Tag: disability
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Raising the Flag for Disability Pride 2025
I spoke at Inner West Council’s Inclusion Festival, where we raised the flag for Disability Pride. The flag has a black background – for both mourning and resistance.. Green is for sensory disability Blue is for mental illness. White represents invisible and undiagnosed disability. Gold is for Neurodiversity. Red Is for physical disability. Thanks to…
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Vulnerable or Resilient? It’s all in how you talk about it
The language we use frames our thoughts and is shaped by them. Using different words to describe the same thing can urge us to consider it very differently. “Vulnerable” is a dangerous word when it is used, to create a category of people.
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What if everyone had to live in households of no less than 3?
Who do you live with? Is it your choice? What if the government said that, to solve the housing crisis, everyone had to live in households of no less than three?
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The rental crisis brings group-home style living to tenants in 2024
Affordable housing is on offer that pushes non-disabled people to experience some of the same dynamics as group-homes.
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7 useful tips for job seekers that I learned as a Recruiter
Over my “working” life, I’ve accumulated an astounding amount of experience as a job seeker. As a person with a disability, finding work has always been challenging – even more so when I stopped negotiating the world on crutches and started using a wheelchair. I’ve had long .and frustrating periods of un- and underemployment. When…
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Circumventing NSW Trains (A poem)
Travel gets complicated when the trains are out and you’re a power wheelchair user – but it inspired a poem.
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Where are we headed under a “new, values-based capitalism”?
When “well-being” got a mention in the October 2022 budget, I felt a bit more hopeful ..The treasurer says he wants to build “a new, values-based capitalism” to better address disadvantage and help make communities more resilient. The idea of a “new, values-based capitalism” perplexes me.
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An open invitation to embrace Disability Pride (whether you’re disabled or not)
On Saturday April 9th, I attended my first ever Disability Pride Fest, in Newtown NSW. Wow! It was huge. It’s taken me a while to process my thoughts about it. As Disability Pride month closes, it seems like a good time to pull some thoughts together from the Pride Fest and from Disability Pride Month,…
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Why Australia’s unemployment rate will get stuck on the way down (& how to grease the track)
Australia is experiencing a job’s boom – or so we’re told. The official unemployment rate is lower than it’s been in years. That’s good, right? The trouble is, the government is only telling the parts of the story that make them look good as we hurtle towards the next federal election. There’s some sleight of…
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7 lessons for living that mountaineering and physical disability have in common (& can help you face your challenges)
What do mountaineers and disabled people have in common? Yes, you did read that right and, no, it’s not a riddle. The answers could equip you to deal with your own life challenges. Mountaineers and disabled people live life differently to most – one group by the roll of the dice, the other by choice..…
Rolling Through 