We have an upcoming disability rights in the UK zine, should anything else be on the reading list?
Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research)
@richamm.bsky.social
🔥Free Disability Zines🔥 https://linktr.ee/disabilityark Disability: History, Politics, Media Analysis and more! Recent ones include Disability and: | Star Trek | Ancient Egypt | Radicals | Gods | Film Analysis Tools | Feminists | Anarchists | and more!
Remember @hbuxton.bsky.social new book 'Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in Girst World War Britain' has dropped with Uni of Chicago Press. You can get 30% off the book through the end of the year with the code UCPNEW press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #milwelfhist #histmed #disabilityhist
Disabled Empire
Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health. Disabled Empire exami...
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CFP alert: We are thrilled to announce the Call for Presenters for a hybrid event in collaboration with @britishlibrary.bsky.social! This will be taking place on 27th November 2026, with presentations happening both in-person and online. Deadline to submit your ideas is: 31st July 2026! #DisHist
"The new tool makes it easier for parents & community members to view annual vaccination rates at individual schools — not just at the state or county-level like before — boosting transparency & giving families a clearer picture of how well protected their children’s classrooms are"
New online tool lets parents see vaccination rates at individual schools
The goal is to boost transparency and give families a clearer picture of how well protected their children’s classrooms are.
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This is the point that should be made over and over again in the prison overcrowding row. The focus is on releasing violent male prisoners but the majority of female prisoners are not a threat to the public - and should always have been given community orders.
My first academic journal publication : Richard Amm (2026) Development of the People or Props Tool: Integrating Prejudice Reduction Psychology Insights to Improve Representations of Disability on Screen International Journal of Disability and Social Justice, 6: 2 DOI: doi.org/10.13169/int...
Development of the People or Props Tool: Integrating Prejudice Reduction Psychology Insights to Improve Representations of Disability on Screen
<p xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" class="first" dir="auto" id="d9732759e94">Representations of disability in media often perpetuate stereotypes that reinforce prejudice and lead to the marginalisation and oppression of disabled people. Many conventions for representing disabled people in film have not changed since the dawn of cinema, which was also a time of mainstream popularisation of the eugenics movement. Several approaches are necessary to dismantle and replace these problematic conventions, and this paper develops a research-based tool to help achieve that goal. A disabled psychologist utilised the Delphi method and incorporated feedback from 30 disability and media experts as well as insights from prejudice reduction psychological research to develop a new media analysis tool. The proposed People or Props Tool contains two parts: the People or Props Quickscore, which allows for quick assessment of the quality of representation and generates a score, and the People or Props Recommendations, which offer detailed advice for improved representation. This tool could be especially useful for sensitivity readers, writers, and funding decision makers within the media industry, encouraging feedback and revisions during the development process rather than serving as a rigid, prescriptive list. This approach allows for flexibility in storytelling while providing guidelines for improved representation. The tool can also be easily adapted to improve representations of other minority groups.</p>
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Free "ancient Greek god-killing robot TTRPG" zine 🎲 w/disability themes+disabled character, from DARK & @richamm.bsky.social & @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social (+QT'd ancient Greece & disability zine below)
Forgemasters Fury - Greek Mythology TTRPG
TTRPG for 2-4 players. Ancient Greek Mythology Setting. Hephaestus was born with burning intelligence and bent and twisted legs. The gods of Olympus rejected him, flinging him into the sea to drown. B...
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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research)@richamm.bsky.social · 2w agoFree zine - Ancient Greece and Disability linktr.ee/disabilityark
The lazy sociopath who golfs instead of working (on, say, a plan to win a war with Iran) wants terminally ill patients to work for benefits they’re entitled to.
Appalling cruelty — and all to fund more tax cuts for the rich.
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Scientists finally have a biological explanation for why long COVID patients lose motivation and can't think clearly. They scanned their brains and found the dopamine system was physically damaged - T...
