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.
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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.
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.
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.
Think of yourself as a cup.
Disability justice needs more than lobbying, it needs a revolution.
I see the constellation of accommodations that filled our home. What I once viewed as limitations, I now recognise as evidence of profound love.
The cultural shift begins by observing inequality as a societal and attitudinal phenomenon that has nothing to do with how a disabled person’s body differs from an abled person’s body.
“The choice shouldn’t be between education and not being able to come to a tutorial because you can’t enter the bloody building.”
From the high points and flaws of virtue ethics to utilitarianism, disability ethics is not a one-size-fits-all.
