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Kwame Anthony Appiah Reith lecture on Creed
I found this lecture on Creed extremely thought provoking. I think I have also made a conscious effort to learn some of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s skills at presenting, how they cross between topics, intersectionality, humour and intense topics is very impressive. Where I think this lecture resonated with me most, is the ability to not…
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what Yasmin Gunaratnam calls ‘total pain’
In reading ‘Deaf-accessibility for spoonies: lessons from touring Eve and Mary Are Having Coffee while chronically ill’ I was able to partly relate to the invisibility of experience chronic pain and fatigue, being diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrom/Myalgicencephalitis over 10 years ago. I also can relate to experience a mixed response from medical professionals who due to…
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UAL’s Disability Services
Learning about the social model of disability as opposed to the medical model has encouraged me to consider my entire involvement with UAL, including my studying, teaching and student experience role. I feel that more work needs to be done to communicate that if anything is not accessible, it is an issue with that actual…
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SoN Disability ToR
This Shades of Noir ToR is a huge learning resource. I found the glossary and terms reference pages extremely useful and interesting. I am interested to carry on reading it and will return to my blog to post more. For now, I wanted to look at the terms which have been reclaimed by the ‘New’…
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#DisabilityTooWhite article/interview with Vilissa Thompson
This interview was great to read and discuss with my housemates. In the end we turned the TV off and instead decided to read the article together and discuss what it contained. We all had not previously considered several of the intersectional issues and the white-washing which exists in the disabled communities, as well as…
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Christine Sun Kim – 10min
A Selby Film Watching this video piece by artist Christine Sun Kim has made me reflect on 3 key points: I was first first reminded of a workshop I participated in as a student with a Visiting Practitioner from the RCA. He brought with him a sound recorder as Sun Kim as used by the…
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