The government and our educational institutions have a responsibility to make sure that no child feels like I did ever again. For the past year, all I have been reading is how the United Kingdom is racist, how Brexit, Meghan Markle’s treatment…
Category: Disability
The Rollettes is a wheelchair dance team from Los Angeles, created to empower women with disabilities to live boundlessly, as well as shift perspectives on disability through dance. It was founded in 2012 when leader Chelsie Hill sustained a spinal cord injury…
Lina Abu Samha, a Jordanian writer, is the founder of Miryana’s World, named after her six-year-old daughter, who was born with cerebral palsy / spastic dipeliga that makes her depend on a walker and crutches/cane to be able to move around. …
Unfortunately we rarely see a positive image of disability in films and TV drama or even books, in fact it is the opposite scenario where if you become disabled then you will fall into depression, become bitter and become isolated….
The status of women varies from one society to another; however, everywhere disability poses additional challenges for women and this is doubled further if you happen to live in the MENA region. Arab Adults with disabilities (and especially women with…