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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

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Report: For As Long As the DWP Has Been Killing People, Disabled Activists Have Been Fighting Back

by China Mills

Welfare reform is fatal. Disabled people have been telling us this for years. For researcher China Mills, what started as an investigation into welfare deaths, developed into a timeline of resistance.

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Opinion: To Solve Britain’s Mental Health Crisis, We Must Fundamentally Change Society

by Mark Brown

Progressives still wishfully think that upping budgets will solve the problem. We need to think much, much bigger, writes mental health journalist Mark Brown.

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Analysis: Autism Is Not a Disease

by Jodie Hare

Why is it still acceptable to treat autistic people as defective, forcing them to bend to society rather than changing society to be more inclusive? With misinformation rife, it’s time neurotypicals start making an effort, writes Jodie Hare.

Opinion: Deaf People Are Paying Thousands to Learn Their Own Language

by Liam O'Dell

It’s 2021 and the UK still has no sign language GCSE. Deaf journalist Liam O'Dell asks: could the Tories care less about us?

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Opinion: Sex Worker Rights Are Disability Rights

by Sophie K Rosa

Tired debates about disability and sex work too often focus on the morality of a disabled man buying sex. Why aren’t we talking about disabled sex workers? Sophie K Rosa reports.

Downstream: 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 […]