Friday DS Link Round Up!
Happy Friday every body!
- The Attitude Foundation has been established to develop and promote media content to shape a new understanding of disability throughout Australia.
- Toys Like Me are also seeking to change the way we represent disability in young children’s playthings.
- Stella’s Challenge, inspired by the late Stella Young, is a new national campaign designed to change social attitudes towards people living with disabilities.
- This week is Schizophrenia Awareness week – and one writer wants you to know that its nothing to fear.
- The town of Selby in North Yorkshire has just elected the UK’s first mayor with learning disabilities.
- “If only one ramp on one beach for one day can make a difference, imagine what an access-friendly India could feel like.”
- The Hallmark Disability Research Initiative presents a free one-hour lecture covering the current disability discrimination law for European and Australian jurisdictions.
- Check out the Victorian Writer’s profile of disability and queer activist, Jacki Jax Brown.