Ian Dury – an epitaph to punk’s lost disability advocate
CCS Disability Action staff member Gareth Griffiths finds an unlikely hero in punk icon Ian Dury. The year was 1979 and...
There’s nothing wrong with me!
As a person who uses a wheelchair it’s a question I hear on an almost daily basis, “What’s wrong with you?”....
Seeing me for me, not my disability.
CCS Disability Action Communications and Marketing intern Joel Bell discusses the attitudes, both good and bad, he faces as a person...
The art of tinkering
Tinkering with ideas for new products and services can be a great way to explore whether self-employment is a viable option....
Disability – not the end of the world!
Disabled woman Jacqui Carlson asks, do all disabled people need to be fixed? People seem to assume that having a disability...
What I Daniel Blake can teach us about New Zealand’s benefit system
A couple of years ago I had the harrowing experience of seeing I Daniel Blake, an impassioned film by Ken Loach...