everyone
Improving the experiences of Disabled visitors to the North Pennines. Ahead of an online training event we are facilitating with tourism businesses in the North Pennines Area of Natural Beauty (AONB), we chatted to Community Engagement officer, Scarlet Hall, about our hopes for the training and our experiences of visiting rural places as Disabled people…. Read more »
Our Campaigning Plan for January 2023- June 2024
We want to focus our campaigning work on 5 key priorities – campaigns where we can have an impact and in areas that are important to disabled people across our region. We want to make sure that our campaigns reflect what is most important to Disabled people in the North East. You can fill our… Read more »
Autism in the Workplace
This weeks blog is by Rachel Couch, from Atypical CIC who promote and advocate for people with hidden disabilities in the workplace. They run events and hire neuro-divergent project leaders to help promote their businesses and to give them a chance to expand their options. Atypical CIC aim to provide a safe and understanding support… Read more »
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