News — Anti discrimation
'No time for fairies'
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Actor and circus performer Emma J Hawkins said casting is a still a serious issue for performers with disability.
Last year, Hawkins appeared in the Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man at Melbourne's Malthouse Theatre.
Who has the right to tell stories?
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The Adventures Of The Boy Who Was Told He’d Never Speak
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For Year 7, I started at a little school in the NSW outback with an enrolment of 150 students from K-12. At first, there were no problems, then things started to go wrong, writes William McIntosh.
Content note: Descriptions of bullying, ableism and a mention of suicide.
Invisible Disability Stigma is Driving Workers to Hide Conditions
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Being an ally to people with disabilities
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Do you even know what it is — beyond the obvious use of two or three well-known insults?
Across the board, I believe ableism is often the forgotten prejudice. The one so well absorbed into society's structures that many people don't even notice it's there.