---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Dr. David Bolt" <d...@hope.ac.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:38:49 +0100 Subject: More than Needs petition: please consider signing and/or sharing To: disability-resea...@jiscmail.ac.uk
More than Needs: Demand appreciation as well as support. The More than Needs petition is a response to the one-dimensional stance adopted by many disability charities. Specifically, the RNIB’s new See the Need campaign is purely negative and thus insulting to people who experience the world via other than visual means. It may be necessary to demand support, as the RNIB asserts, but not at the expense of appreciation. If you sign the More than Needs petition you are calling for complexity in the representation of disability. In particular, you are urging the abandonment or else marked improvement of the RNIB’s See the Need campaign. For further information: https://theconversation.com/shame-on-you-rnib-you-see-the-need-of-blind-people-but-omit-our-achievements-48688 To sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/rnib-ceo-lesley-anne-alexander-the-abandonment-or-appreciative-improvement-of-the-rnib-s-see-the-need-campaign?recruiter=67430913&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=autopublish&utm_term=mob-xs-share_petition-no_msg&fb_ref=Default ________________End of message________________ This Disability-Research Discussion list is managed by the Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds (www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies). Enquiries about list administration should be sent to disability-research-requ...@jiscmail.ac.uk Archives and tools are located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can VIEW, POST, JOIN and LEAVE the list by logging in to this web page. -- Avinash Shahi Doctoral student at Centre for Law and Governance JNU Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
