I had a very different weekend to my usual this weekend, I was down in Manchester at the National Education Union's Disabled Members Conference. Of course, I’m not an educator, I was there as a keynote speaker - along with an icon of the disability rights movement and a personal hero of mine Barbara Lisicki.
For those that aren’t familiar with Barbara, in the '90s she was an instrumental part of stopping ITVs Telethon, a bi-annual event that heavily preyed on the trauma of disabled people to raise money for charities, similar to Children in Need.
The campaign used the slogan “P*ss on Pity” to draw attention to the fact that we don’t need pity, we need support.
