Resources
Toolkits
Own Voices Toolkit by Writers Victoria
A toolkit for creating disability access and inclusion within publishing
Accessible web design
Make sure you’re designing websites that are accessible.
Organisations
Arts Access Australia (AAA) is the national peak body for arts and disability in Australia.
SCHIZY INC
Schizy Inc makes space in the arts for people with diverse and complex mental health.
Brain Injury Matters
A self-advocacy and community education organisation run by and for people with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI).
Auslan Services
Book an interpreter for your event
National Relay Service
The National Relay Service (NRS) can help you if you’re d/Deaf or find it hard to hear or speak to hearing people on the phone.
Tagged PDF
Make sure your PDF is accessible
Round Table Print Disability
Guidelines for the production of accessible formats, including audio, braille, large print, e-text and tactile graphics.
Arts Access Australia
Organisations by state
Victoria Arts Access Victoria (AAV)
Northern Territory Arts Access
Disability Organisations
National Ethnic Disability Alliance (NEDA)
First Peoples Disability Network (FPDN)
Women With Disabilities Australia (WWDA)
People With Disability Australia (PWDA)
Opportunities
The Jerra Studio Fellowship for Writers with Disability (Varuna)
The Writer's Space Online Fellowship for Writers with Disability (Varuna)
Journals/books
Rally Magazine
Each edition will cover a new theme, and our first is a deep dive into the experience of living with an invisible illness or disability.
Sunder
A poetry journal for d/Deaf, disabled, and chronically ill creators.
Westerly magazine’s disability edition
Australian Poetry’s disability issue
Deaf Poets Society
An online journal of d/Deaf and Disabled literature and art
Wordgathering
A journal of disability poetry and literature
Southerly 76 - 2: Writing Disability
Suburban Review disability issue
Growing Up Disabled in Australia by Black Inc
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong
Admissions: Voices within Mental Health by Upswell
Other reading/viewing
Friday essay: ‘I know my ache is not your pain’ – disabled writers imagine a healthier world by Andy Jackson
FAP winner – Essay: Reasonable adjustment by Fionna Murphy
Social model of disability by PWDA
History of Australia’s disability movement by PWDA
The Disability Pandemic by El Gibbs
Defiant Lives (ABC documentary)
I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much by Stella Young (Video)
The devaluing of disability support by Áine Kelly-Costello and Jonathan Craig
I have to lodge an appeal so that I can go to my local shops by myself: what it’s like to be an NDIS participant by Amanda Tink
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