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Topics of the day:
1. All Aboard 2019 - Defiant Lives – a film about the disability rights
movement in Australia, United Kingdom and USA (2)
2. Fwd: Guide on Voting for Disabled People
3. New CCDS Conference Video: Prof. Tanya Titchkosky's "Strange Weather"
keynote from Disability & Disciplines 19
4. JLCDS 13.4
5. Scottish Disabled Staff Networks Meeting
6. workshop for early career researchers - coproduction in disability
research
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 11:03:30 +1100
Subject: All Aboard 2019 - Defiant Lives – a film about the disability rights movement in Australia, United Kingdom and USA
Hi Everybody,
I have again watched DEFIANT LIVES (link below) to be reminded and inspired that the discrimination that oppresses and segregates disabled people is ongoing and that we all as ordinary people can take action individually and collectively to make our lives and our societies a better place for people with disabilities now and into the future.
Please circulate widely.
Regards, Frank
Frank Hall-Bentick
Sent: Thursday, 5 December 2019 8:53 PM
Subject: All Aboard 2019 - Defiant Lives
Hi everyone,
I just finished watching the film Defiant Lives, written and directed by Australian film-maker Sarah Barton. It's a story of the history of disability rights, activism and advocacy in Australia, the US and the UK. It includes a great examination of public transport accessibility.
I have missed a number of opportunities to see the film over the last year or so, but finally got to see it last night. If you have not seen it, I urge you to do so. If you have seen it before, I highly recommend watching it again.
If you are one of those people who are featured, or even appear in the background of a shot, hats off to you. We have come long way in terms of accessibility and inclusion, in large part because of those people you will see in this film. The advocates of today are standing on the shoulders of giants. Many of them are no longer with us. Some of them may even be reading these words. Thank you to all of you.
Finally, thank you to Sarah for making this film.
Ray
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 08:00:43 +0000
Subject: Fwd: Guide on Voting for Disabled People
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Guide on Voting for Disabled People
Dear All,
fantastic *Guide on Voting for Disabled People*, which I’ve just seen
your local Disabled Staff Network and other relevant contacts – and please
use your right to vote!
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All voters have a right to vote independently and in secret and local
authorities in Great Britain have been told they must take proactive steps
to ensure that polling stations don't disadvantage disabled people.
If you have any problems on election day (Thursday 12th December), you
should call your local authority to try to resolve this. You can also call
the Electoral Commission on 0333 103 1928 or the Welsh language line on
0333 103 1929 for further guidance.
The role of the Electoral Commission (wording adapted from their website)
is to monitor elections and referendums to make sure they are fair and to
promote public confidence in the democratic process. Another part of their
role is to make sure that elections are accessible to everyone with them
stating ‘We believe that anyone eligible to vote should be able to do so’.
They have been working with charities such as Mencap and RNIB to ensure
this occurs. Further information about the Electoral Commission is
.
The BBC have a straightforward guide on their website explaining a bit more
news/uk-politics-49826655
The Electoral Commission have a factsheet for disabled voters (available on
councillors-and-democracy/elections/help-disabled-voters
).
It contains the following information:
- Local authorities now have to take proactive steps to ensure that
polling stations don't disadvantage disabled people.
- All voters have a right to vote independently and in secret. A person
who is registered to vote or who has been officially appointed as a proxy
voter cannot be refused a ballot paper or the opportunity to vote on the
grounds of mental or physical incapacity.
- Polling station staff must ensure that disabled voters are not offered
a lower standard of service than other voters and should be able to explain
what assistance is available to disabled voters wishing to vote in person
at a polling station.
Disabled voters are also entitled to:
- The right to request assistance to mark the ballot paper - Disabled
voters may request the assistance of the Presiding Officer to mark the
ballot paper for them. Alternatively, they can bring someone with them to
help them vote (this person must be an immediate family member over 18
years old or a qualified elector).
- Tactile voting device - This is a plastic device that is fixed onto
the ballot paper so visually impaired people or those with limited
dexterity can mark their ballot paper in secret.
- Large-print version of the ballot paper - A large-print version of the
ballot paper should be clearly displayed inside the polling station and a
copy can be given to voters to take with them into the polling booth. A
voter can’t vote on the large-print version, but it can be used for
reference.
- Assistance to electors unable to gain access to the polling station -
It is the responsibility of the relevant council to designate polling
places [decide the places where people can vote] within their area and to
keep these under review. In designating polling places, the council must
have regard to accessibility for disabled voters. If an elector is unable
to enter the polling station because of physical disability, the Presiding
Officer may take the ballot paper to the elector.
The information on the Gov.uk website states:
If you’re disabled, your local Electoral Registration Office can tell you
about:
- physical access, for example wheelchair ramps and disabled parking
spaces
- low-level polling booths
- equipment for voters with a visual impairment
The RNIB have been working with the government and the Electoral
Commission, as voting for blind and partially sighted people remains
unsatisfactory. RNIB have worked with the Electoral Commission to develop
new resources for election staff, including an update to their training
guides, a checklist of what should be in every polling station before it
opens, and also a training video.
accessible-information-campaign/voting-and-elections
Videos about accessible voting are on the gov.uk website and are being used
accessible-voting-for-all
The National Survivor User Network (NSUN) have done a useful article
entitled ‘What match is there between political parties’ election
manifestos and NSUN’s 2019 manifesto? A bird’s eye’. Details of this can be
match-between-party-political-manifestos-and-nsun-manifesto
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Many thanks.
