What do you think of when you think of disability? Someone in a wheelchair? Someone who is blind and has a cane? Whatever they look like, their impairment means life can be harder for them. The fact ...

A woman walking past a man in a wheelchair, who is at the base of a staircase. Source: Viacheslav Yakobchuk / Adobe Stock In 1904, H. G. Wells published a short story titled, “The Country of the Blind ...

Findlay, Resistance Books, £8 FOR many decades, Bob Williams-Findlay has been a leading activist within disabled people’s movements.Last year, Pluto published his book Disability Praxis, a work of ...

On Monday, I went to see my counselor at the local arthritis centre, and we shot the breeze. I really love our conversations, because he's a very frank, straight-forward kind of guy. I never get that ...

I don't believe wholeheartedly in the Social Model of Disability. Or rather, I don't think it's the only answer. There, I said it. I believe that for a lot of disabled folk, the only thing that makes ...

In a society that disables people through barriers rather than their impairments, we must not only shift our framework to the social model of disability but ensure that it encompasses mental health. I ...

We live in a world shaped by the stories we tell — about ourselves, about others, and about what it means to live a good life. But when society tells only one story about disability — that it is a ...