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" Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities. "

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" It became very clear to me that Yooralla was not as interested in media coverage that explored issues faced by people with disability as it was in giving a pat on the back to journalists who maintained the status quo by giving readers the warm and fuzzies over their morning paper. "

" Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of the reason we work is to earn money. In between all this work, we like to eat out at restaurants, go on trips, buy nice things, not to mention pay rent and meet the cost of living. "

" I grew up in a very small country town in Victoria. I had a very normal, low-key kind of upbringing. I went to school, I hung out with my friends, I fought with my younger sisters. It was all very normal. "

" Disability is often framed, in medical terms, as the ultimate disaster and certainly as a deficit. "

" My parents didn't know what to do with me, so they just pretended I was normal, and that worked out quite well for me. "

" Self esteem and a healthy body image for people with disabilities are so often hard-fought. "

" I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism. "

" I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world. "

" Most disability charity hinges on that notion - that you need to send your money in quick before all these poor, pitiful people die. Peddling pity brings in the bucks, yo. "

" I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than medical approach to disability, and so long Latin names for congenital conditions are not relevant. "

" On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful. "

" For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud. "

" The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder. "

" The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us. "

" I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes and recording my life for other people is what I've spent a fair chunk of my time doing. "

" I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name of my condition in an interview unless it's relevant to the context of the story. "

" The purpose of our justice system is to reflect the values of our society and to punish those who violate our standards. "

" I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a political ideology I came to in my late teens and early 20s. "

" It's undeniable that what we are taught as a culture to believe about disability is at odds with traditional notions of masculinity. "

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" Disability doesn't make you exceptional, but questioning what you think you know about it does. "

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" From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant I could not access, to the beautifully accessible buses in New York City, I was in heaven. "

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" There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies. "

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