One of the aims of our project is to make collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people more visible – and to share some of the objects our Fellows and Trainees are discovering.
Some will have quite obvious connections to disabled people’s lives – a walking stick, some braille or images of disabled people. But we will also be exploring less obvious connections too. Sometimes the significance of an object is its owner; its part in a bigger story, or the way someone with lived experience of disability has responded to it. In this way we hope to broaden the ways that d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent stories are told.
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Images: street protest; protest outside House of Commons; protest at Trafalgar Square.
British Council of Organisations of Disabled People (BCODP) was a national movement of disabled people fighting for legal, social, and cultural change. Alongside other groups BCODP brought about the passage of the Disability Discrimination Act in 1995.
