Disability Pride Month Special Edition
Our Disability Pride Month Special Edition is here!🎉
And what an edition we have in store for you...
✨ Reflecting on what motivates us in our advocacy with our Spotlight Series Activists
✨ Bringing Disability Pride to Ireland - Article by trailblazer and founder of Disability Power Ireland, Maryam Madani.
✨ What does Disability Pride Mean To You? - Reader survey responses
✨ A very short news round up
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Ageing with Disability – Where Do Young Adults Go Once They Age Out of Children’s Services?
Call for Participation by Emma Ward for an Investigative Article
“Observation is Not Participation: Why Children’s Voices Must Lead Change”
Article by Aisling Byrne, Voices for Change Ireland
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Access Media Series: Accessing Production Spaces
The stories told in the media are shaped long before they reach an audience - in writers’ rooms, production offices, and editorial meetings. When disabled people are absent from these spaces, their perspectives are absent from the stories themselves.
This session looks at the practical realities of accessing production roles in Ireland as a disabled person: the barriers that exist across the industry, and the opportunities to break them down. We’ll hear from disabled writers, producers, and crew - the people working behind the camera and behind the scenes - about their experiences navigating these spaces, and what genuine inclusion in production looks like in practice.
Facilitated by broadcaster and science communicator Amy Hassett, the conversation will draw on a breadth of experience across different production environments to ask: what needs to change to make Irish media production more accessible, and what happens to the stories we tell when it does?
Date: 18th August
Time: 7pm-8pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
ISL Interpretation available
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July 21 – Session 1: Language and Ethical Storytelling. Contributors: Disabled Women Ireland and Disability Participation News Hub.
August 18 – Session 2: Accessing Production Spaces. Contributors include Amy Hassett, Naomi Kumar, Dorothy Laity, Ferdia MacAonghusa, and others to be confirmed.
September 15 – Session 3: Disabled Representation in Journalism. Contributors: Louise Bruton, Emma Ward, Christine O’Mahony, Dean Buckley, and Niamh Ní Hoireabhaird and Julie Helen
October 13 – Session 4: Disabled Representation in Film, TV and Media. Contributors: Sinéad Burke, Eleanor McSherry, Alannah Uí Geargáin, and others to be confirmed.
November 10 – Session 5: Misinformation and Disinformation in Media. Contributors: Neuropride Ireland and the Hope & Courage Collective.
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