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Friday briefing: How disabled creators are challenging an ableist world
In today’s newsletter: Amid protests, policy battles and rising hostility, disabled designers and artists show how pleasure, creativity and visibility defy stigma Good morning. Among a display of slogan T-shirts in the V&A Dundee’s Design and Disability exhibition, the first that meets your eye reads “Access is love”. Then, lest you presume you’re in for an easy ride, the next one declares “Piss on pity”. That one’s a reference to the 1990 Block Telethon campaign, a pivotal moment when hundreds of disability activists gathered outside ITV studios in London during a live fundraising broadcast and noisily protested their portrayal as tragic victims and plucky heroes deserving of a charitable pat on the head from the public. UK politics | Regional mayors are to be given a leading role in the UK’s economic policy, Andy Burnham has said , as he called the opening of No 10 North “the big
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In today’s newsletter: Amid protests, policy battles and rising hostility, disabled designers and artists show how pleasure, creativity and visibility defy stigma Good morning. Among a display of slogan T-shirts in the V&A Dundee’s Design and Disability exhibition, the first that meets your eye reads “Access is love”. Then, lest you presume you’re in for an easy ride, the next one declares “Piss on pity”. That one’s a reference to the 1990 Block Telethon campaign, a pivotal moment when hundreds of disability activists gathered outside ITV studios in London during a live fundraising broadcast and noisily protested their portrayal as tragic victims and plucky heroes deserving of a charitable pat on the head from the public. UK politics | Regional mayors are to be given a leading role in the UK’s economic policy, Andy Burnham has said , as he called the opening of No 10 North “the big
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According to The Guardian’s linked report, Friday briefing: How disabled creators are challenging an ableist world, In today’s newsletter: Amid protests, policy battles and rising hostility, disabled designers and artists show how pleasure, creativity and visibility defy stigma Good morning. Among a display of slogan T-shirts in the V&A Dundee’s Design and Disability exhibition, the first that meets your eye reads “Access is love”. Then, lest you presume you’re in for an easy ride, the next one declares “Piss on pity”. That one’s a reference to the 1990 Block Telethon campaign, a pivotal moment when hundreds of disability activists gathered outside ITV studios in London during a live fundraising broadcast and noisily protested their portrayal as tragic victims and plucky heroes deserving of a charitable pat on the head from the public. UK politics | Regional mayors are to be given a leading role in the UK’s economic policy, Andy Burnham has said , as he called the opening of No 10 North “the big
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