Disabled people campaigning for rights - for access, benefits, services and equality; against discrimination, cuts, prejudice and pity!
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Teacing union NASUWT hosts an online workshop for Disability History Month, with two 45-minute sessions on:
Disability History and Ableism - run by Kat Downs
An Introduction to Neurodiversity - run by Janine Booth
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This was the first full meeting of the committee elected in March. It elected Dave Allan as chair (a formality as he is the disabled workers’ representative on the TUC General Council); and Annie Galpin as co-chair.
Implementing Disabled Workers’ Conference decisions
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Janine will speak as part of a panel on Realising Disability Equality, specifically about links to the Labour Party and to DPOs (Disabled People’s Organisations) such as DPAC (Disabled People Against the Cuts), Inclusion London and ROFA (Reclaiming our Futures Alliance).
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More details to follow.
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This year's Disability History Month has two themes: sex and relationships, and hidden impairments.
Janine will be one of a panel of speakers.
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Thinking about practical humanistic models for supporting autistic people in distress, time for a paradigm shift?
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Published in RMT News, July/August 2021
RMT members have helped to win justice for Osime Brown, a young, black, autistic, learning-disabled man. The union saw this as an issue that deserved our support and solidarity. Janine Booth, Secretary of RMT’s Disabled Members’ Advisory Committee, explains why.
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A ten-minute video explaining the social model of disability.
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Janine Booth reviews ‘The Reason I Jump’
I don’t watch many documentaries about autism, and on the rare occasion when I sit down to watch one, I am overwhelmed with a sense of dread. So much rubbish is said on the subject, even by people who want to be on the right side. So many patronising tropes, so much pity, not enough solidarity.
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(and why I prefer to think of it like this rather than as IFL vs PFL)
