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.
Collections
KEV'S DISABLED PEOPLE'S DIRECT ACTION NETWORK T-SHIRT (T-shirt)
A black t-shirt with a Star Trek-style design, which says ‘Disability Rights the Final Frontier. To boldly go where all others have gone before. Rights now.’
Community curation: "I was involved relatively early in the organisation called DAN. We were quite well known, and we got on the news. We did things like stop buses in London and handcuff ourselves to buses and trains, we even demonstrated at Harrods one year because they had made a mess of disabled access.”
