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Coronavirus: Action celebrates disability arts while highlighting pandemic concerns

By John Pring on 18th June 2020 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Coronavirus: Action celebrates disability arts while highlighting pandemic concerns
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A day of action on social media has celebrated disability culture and highlighted the concerns of disabled artists about their future as they struggle with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Artists and cultural leaders shared work by disabled visual artists, […]

Actor’s horror as disability hate crime ‘comes knocking on the door’

By John Pring on 13th November 2015 Category: Crime

Actor’s horror as disability hate crime ‘comes knocking on the door’
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A leading disability hate crime campaigner has blamed the government’s anti-benefits rhetoric for a verbal attack on the partner of a wheelchair-using Coronation Street actor. Cherylee Houston, who plays Izzy Armstrong in the soap, revealed on Twitter this week that a […]

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