Help me open the door
Making media for a more open disability movement
Delusions and draft-dodging
Conflicts, corruption and curated news from 46 countries
Their mission? To mould us.
The persistence of segregation and a love-hate relationship with education
Finding my fairy-tale
Tales of travel with a wheelchair and a green passport
Unequal partnership
Funders should support the disability movement more directly
Protection against the sun
Climate change, backsliding democracy and news from 55+ countries
Discuss, curse and flirt
Fluidity in signing, better disability advocacy and the right not to explain
What type of country we become
Disabled people between Georgia’s Soviet legacy and European future
Maintain grassroots authenticity
Challenges of leadership renewal and other insights from the mailbag
Working to work
Disabled people fighting for accessible livelihoods in India
Why sport must be reimagined
The Paralympics 2024 and disability news from 55+ countries
We need new leadership
The international disability movement needs transparency and accountability
What went wrong?
Uncovering the crisis at the International Disability Alliance
Paralympic Paradoxes
The tensions between Para sport and disability advocacy
Gold medal in discrimination
The Olympics and recent disability news from 47 countries
Fall with me
My childhood, told through its falls
No way to run a country
Ageism and ableism are playing a central role in the US election
The other side of a glass wall
The loneliness of life in the community
A thousand welcomes
Protests from Kenya, accessing God, and much more from the mailbag
What kind of world do we live in
Guide to recent disability news from 50 countries
What silence says
Insights from recent academic and policy research
Disability over-confident
Commitments to inclusion not being put into practice
Testimonies from the past
How disabled people’s life stories challenge official histories
A duty to shed light
Guide to recent disability news from 50 countries
Bigger than the machine
Ida Putri's journey into activism and creating opportunities for others
No ifs, no buts, no maybes
Remembering Sir Robert Martin, the language of disability, and more
A new wave of disability media
Navigating tensions between art, activism and access
Challenge and conformity
K-pop, carnival, therapy, and critiques of inclusion
Getting to know each other
A reader survey and updates from behind-the-scenes
Assume that I can hit harder
Guide to recent disability news from 50+ countries
Schisms in the Church
The disconnect faced by deaf worshippers in Nigeria
Illness moved in waves
Exploring chronic illness, deafness and facial difference
Finding our future
The crisis at IDA, hierarchies, poetry, and more
Don’t shut the door behind you
Gatekeeping undermines the disability movement
I really wanted to further my education
Guide to recent disability news from nearly 50 countries
What I've learned in conversation
Weaving together disability and climate justice
We need to talk
Does the disability movement need a strategic reset?
Here be dragons
Will AI helped disabled people into work, or should we stop working?
I'd fight like hell for you
Julia Watts Belser on not giving up on each other in the climate crisis
Castles in the air
Guide to recent disability news from 60+ countries
Successes and Setbacks
Life stories of women with disabilities in Yemen
A disabled farewell to 2023
Reflections on my year and how Judy's passing changes our movement
Stories you won't read elsewhere
Making media for the disability movement in 2023
How can I allow you to go to church?
Shackling in Ghana, Israel-Palestine, and much more
Lifeboat in the ocean
Australian disability benefits, US Civil war, and a shift on mental health
Taking the side of humanity
Reactions to Israel-Gaza coverage, disability advocacy and more
A song for freedom
An activist reveals the situation of disabled people in Myanmar's civil war
Wary of being too dependent
Latest disability news: care, sunscreen, smuggling and much more.
A disability lens on conflict
Israel-Gaza war and news from 50+ countries
Stories move the world
Disability Rights Fund support Disability Debrief
The weight of the issue
Showing up disabled in the climate movement
Call me in the morning
Disability culture highlights: Judy Heumann, Protactile and more
Turning the tide
Fighting for equality when rights are eroded
Heroes and victims
Mailbag edition on changing culture, belonging, love and much more
Bullfighting, Barbie and Borges
Latest international disability news from nearly 60 countries
The fastest-growing library of disability resources
Disability news from 145+ countries and resource guide on climate change
It's a cultural fight
Christian Tasso on challenging perceptions of difference
Sailing away
Global mental health, mad justice, and disability culture
Considered a backup
The overlooked power of disabled care
How many disabled people are there?
Why the complexity of disability can't be reduced to one number
Benefits are broken
Latest disability news from nearly 60 countries
“Can't work without it”
Ford Foundation support Disability Debrief
Protesting the protestors
Segregation in France, Paralympic Games and the sickness in our work
My prayer to failure
Reflections 10 years after the Rana Plaza building collapse
Bad people took pity on us
Stories from wartime Ukraine, migration across Mexico, and higher education in Brazil
Disability news from 50+ countries, June 2023
From the top of Everest to protests in Paris and Seoul
A just transition for disabled people
A disability lens on greening economies and society
Do we practice what we preach?
The discrimination we face while advocating on disability
A small group of people
Movement building, assistive technology and acquiring disability
Taming the tiger
Updates from Sudan, the future of care and ableism in the Paralympics
لسنا وحدنا : الأشخاص ذوو الإعاقة في نزاع السودان
التنقل في الأزمات وأشياء تجمعها أنظمة الحب
“We are not alone”: Disabled people in Sudan's conflict
Mobility in crisis, and the systems of love that hold things together
Benefits for Bond Villains
Disabled villains, humanitarian crises, and how Judy changed the world
How do we look after each other?
