Leeds University student, Catherine Reader is set to launch a website entitled “Disability: Depression” on 1st November. This campaign to help eliminate the struggles that face people with chronic mental health disorders. The website will […]
Talking Disability and Student Life
University life can be difficult, but it proves to be even more challenging for students with disabilities. Aino Lappalainen interviews two disabled students to get a glimpse of their experiences and struggles. Having a disability […]
Does A Scar Make A Villain? How #IAmNotYourVillain Is Changing The Face Of Film
Changing Faces, the UK’s leading charity helping people with visible differences, launched the #IAmNotYourVillain campaign to change the portrayal of people with scars. The charity aims to provide people with body confidence, support and opportunities, […]
Bathroom Politics: Clubbing for Wheelchair Users
It’s a Friday night, which for many means one thing: clubbing. I find myself migrating towards the venue we have chosen alongside a host of glitter faced, plaid-clad revellers following pre-drinks at a friend’s house on campus. Amongst […]
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome – “Isn’t That Just Laziness?”
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) is often brushed off as tiredness or attention-seeking, if it’s recognised at all. After all, everyone gets worn-out. In reality people have died from CFS, and at its worst those with […]
The Undateables: Helpful or Harmful?
BAFTA nominated TV programme ‘The Undateables’, which follows a different group of disabled singletons each week on their journey for love, has returned to Channel 4 for its seventh series. The popular reality show has […]
Welfare at Leeds: Accessible LUU
Your Union Affairs Officer Jack Palmer writes about all the vents going on across Leeds as part of Disabled Access Day, as well as discussing how the Union Upgrade is affecting students right here at […]
Keep Calm and Carry on
Edmund Goldrick outlines the danger with the ‘tough it out’ attitude towards illness in the work place and university. Who’s at risk? And what should we be trying to change? Catch any bus, go to […]
It’s time we talk about disability
What I thought would be a regular Wednesday afternoon turned into one of the most educational and eye-opening days I’ve had in a long time. Sitting at a table with the Disability Action Society at […]
Welfare at Leeds: Disabled is not a bad word
When I started organising Disability History Month, I didn’t identify as disabled. Sure, I had some on-going, chronic health conditions, and a variety of mental illnesses – but I wasn’t disabled. That was reserved for […]