“Some people with learning disabilities don’t understand about money”, proclaims Conservative parliamentary candidate Sally Ann Heart. Therefore, she says, we should pay disabled people less...
There’s nothing quite like the passion with which a 16 year old can hold a belief. It is pure, it is unadulterated and it is uncompromising. And often, despite the way teenagers are accused of...
Recent research has found that business leaders are wary of hiring disabled people in senior roles. In a display of blatant disablism, the most prevalent reason for not hiring disabled people include...
I rarely feel as scrutinised as when I park in an accessible parking spot and get out of my car. People all around stare to judge whether or not I am deserving of the space. When I get my crutch out...
Do Indigenous women’s lives matter in America? The horrific treatment of a Native American woman who was raped while in a persistent vegetative* state suggests not, especially when they are also...
It’s a weird thing, when somebody grabs you unexpectedly and insists that they are helping. It is intrusive and invasive, and yet visibly disabled people experience this on a regular basis from...
I’ve recently got very into eating yoghurt. It’s fruity and fresh and tasty and I can’t believe I didn’t eat any for years, but they were so associated with diet culture that I couldn’t...
Whether it’s David Attenborough’s Blue Planet II or reports of “islands” of plastic waste in the ocean that are bigger than Mexico, the problem of excess plastic is – rightly – becoming...
A 10-month-old boy is expected to die today, after his parents lost a court battle to keep him alive. Doctors and specialists at the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital for children...
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, 19 men and women were stabbed to death, and 25 others wounded, in the Tsukui Yamayuri-En centre for disabled people in Sagamihara near Tokyo, Japan. The...