Rethinking care systems with policy and personal experience
If I had a magic wand
Disability community and where the Debrief is going
Where disability and climate meet
Disabled wisdom and an invitation to community
Not willing to be neutral
Disability leaders, dismantling objectivity, and a broader view of health
Disabled People in Peru's Political Protests
Breaking stereotypes about protest and taking an active role during a crisis
More like persecution than support
Protests in Poland, ways to cheat inclusion, and news from over 50 countries.
Our movement is in mourning
Remembering Judy Heumann, and how she changed us.
A disability lens on world news
A vision that grounds the news in our lived experiences.
Don't you have mercy on yourself?
How we turn our isolation into connection
Healthcare has to be healed
The impacts of health inequities and how we take revenge.
The progress we made is at risk
Economic recession, ancient history and new books
“You follow policy, but I want equality”
Curated disability news and highlights from over 75 countries.
How we're making disability media, and how you can help
Its role in a stronger disability movement, and why we need your support
Escaping institutions, and their shadows
Escaping segregation and my hopes for Tutankhamun
Wheelbarrow or throne, revolutionary or royal
Highlights and curated news from 60+ countries
Advocacy in turbulent times
Jose Viera on how the disability movement can navigate uncertainty.
Can COP27 contribute to disability-inclusive climate justice?
Facing barriers at every turn, disabled people are fighting for their leadership to be recognised.
Revolution and strategies to win
Updates from the Iran protests and around the world
Shallow, siloed and tokenistic: critiques of inclusion
Plus: assisted suicide, access to the air, and the bodies we dream of.
Fractured, fighting, fixed: adventures in hospital
Why medical systems struggle with inclusion
A new resource on disability rights
A fast-growing library, and the web accessibility challenges in making it.
Feeling pride, feeling poorly, feeling the prices
Plus: punk, stamp collecting, and much more
Disability in the Heat
Why authorities need to prioritise people at highest risk as temperatures rise
A disability-rights view on community and mental health
Bhargavi Davar on Buddhism, connection, colonialism and earthworms
Assistive technology: needed by one in three, and me
Plus: wheelchair cameos, children left behind in Ukraine, and curated news
Reader Rebrief: classifying disability, Russia, and digital media
Plus: new support to the Debrief, and memories of Marcia Rioux
"I'm not rebellious": Abner Manlapaz, lifelong rebel
Finding disability rights and fighting for them, plus the Philippines elections
"We can turn this around": Bristol's plan for a Green and Accessible Future
Plus: Floods in South Africa and systemic roots of climate breakdown
New Frontiers for Activism in AI and Tech
Plus where we are with covid, key pieces on Ukraine, remembering Marcia Rioux, and much more
Responses to climate change leaving disabled people behind
Plus: what I missed on Ukraine, and more from readers.
On the War in Ukraine
Comprehensive news update with the art and poetry we need to understand it
From awareness to action, with Yazmine Laroche
Lessons-learned from working for an inclusive Canadian public service
Love, War and Talkshops
All-you-can-eat guide to international disability news, February 2022
Left for dead, going to school, teen drama and much more
All-you-can-eat guide to international news, January 2022
Guide to international news, December 2021
Disability day, new research, great dance moves: now with reader support
The story of a changing world and how to keep telling it
What the newsletter covered in 2021 and why I need your help
What does 15% mean? with Jennifer Madans
Going deep on disability data, how we gather it, and how we use it to make change
Guide to international news, November 2021
Climate, Covid, culture and more in a curated guide
Catching up with International News, September 2021
Global collection of research, articles, news and views
Disability Debrief in Rehab
My summer break
“Girls and women with disabilities are leaders now,” with Misti Ashrafun Nahar
Conversation on inclusion in Bangladesh and the relationship between disabled people's organizations and international development partners
Guide to International News, May 2021
More virus news, aid cuts, big business on board, all the reports and more
“To make change happen, you cannot be defined by one thing” with Caroline Casey
Conversation on experience, expectations, and how disability is infused in business
Guide to International News, April 2021
Hey Debriefers,
Welcome to the April round-up of disability news from around the world.
This edition picks up where the March edition left off. You can also catch-up on the
"Education should be more than sitting and learning," with Bernice Oyeleke
Her Abilities Award winner on education, identity and how she's making change.
"We don't want to go back to an inaccessible health system" with Antony Duttine
Understanding disability-inclusion in health systems and the shocks of COVID-19
Guide to international news, March 2021
Remembering friends, catching-up with COVID-19, Criplentines Day and much more
“We need to pay more attention to people”, interview with Stefan Tromel
February 2021, Part 2
"We are not the Disability Police" Interview with Stefan Tromel
February 2021, Part 1
Resources from our International Day and more
We all want a holiday, so here's a handy reference of what just happened
A global overview of disability news, November 2020 edition
November 2020
Interview with Catalina Devandas
November 2020
An international update on persons with disabilities in the COVID-19 crisis
30 September 2020
Disinfected: the news that's not COVID-19
Mid-June 2020
Where we are now: disability in the pandemic
26 April 2020
Overview and update on coronavirus and disability
26 March 2020
News on coronavirus response
18 March 2020
A lot happened in February even without the leap-year
February 2020
Staying up-to-date on international disability work
First edition, January 2020