For As Long As the DWP Has Been Killing People, Disabled Activists Have Been Fighting Back
China Mills
From ‘sectioning’ the DWP to quietly submitting endless FOI requests, disabled people have sustained a decade of resistance.
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Disability: It's Political
Disability isn’t a personal tragedy, it’s a political issue. From helping us imagine an anticapitalist future to exposing our interdependence in the present, this focus is a primer on the disability politics the left usually ignores.
Disability: It's Political
Disability isn’t a personal tragedy, it’s a political issue. From helping us imagine an anticapitalist future to exposing our interdependence in the present, this focus is a primer on the disability politics the left usually ignores.
To Solve Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, We Must Fundamentally Change Society
Mark Brown
Just asking for a little more treatment here, a little less hatred there won’t cut it.
Autism Is Not a Disease
Jodie Hare
Stop trying to 'cure' us and learn to understand us.
Deaf People Are Paying Thousands to Learn Their Own Language
Liam O'Dell
British sign language is being decimated by Tory neglect.
Sex Worker Rights Are Disability Rights
Sophie K Rosa
There's a reason so many sex workers are disabled: the industry is far more accessible than most others.
Why Are All the Baddies Disabled?
From ancient myths through to the Batman trilogy, pop culture is littered with disabled people and those with facial differences being cast as villains. Why does disability feature so heavily in literary and cinematic traditions, and how has this hypervisiblity had the ironic effect of erasing the experiences of disabled people? Ash Sarkar is joined […]
Disabled People Don’t Want the Right to Die – We Want the Right to Live
Penny Pepper
Society already happily assists our dying.
Britain’s Inhumane Benefits System Is Giving People PTSD
Jay Watts
Smile, you’re on universal credit.
The Capitalist War Being Waged on Disabled People
Ellen Clifford speaks to Michael Walker about her book “The War on Disabled People: Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of Human Catastrophe”, including an explanation of the Social Model of Disability, the history of the Disabled People’s Movement, and the disastrous consequences of austerity policies.
Yes, Mental Health Counts As Disability
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Just as our society is constructed around people whose ‘physical’ bodies work a certain way, it is also built to centre people who think, feel and act a certain way.
So What’s the Problem With Peter Singer?
Lucy Burke
Discrimination is quite literally killing disabled people, now more than ever.
Our Toxic Work Culture Isn’t Just Harming Disabled People – It’s Harming Everyone
Sophie K Rosa
We should be fighting for liberation from work, not just access to it.
Disability Politics Are Anticapitalist Politics
Ellen Clifford
The social model exposes the brutal way capital treats people who can't be exploited for profit.