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Quoted: Disability Royal Commission Executive Summary

I am quoted on Page 18 for saying: 

Inclusion goes hand-in-hand with the social model of disability. If the world understood the social model of disability, which essentially says, I’m not disabled because of my conditions, I’m disabled because the world doesn’t give me the supports that I need, and said, okay, we are going to provide the supports that people need, then it would be inclusion by default.

  • September 2023
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Hue: Colour The Conversation - Inclusive Workplace Tookit

I wrote the section on ageism (young person perspective).

An anti-oppressive guide grounded in lived experience that provides an introduction about different kinds of discrimination. This guide explores preferred language, common microaggressions, and inclusive workplace practices and policies, in response to: racism, colonialism, queerphobia, transphobia, ageism, fatphobia, classism, sexism, ableism & neurodiversity.

  • May 2023
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PWDA: My queer, disabled body and the struggle for safety in healthcare

Content warning: References to abuse, transphobia, ableism, sexual assault, medical coercion, homophobia

For People With Disability Australia's Disability Royal Commission Blog, I wrote a piece about my queer, disabled body and the safety I had been denied in healthcare settings thanks to the queer and disabled nature of my body. 

  • March 2022
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YDAS Report: Disability in the time of COVID-19

Supported YDAS's COVID-19 Working Group (which I ran) to write a research report about the impacts of the pandemic on disabled young people.

  • September 2021
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The Age: Vaccine rollout reveals limitations in our definition of ‘priority’

Op-Ed Piece written in The Age about the failings of the vaccine rollout for disabled people in Australia.

  • August 2021
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YDAS Report: ‘It’s my education!’The Disability Standards for Education Must Centre Disabled Young People

Through my work at YDAS, wrote a submission to government about our recommendations to the review of the Disability Standards for Education.

  • September 2020
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The Age: Lessons from 2020 can make school equal for all

ublished by The Age, I wrote a piece about the experiences of disabled students during 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, and how failures in that need to be acknowledged and learnt from in order to support disabled students in 2021.

  • January 2021
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This Learning Life: Education was stopping me from learning

Commissioned by Learning Creates Australia to write a piece about my experiences as a disabled and queer student engaging in the education system.

  • January 2021
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Amaze Autism: My 2020 Experience

I was commissioned by Amaze, who is the leading organisation for autistic people in Victoria, to write a piece about my experiences during COVID-19. I wrote about the disparity between experiences of neurotypical and autistic people throughout the lockdowns and experiences of pandemic in Victoria in 2020.

  • January 2021
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World Institute on Disability: COVID Blog: My Disability-Led Workplace Handled COVID-19 Better Than My School and Hospitals By Listening to Young Disabled People

Wrote a piece for the World Institute on Disability for their COVID-19 blogs about my experiences during the pandemic as a disabled person, both in education, employment and the healthcare system.

  • November 2020
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Inform: Silver linings but the accessibility journey is not over

Honoured to have been commissioned by Independence Australia to write a piece about COVID-19 online transitions as a disabled young person who also works with disabled young people.

  • November 2020
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WWDA: Leadership by Example

A piece for WWDA's blog series about leadership, about how I have been a leader through my ability to ask for help when I need it and then encourage other people to do the same.

  • November 2020
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PWDA: Accessible education should be the norm, not the alternative

People With Disability Australia's series of guest blogs for the DRC commissioned me to write a piece about my lived experience in education as a disabled person.

  • October 2020
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Inform: How working in disability advocacy helped me feel disability pride

Writing for Inform Australia about my experience as working in the disability sector and how that enabled me to embrace my disabled identity!

  • August 2020
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ProBono Youth Matters: Why youth services must be accessible

his was a piece I had the opportunity to write for ProBono Australia's 'Youth Matters Column'.

  • July 2020
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YACVic: Autism Acceptance Month

Writing for the YACVic about Autism Acceptance Month.

  • April 2020
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VicSRC: Student Voice Hub: Disabilities, Young People and Education

Writing for VicSRC's student voice hub as a part of their Editorial Committee about disabilities, young people and education

  • March 2020
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WWDA: My Story

I shared my story of growing up with disability with WWDA.

  • March 2020