Finding collections relating to d/Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse people
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.
A white t-shirt with the words 'No guard, no access' in red, and a picture of a wheelchair user being helped onto a train by a guard.
Community curation: “We did an action up in Leeds at the railway station around the lack of access to trains and how money was being spent by the rail authorities on infrastructure rather than actually making trains accessible. They were basically going to open a garden on the platform and yet you still couldn't get on the train. This one was given to me by a friend who is an official with the RMT in Hastings. It says No Guard, No Access.”
