Do the DWP think I just need to pop on a nappy and get back to work? I start off my ramblings by saying these are my experiences, they won’t represent everyone. I can’t and won’t speak for every person who has experienced issues similar to my own. Further, I write like I speak… Read more »
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Locked Down Again – When a café up the road opened, I hoped for a social lifeline, somewhere to meet work colleagues and friends. The reality of visiting the Café, though, left me with a sense of alienation and rejection.
17 October 2023When a café up the road opened, I hoped for a social lifeline, somewhere to meet work colleagues and friends. The reality of visiting the Café, though, left me with a sense of alienation and rejection. Earlier this year a new café opened near where I live with a hipster-type vibe, with a 10pm licence,… Read more »
Disabled People’s Manifesto
26 September 2023DPO Forum England, the collective voice of Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations in England, has published the Disabled Peoples Manifesto. The manifesto highlights a list of asks of the next UK government. You can find a link to the full manifesto at the end of this article. The DPO Forum is made up of Deaf… Read more »
What skills do Disabled People have?
20 September 2023Disabled Researcher, Abby Moses, is looking for participants for her study at Durham University. You can download an Easy Read version here: Disabled People’s skills study- Easy Read Hi, my name is Abby, and I am a Disabled researcher doing a study on what skills Disabled People have. When I first started using a walking… Read more »
Autumn Newsletter 2023
11 September 2023Read our latest newsletter below, or online here.
Housing Contains the Word Sing – Disability Housing. “Provoked to Madness by the Brutality of Wealth.”
15 August 2023Housing 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.
1 August 2023This 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
10 July 2023At 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
10 July 2023We 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 Disability Housing Crisis
14 June 2023The Disability Housing Crisis. For the last few decades, various decisions from government has potentially hard baked an increasingly worse disability housing crisis into England’s homes. Even without considering disability, there is a housing crisis in the UK. Landlords are putting up rents, more people cannot afford to buy house buying, and former social housing… Read more »
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