HIRING
In exciting news, I’m hiring for an executive and creative assistant. As a disabled artist and policy expert, I need assistance with a lot of tasks – whether cognitive (e.g. tracking tasks) or practical (e.g. extended typing). I am now...
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Experimental! An online writing retreat for D/deaf and disabled writers
For a little while now, I have been asking on Twitter for recommendations of D/deaf and disabled writers and I am now delighted to announce why! Experimental! is an online writing retreat for D/deaf and disabled writers currently living in...
Adaptive Android
I recently gave a talk on adaptive tech for Android and Windows for DMD Pathfinders, a user-led organisation by and for people with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. While I don’t have Duchenne myself, I use a lot of adaptive tech –...
COVID-19 – is online more accessible?
Is the lockdown really more accessible for disabled people, or is it just differently accessible? I’ve read a lot of disabled people talking about how with the lockdown there are no access barriers, but I’ve also been thinking for a...
COVID-19, disabled people, and the right to LIVE (independently)
COVID-19, disabled people, and the right to LIVE (independently) Coronavirus is ripping through care homes. It is killing thousands of people who are trapped in these institutions, often with no choice or control as to who provides their ‘care’, no...
Disabled People Are Not Expendable (yet we’re being left to die)
The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has released its guidelines for critical care in Coronavirus. NICE is widely respected, and its evidence-based guidelines often take years to develop, with wrangling backwards and forwards between medication companies, researchers, journal articles...