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Disability Debrief

By Peter Torres Fremlin and friends.

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Go give them their flowers

Grief and memorial in disability community
21 May 2025
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All hands together

Help Disability Debrief meet the moment
15 May 2025
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A scrambled breakfast

AI opens up visual access but closes down social change
07 May 2025
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The Chair of Saint Peter

The most famous wheelchair user in the world, and curated news on disability from 29 countries
30 Apr 2025
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Coming together as we fall apart

Was the Global Disability Summit a Goodbye?
23 Apr 2025
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Pressing pause

The Debrief takes a week off
16 Apr 2025
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A good friend of mine

Falling in love with assistive technology in Indonesia
09 Apr 2025
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Recovering our dreams

A dispatch from the Global Disability Summit
02 Apr 2025
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The choices are not equal

Raúl Krauthausen challenges segregation of disabled people in Germany
26 Mar 2025
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A familiar place

Five years of Covid, forced back to work, and curated news from 39 countries
19 Mar 2025
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