Imagine Better @_ImagineBetter

Providing resources for disabled people, their families and whānau, and their allies, to take action for a more accessible, fair, and inclusive world. imaginebetter.co.nz New Zealand Joined July 2009

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Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield

5 years ago

#FlyingWhileDisabled New Design May Let Passengers Fly in Their Wheelchairs | by Seth McBride newmobility.com/new-design-may…

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RGS-IBG Higher Ed @RGS_IBGhe

5 years ago

New in #Area: 'Everyday activisms: Parental places and emotions of disability activism in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand' by Carey-Ann Morrison et al. (@_ImagineBetter, @DPA_NZ, @waikato) doi.org/10.1111/area.1…

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Imagine Better @_ImagineBetter

5 years ago

Imagine Better and Disability Responsiveness New Zealand are working with the 3 District Health Boards of Wellington, Wairarapa and Hutt Valley (3DHB) to do a project on disabled people’s experiences of accessing local healthcare services. imaginebetter.co.nz/3dhb_call_for_…

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Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield

5 years ago

Don’t blame disabled people. Blame barriers. Blame ableism. Stop victimizing and villainizing disabled people.

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Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield

5 years ago

Disabled people are not “lucky” to have access and accommodation. Barriers are torn down by the zealous advocacy of disabled people not “luck.”

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Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield

5 years ago

Inaccessibility is the horror that keeps on going. Disabled people are excluded and excluded and excluded and most people don’t give a damn.

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Imagine Better @_ImagineBetter

5 years ago

"It makes me angry to hear people are stealing mobility permits and selling them online. I've had a mobility permit stolen once and it was such a pain not parking in the mobility parks." stuff.co.nz/national/healt…

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Imagine Better @_ImagineBetter

5 years ago

And she's just constantly sitting there going, ‘it's going to be a lot of money and you just need to try to be rational’,” Green MP Golriz Ghahraman told Stuff’s disability podcast What’s Wrong With You? stuff.co.nz/national/healt…

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Imagine Better @_ImagineBetter

5 years ago

"I think there is a lack of understanding of how mobility devices serve as an extension of our bodies. A broken mobility device is not an inconvenience, it is a major life-altering event that disrupts people’s lives." stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-…

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Imagine Better @_ImagineBetter

5 years ago

"I’ve come a long way since that first day of school, but I hope other kids with disabilities and their families don’t have to experience that same first day my family did." stuff.co.nz/national/educa…

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Imagine Better @_ImagineBetter

5 years ago

Stay safe! facebook.com/UniteAgainstCO…

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Imagine Better @_ImagineBetter

5 years ago

"Better inclusion, participation and wellbeing of disabled people must be a priority for action." imaginebetter.co.nz/submission_on_…

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Robyn Hunt @AccEase

5 years ago

"Differently abled?! Did my ears deceive me? From Kathryn Ryan previewing @ninetonoon? For heaven's sake! #euphemism #Saytheword #disability

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Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield

5 years ago

For disabled people, a broken elevator is not an inconvenience. It is an emergency.

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Robyn Hunt @AccEase

5 years ago

Disingenuous of the PM to say group 3 had plenty of time being prioritised for vaccine appointments. We had no follow up to the 1st text & proactively made an appointment asp. Only in the last days has there been any effort in Welly Not so easy for some. Lots of queue jumpers tho

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Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield

5 years ago

I don’t want to hear anymore about access costs for disabled people being a burden. Inaccessibility is a burden. Isolation is a a burden. Segregation is a burden. Exclusion is a burden. Ableism is a burden.

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Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield

5 years ago

Medical staff to me a wheelchair user:”We are ready for you. I spent yesterday teaching the staff how to operate the Hoyer lift to get you on the table.” Me:”I don’t need the lift. I need an accessible table.” The cardinal rule of access is: Ask the disabled person first.

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Robyn Hunt @AccEase

5 years ago

Blind Citizens NZ has won the American Council of the Blind’s “Audio Description Project's Audio Description Achievement Award in the International category.” Congratulations to all involved, a big team of many contributors. #a11y #artsaccess #media #audiodescription

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Gregory Mansfield @GHMansfield

5 years ago

The contortions that nondisabled people go through to avoid saying “disabled” person and replacing it with “handicapable” and “differently abled” are an exercise in paternalism, devaluation and dehumanization.

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Robyn Hunt @AccEase

5 years ago

Dear @ninetonoon. Disability is not the barrier. The barrier is poverty, lack of support etc The big barrier is #a11y for many. Access to the right #tech too. No matter how confident or skilled you are etc if you can't use it you're had it! Don't blame the user. Good on the CAB.