Recently, there has been a greater push to have disability visible in the media and represented across the board in politics, entertainment, and the workplace. This is fantastic and we applaud this, but the types of disability we see in these spaces are usually the...
Imagine you’ve had a fully functioning body for 35+ years and then one day, something doesn’t feel right. You lose sensation on one side; your vision blurs and you feel dizzy. It must be a pinched nerve, you assume. After a while, your body goes back to its normal...
With NAIDOC week being celebrated on 3-10 July, this month, we’re taking a look at disability in Australia’s Indigenous communities. Disability affects the Indigenous population at almost two times the rate it does non-Indigenous Australians. This often comes with a...
Everybody needs an outlet sometimes and while it’s often considered more socially acceptable for women to speak about their feelings and struggles, men don’t always feel the same freedom. In light of Men’s Health Week, we’re focusing on men’s matters and the...
Children living with disabilities, whether mental or physical, are starting out in life with a few extra challenges. Not only because of their disability but also because of the stigma and stereotypes they are likely to experience throughout their life. As a parent of...
As humans, it’s in our nature to fear the unknown, the unfamiliar, the different. If you go back to primitive times, that’s how we survived – by approaching anything we didn’t understand with caution. We no longer live in primitive times now, but that tendency has...
