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Fairness, fights and furrows: what's next for the disability movement?
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Episode 1
In our maiden podcast, Steph Cutler and Phil Friend OBE reflect on the civil rights movement for disabled people and chat how challenges have changed, from invalid tricycles to social media spats, and ask what’s next for the movement, if indeed there still is one? We then hand over to Harry Baker who poetically summarises the conversation.
Show Notes & Quotes
3.12 “There was no such thing as disability inclusion.”
5:21 “The disability movement back in the 80s was as sexist as the non-disabled movement”
6:31 “It took 13 attempts to get disability legislation through the house of commons”
11:10 "We live in a world where communication is all around us but it's telling us not to say anything”
15:55 “The social model of disability doesn’t work quite so well then”
19:26 “Black lives matter is an amazing catalyst”
23:21 “White men in wheelchairs were the supreme beings”
27:03 “For many people in our club they don’t want to belong”
31:07 Poet Harry Bakers creative response
The Guests
Phil Friend OBE
Phil Friend is a wheelchair user and has been involved in disability employment and customer service issues since 1986. After an extremely successful career in the public sector; he founded Phil & Friends Ltd to promote the issue of disability within the business community. At grass roots level, he is very active within voluntary organisations that deal with disability issues and was awarded an OBE in 2001 and an honorary doctorate in 2009, both for service to disability and equal opportunities.
Podcasts: The Way We Roll and Gear Gadgets and Gizmos
Book: Why are you pretending to be normal?
Harry Baker
World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker published his debut anthology ‘The Sunshine Kid’ with Burning Eye in December 2014. The subsequent show of the same name was voted ‘Best Spoken Word show’ of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015. His work has been shared on TED.com and viewed millions of times worldwide, as well as being translated into 21 different languages.
Podcast: Something Borrowed
www.Instagram.com/harrybakerpoet
www.twitter.com/harrybakerpoet.
The Host
Steph Cutler is a speaker, trainer and coach. Her inclusion consultancy, Making Lemonade specialises in disability equality and she is a Clore Social Leadership fellow. She was recognised as one of the 100 most influential disabled people in the UK in 2018 on the Disability Power100 list and has been a judge since.
Twitter: @Steph_Cutler
LinkedIn: Steph Cutler
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