Rights not charity:a brief history of UK disability rights in 3 steps

This event is open for all.

This event provides an introduction to disability activism in the UK over the last 50+ years. It provides a chance to learn about disability as marginalised identity in an accessible way, through a focus on three key areas that have shaped the disability movement.

The talk will bring together scholarship with examples from disability culture. Led by a disabled activist and scholar, the talk will begin by introducing the audience to the social model of disability and explore how it is bound up in the idea of ‘independent living’. Secondly, it will explore the events that led to the implementation Disability Rights Act (later included in the Equality Act). It will conclude by exploring how austerity politics since 2010 have shaped (and continue to shape) the modern disability movement.