September 5 – 11 is Spinal Cord Injuries Awareness Week, and Spinal Cord Injuries Australia (SCIA) is choosing to celebrate it by emphasising that broader representation of people with spinal cord injuries matters.
Disability inclusion isn’t by any means a new discussion, but it’s important. It helps change how our able-bodied counterparts perceive disability.
Our Resource Hub production team have lived experience of spinal cord injury share their experiences with how societal expectations of people with disabilities have led to incorrect assumptions:
We want to see more people with disabilities represented in our teachers, managers, politics and lawmakers. We want our able bodied peers to give us chances in the workplace, fair and equal access and include us in mainstream media. We want to see a movement for a more inclusive world.
SCIA wants to emphasise Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Week as a way of celebrating the diversity of disability. One way to highlight the campaign #WeThe15 – the biggest human rights movement to end discrimination. People with disabilities make up 15% of the world’s population, and yet face daily discrimination in all levels of society.
Over the next decade, the WeThe15 movement will be pushing for more representation so people with disabilities don’t feel like they are left out of the conversation.
Head to https://www.wethe15.org/.