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*Headdesk* *Headdesk* *Headdesk*
TEDx Sydney is an Australian spin-off of the TED talk series.
Stella Young was an Australian disability activist who did a superb talk about Inspiration Porn at TEDx 2014 I'm Not Your Inspiration Thank You Very Much, that disabled people have been linking to ever since (and before that was available I was linking to the text version on Ramp Up, the disability website she ran for ABC).
I say was because she died late last year, she was 32. I never met her, I don't think I ever even tweeted to her, but friends of mine met her and she was one of those activists who was pretty much universally admired.
Which is why disabled people are horrified that TEDx Sydney have just launched 'Stella's Challenge', urging non-disabled people to go up to disabled people and ask about their disability. It's as if they've taken everything Stella stood for, everything she spoke about in her speech, wrapped it up in a bundle, thrown it away and stuck her name on something that urges non-disabled people to do everything she campaigned against.
Once disabled people reacted in horror TEDx Sydney put up an update saying 'but we talked to disability orgs'. We can only presume that if they did talk to them they weren't listening to a single damned thing that was said.
*Headdesk* *Headdesk* *Headdesk*
TEDx #StellasChallenge campaign using Stella Young angers disability sector
TEDx Sydney is an Australian spin-off of the TED talk series.
Stella Young was an Australian disability activist who did a superb talk about Inspiration Porn at TEDx 2014 I'm Not Your Inspiration Thank You Very Much, that disabled people have been linking to ever since (and before that was available I was linking to the text version on Ramp Up, the disability website she ran for ABC).
I say was because she died late last year, she was 32. I never met her, I don't think I ever even tweeted to her, but friends of mine met her and she was one of those activists who was pretty much universally admired.
Which is why disabled people are horrified that TEDx Sydney have just launched 'Stella's Challenge', urging non-disabled people to go up to disabled people and ask about their disability. It's as if they've taken everything Stella stood for, everything she spoke about in her speech, wrapped it up in a bundle, thrown it away and stuck her name on something that urges non-disabled people to do everything she campaigned against.
Once disabled people reacted in horror TEDx Sydney put up an update saying 'but we talked to disability orgs'. We can only presume that if they did talk to them they weren't listening to a single damned thing that was said.
*Headdesk* *Headdesk* *Headdesk*
