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“Sea-Glass Survivors” (Shepherd et al., 2024): Navigating Education as Disabled Young People

May 21, 2024April 2, 2024

A word cloud of some of the challenges of being disabled in education identified by The LUNA Community

By Amber Daw You can listen to this blog post here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-luna-project/episodes/Sea-Glass-Survivors-Navigating-Education-as-Disabled-Young-People-by-Amber-Daw-e2hs72r As part of reading for my MA Inclusive Education Autism module, I came across the paper “‘Sea-glass survivors’: autistic testimonies about education experiences” by Jacqui Shepherd, Beth Sutton, Simon Smith and Marysia Szlenkier. This paper enables three autistic adults (as co-authors) to reflect …

Shirley Anne Bingham: Why Having an Ambulatory Wheelchair User in Doctor Who Was So Important for The Disabled Community by Hannah

May 21, 2024March 10, 2024

By Shirley Anne Bingham You can also listen to this blog post here: You can listen to the post here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-luna-project/episodes/Shirley-Anne-Bingham-Why-Having-an-Ambulatory-Wheelchair-User-in-Doctor-Who-Was-So-Important-for-The-Disabled-Community-by-Hannah-e2gst7g The 60th anniversary specials of Doctor Who brought us a new character, Shirley Anne Bingham, played by disabled actress Ruth Madeley. Shirley is an ambulatory wheelchair user, and as an ambulatory wheelchair user myself, …

Representation in Media by Beth Dillon

May 21, 2024March 3, 2024

"Myself on My Shelf": A Watercolour Painting by Beth Image Description: A scan of a watercolour painting of 13 different book spines all lined up. The books include Far From The Tree, Sound, Another Alice, Disability Visibility and The Secret of Haven Point to name a few.

By Beth Dillon You can also listen to this blog post here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-luna-project/episodes/Representation-in-Media-by-Beth-Dillon-e2gip4e It was being on the cusp of high school when I felt like I really started to need representation in media, and having been a keen reader all throughout my childhood, books were my first introduction. The first one I read, which …

How Wheelchair Basketball Changed My Life

February 5, 2024January 10, 2024

By Abbie Johnston You can listen to the blog post: I was a very active child. I competed in triathlons, training five times a week: swimming on Monday and Wednesday, running on Tuesday and Friday and cycling on a weekend. I had boundless energy. My dad often tells a story from when I was around …

Climbing With A Disability – By Hannah Frost

January 10, 2024December 16, 2023

You can also listen to this blog post here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5R0ERf0aPa7k3le8Cr4GeL?si=69e2240bef354710 Many people think climbing is a really strenuous sport and if you do it, you must be fit, healthy and strong. But whilst climbing is a demanding sport and the top climbers are incredibly fit and strong, it is also a very technique-based sport and …

A Qualitative Exploration into the Experience of People Living with Epilepsy and Mental Illness

January 10, 2024November 25, 2023

By Ally Lloyd, Supervised by Dr Chiara Horlin (School of Psychology, University of Glasgow) Content Warnings: mention of suicide and self-harm and discussion of distress. Listen to this post Epilepsy is a neurological (brain) disorder that about 1 in 100 people around the world live with, making it one of the most common neurological disorders. …

LUNA Look In – Creating an Accessible and Inclusive Working Environment by Sophie Mattholie

January 10, 2024November 12, 2023

Listen Here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3LKrW25Q3EjmoMIdkHTu5K?si=f56b6bf494554bc1 This blog post is part of our LUNA Look In series! Today, I wanted to talk a bit about all the ways we make LUNA as inclusive and accessible an environment as possible. This is really important to us as a majority disabled team, especially due to how many of us have …

OSAAT(June, 2019) to LUNA (July, 2023): Reflections From the LUNA Co-founders

January 10, 2024August 23, 2023

You can listen to this blog post here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7fDxiHiB9lJXHXeYjFOiMR?si=8d1b101dd3334885 In June of 2019 we shared a blog post titled ‘Introducing us’ to launch our idea for One Step at A Time (OSAAT). In it we wrote about the isolation we felt with our experiences of disability and university, the importance of friendship, and our need …

Life Being Deaf and Disabled by Ciara McCarthy

October 22, 2023May 30, 2023

You can also listen to Ciara’s Blog here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0g87Rs76dOMV7ZavWTeblz?si=5b33129feb9b44d4 Hello, I’m Ciara McCarthy (@deafciara), and I have profound hearing loss with bilateral cochlear implants, cerebral palsy, and autism. For deaf awareness week, I wanted to share my story of being disabled and deaf. I was born with congenital CMV (cytomegalovirus), a condition which often leaves …

The War Between Mind and Body By Mehar Singh

October 22, 2023May 29, 2023

You can also listen to Mehar’s blog post here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4nfJSv3ZSDoGQgBHDvDGAf?si=800173ae07044ff3 For bodies month, I want to talk about the war between my body and my brain. My mind has its own hamster wheel; it’s constantly running with ideas, to-do lists, and plans, but my body struggles to keep up with it because I’m chronically ill. …

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