Best wishes,
Hamied
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Huijg, D.D. (2019). "The vulnerable, the dependant and the scrounger:
intersectional reflections on disability, care, health and migration in the
Brexit Project". In: Moira Dustin, Nuno Ferreira & Susan Millns (Eds),
Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit (pp.93-123). London: Palgrave
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 12:10:03 +0000
Subject: New CCDS Conference Video: Prof. Tanya Titchkosky's "Strange Weather" keynote from Disability & Disciplines 19
New CCDS Conference Video! We are delighted to publish Prof. Tanya Titchkosky's (Uni of Toronto) keynote from Disability & Disciplines 19, "Strange Weather"
https://youtu.be/T8phZ9tpFms
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 12:21:57 +0000
Subject: JLCDS 13.4
Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies:
Volume 13, Issue 4
General Issue
JLCDS is available from Liverpool University Press, online and in print, to institutional and individual subscribers; it is also part of the Project MUSE collection to which the links below point.
Articles
Sexy Like Us: Expanding Notions of Disability and Sexuality Through Burlesque Performance
Teresa Milbrodt
Fantasies of Control: Intellectual Disability and Sexual Agency in the Second Wave
Rebecah Pulsifer
Medicine, Subjectivity, and the Representation of Disability in Una posibilidad entre mil
Elizabeth Jan Jones
A (Not So) Personal Matter: Understanding Disability in Kenzaburō Ōe's Early Novels
Liz Shek-Noble
Geographies of Disability in the Letters of Rimbaud: Mapping Colonialism and Disablement in Yemen and Ethiopia
Emily Jane O'Dell
The Gothic Grotesque: Disability, Deformity, and Monstrosity in Faulkner's Sanctuary
Sebastian A. Williams
Comment from the Field
Provocations in Critical Disability Studies, Interdisciplinary Centre of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield
Leah Burch
Book Reviews
Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness by Melanie Yergeau (review)
Maria Karmiris
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction by Sami Schalk (review)
David T. Mitchell
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 13:24:17 +0100
Subject: Re: All Aboard 2019 - Defiant Lives – a film about the disability rights movement in Australia, United Kingdom and USA
Hi Frank,
thanks a lot for the link!
I watched DEFIANT LIVES at a conference but wanted to show it to my
students so this is great.
Best,
Marianne
Am 06.12.2019 um 01:03 schrieb Frank Hall-Bentick:
> Hi Everybody,
>
> I have again watched DEFIANT LIVES (link below) to be reminded and
> inspired that the discrimination that oppresses and segregates disabled
> people is ongoing and that we all as ordinary people can take action
> individually and collectively to make our lives and our societies a
> better place for people with disabilities now and into the future.
>
> Please circulate widely.
>
> Regards, Frank
>
> Frank Hall-Bentick
>
> *Sent:* Thursday, 5 December 2019 8:53 PM
> *Subject:* All Aboard 2019 - Defiant Lives
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just finished watching the film Defiant Lives, written and directed by
> Australian film-maker Sarah Barton. It's a story of the history of
> disability rights, activism and advocacy in Australia, the US and the
> UK. It includes a great examination of public transport accessibility.
>
> I have missed a number of opportunities to see the film over the last
> year or so, but finally got to see it last night. If you have not seen
> it, I urge you to do so. If you have seen it before, I highly recommend
> watching it again.
>
> If you are one of those people who are featured, or even appear in the
> background of a shot, hats off to you. We have come long way in terms of
> accessibility and inclusion, in large part because of those people you
> will see in this film. The advocates of today are standing on the
> shoulders of giants. Many of them are no longer with us. Some of them
> may even be reading these words. Thank you to all of you.
>
> You can watch it or listen to it on ABC iView. Here is the link:
>
> Finally, thank you to Sarah for making this film.
>
> Ray
>
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 18:33:41 +0000
Subject: Scottish Disabled Staff Networks Meeting
The National Association of Disabled Staff Networks NADSN
https://nadsn-uk.org/ in the UK is hosting a meeting for Scottish based networks in universities and colleges on 22nd January 2020, 1.00-2.00pm via Zoom web conferencing. If you are a disabled academic or disabled professional services staff in Scotland please join us.
This meeting brings together staff from various Disabled Staff Networks in universities and colleges in Scotland to exchange ideas and discuss activities, aimed at providing support and networking around common issues affecting disabled staff working at HEI's in Scotland.
Facilitated by Jacqueline Nicholson (Aberdeen) and Fiona Kumari Campbell (Dundee), Scotland Co-Leads, National Association of Disabled Staff Networks.
Zoom link:
Professor Fiona A Kumari Campbell
Professor of Disability & Ableism Studies
PhD QUT; BLegSt (Hons) La Trobe; AdvDipTheol Univ Div; JP (Qual); FRSA.
*Chair, Disabled Staff Network*
*Co Lead, Peripheries Scholarship & Research Theme, ESW*
School of Education & Social Work, University of Dundee,
Perth Road, Dundee, DD14HN. SCOTLAND, United Kingdom
Adjunct Professor in Disability Studies, Department of Disability Studies, Faculty of Medicine
University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Fellowship of the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce).
The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096
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Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2019 18:36:10 +0000
Subject: workshop for early career researchers - coproduction in disability research
Hi all
We are organising a one-day workshop for early career researchers on coproduction in disability research, at Cardiff University on Friday 31st January.
Please share!
Many thanks
Jody
Dr Jody Mellor
DRILL Research Officer
Disability Wales
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