Millions of people with long COVID report the same cluster of symptoms: a crushing lack of motivation, an inability to think clearly, memory that slips, movements that feel slower than they should. Fo...
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#OtD 1 Aug 1902 Lola Iturbe was born in Barcelona. A maid and seamstress from childhood, she was a lifelong anarchist involved in the @CNTsindicato uprisings in 1933 and 1934, the 1936 revolution, and the founding of the Mujeres Libres feminist group stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8045...
With the prospect of more suicidal oil drilling, and unlimited £billions for 'defence' it looks like Burnham has chosen the genocidal, war economy instead of green #TaxTheRich welfare "'Try-again’ PM Burnham lauds nukes and militarism during BAE visit" www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
'Try-again' PM Burnham lauds nukes and militarism during BAE visit
New BAE-cheering Prime Minister Andy Burnham's left-wing credentials have lasted about as long as left-out milk, so far
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Andy Burnham has edged further towards clarifying his policy on DWP reform, taking a step away from blaming disabled claimants but still failing to acknowledge the safeguarding risks of the sanction-heavy approach he appears to favour. #AndyBurnham #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/burnham-edge...
Burnham edges towards revealing his DWP policy, but still no word on safeguarding concerns
Andy Burnham has edged further towards clarifying his policy on work and pensions reform, taking a step away from blaming disabled claimants but still failing to acknowledge the safeguarding risks …
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"US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies" Dear Republicans: Go fuck yourselves. Your president was not the savior you're trying to make him out to be! 448K Americans died because he was a fuck up. 😡😡😡 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...
US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies
The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries
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I'm so, so exhausted by all of the ignorant backlash against stuff like this. Neurodivergence, disability, gender, dysphoria. Endless headlines and no-think pieces based on refusal to understand the basics, of what people are saying. The Channel 4 complaints page: www.channel4.com/4viewers/con...
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Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”
Tories block Disability News Service from receiving press releases, and stop answering its calls and emails www.disabilitynewsservice.com/tories-block... Via @johnpring.bsky.social
Tories block Disability News Service from receiving press releases, and stop answering its calls and emails
Disability News Service (DNS) has been blocked by Conservative head office from receiving any of the party’s press releases or even submitting media requests. The move appears to have followed a se…
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Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is about to begin a “life-threatening” project that will reassess the remaining 150,000 working-age disabled people who are still receiving disability living allowance (DLA) www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-warned-a... Via @johnpring.bsky.social
DWP warned as it begins another ‘life-threatening’ disability benefits migration project
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is about to begin a “life-threatening” project that will finally reassess the remaining 150,000 working-age disabled people who are still receiving disabi…
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GM Disability Justice Picnic 1-4pm, Saturday 22nd August Alexandra Park Pavilion & Cafe M16 8PJ Food, Drink, games, socialising, open mic.
I think there is a lot to be said for the Commonwealth Games decision to mix parasports in with the other sports but it does seem like the side effect is that there is much less coverage of parasports in mainstream publications which is a real shame
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"COVID-19 Triggers Autoimmune Diseases Long After Infection" Researchers analysed 8 large studies involving tens of millions of people across 6 countries. All found the same pattern: people who recovered from COVID-19 had a higher risk of later developing autoimmune diseases. archive.md/6MwhU
Don't think I've posted much about it on here, but in 2018 I made this Mini Daily Mail with a free 'DIANA: The Enemy Within' pullout. Still available from my website: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page...
Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives@spellingmistakescostlives.com · last wk.I had a joke like this I was going to put in my Mini Daily Mail
** NEW VOLUME ** Following on from the first book, this new volume explores the diseases and wounds, both physical and psychological, suffered by soldiers between 1300 and 1550, alongside the treatments administered by those who looked after them.
@kingqueen.org.uk Apparently its become much harder to find lawyers to do disability discrimination cases due to a change in the law relating to the money. Do you know anything about this? I am trying to find a source.