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.
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“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.
Student representatives wrangled over access for low SES students, police brutality, mental health provisions and a campaign against deadnaming amid the SRC’s famously colourful election season.
Disability is often relegated to “second-class” status in student activism. More effort, listening and discernment is needed from other activists to build a genuinely inclusive student movement.
The additional places will be reserved to improve enrolment rates of First Nations, low SES, disabled, regional and other disadvantaged students.
The first Board meeting chaired by President Cole Scott-Curwood saw the USU swimming in money (again) while updating on a number of important initiatives.
The portfolio will be filled by the incoming 2022 SULS executive.
How, and why, the Disability Justice Network envisions collective liberation.
The placard asked ‘Are disabled people a burden on society?’ and was placed next to ‘yes’ and ‘no’ jars.
