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disability
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Actionplay To Present A New Musical THE SURFACE
Read more: Actionplay To Present A New Musical THE SURFACEActionplay, a theatre company dedicated to providing autistic, neurodivergent, and disabled teens and young adults equal access to the theatre-making process, is pleased to announce their next production, the new musical comedy The Surface (or, That One Time Atlantis Washed…
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Ice Bucket Challenge
Read more: Ice Bucket ChallengeThe Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, was an activity involving the pouring of a bucket of ice water over a person’s head, either by another person or self-administered, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic…
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CRIPPING CHOREOGRAPHY
Read more: CRIPPING CHOREOGRAPHY“Rainer’s early choreography celebrated, among other things, ordinary movements: the expressive capacities of kneeling, of shaking your head, of rolling on the floor. And when she went through periods of sickness, those movements became an even more important part of…
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Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to him
Read more: Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to himA deaf man was moved to tears after learning that his neighbourhood had learned sign language just for him to promote the heartwarming message: ‘A world without barriers is our dream’. Muharrem was unwittingly placed at the centre of an…
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Love Has No Labels: Rethink Bias
Read more: Love Has No Labels: Rethink BiasR/GA AND THE AD COUNCIL CREATE “LOVE HAS NO LABELS” CAMPAIGN by IPG R/GA and the Ad Council, along with several top global brands, have launched “Love Has No Labels,” a public service campaign aimed at promoting diversity, inclusion and…
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When I Walk
Read more: When I WalkIn 2006, 25-year-old Jason DaSilva was on vacation at the beach with family when, suddenly, he fell down. He couldn’t get back up. His legs had stopped working; his disease could no longer be ignored. Just a few months earlier…
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Fabled Asp
Read more: Fabled AspFabled Asp is a multimedia online archive that documents forty years of activist history and creativity. Disabled lesbian activism is a radical assertion of self in the face of societal stigma and marginalization. The project illuminates the myriad ways disabled…
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Abler
Read more: AblerSara Hendren is an Enabler. Hendren’s writing, research, and “knowledge-building” propels conversations of ability and disability in such a way that activates a creative dialogue as well as provides a scholarly basis for cultural critique. “Sara Hendren is an artist,…