Editorial Hello! Welcome to the 2025 edition of Disabled Honi! Our front cover by Dana Kafina (@biteapearl) is an artwork…
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Khanh Tran is one of the lucky few who truly spent their life doing what they loved — fighting for the often-overlooked communities they held close to their heart, in whatever small ways they could. But their contributions and their impact are far from small. Out of Khanh’s breadth of accomplishments as a disabilities activist, the Room is perhaps their greatest legacy.
I can assure you that the slight inconvenience (or even embarrassment) of wearing a mask is much better than the inconvenience of becoming disabled with Long COVID.
So much of medical misogyny is perpetrated by individual interactions with doctors and other medical professionals, and compounded by how our society fails to aptly grapple with gendered pain.
On Tuesday 11th March, the University of Sydney’s Poche Centre and Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP) welcomed Dr John T. Ward during the official Australian launch of his new book Indigenous Disability Studies.
As Australia competes globally for international talent, creating a more welcoming environment for people with disabilities would not only fulfill human rights obligations, but also enrich campus communities and attract diverse perspectives currently lost to discriminatory policies.
Accessibility isn’t a ramp tacked onto a broken staircase. It must be the foundation. That means funding disability-led research. That means rewriting disaster protocols with disabled people at the drafting table. That means treating accessibility not as a favour, but as a right.
Less fortunate are those of us with self-managed chronic conditions or disabilities which flare up unexpectedly — where consequences are infrequently serious enough to warrant going to the doctor, but serious enough that they may well cause you to miss an exam.
Think of yourself as a cup.
It would raise more challenges if I required a wheelchair, but I know it would still be a privilege to experience living.
