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.
1990s
Johnny Crescendo singing with many other disabled activists as part of disability rights movements. Johnny’s songs were central to the disability rights movements in the 1990s.
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Johnny Crescendo singing with many other disabled activists as part of disability rights movements. Johnny’s songs were central to the disability rights movements in the 1990s.
