Victor Loux Bookmarks Tag: disability_culture

9 bookmarks tagged “disability_culture

Block Telethon 1992 — the day we ‘pissed on pity’ | by Georgia | Medium

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The Telethon was a 24-hour charity broadcast which raised money for disabled people — and patronised them in the process. The campaign to rid TV screens of ITV’s Telethon began in early summer 1990…

How becoming a Covid long-hauler made me rethink disability | The Spinoff

thespinoff.co.nz/society/16-09-2020/how-becoming-a-covid-long-hauler-made-me-rethink-disability/
Despite having lived with a disability her whole life, it took becoming one of the unlucky few who experience symptoms long after they should have 'recovered' from Covid-19 that forced Áine Kelly-Costello to reckon with a different kind of disability experience. I was born with a congenital conditi