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UK Disability History Month (UKDHM) runs from 22 November to 22 December. This year’s theme will be “Celebrating Our Struggle for Equality”.

A pre-launch event will be held on 22 September, venue to be confirmed. This will be an evening of commentary and presentations from renowned disabled authors, poets and activists, including:

  • Penny Beschizza – on being deaf in the UK in the past and now
  • Michelle Daley – The Black disabled experience in the UK
  • Micheline Mason – Poet and Activist, Launching her anthology “Sorry I Don’t Have the Time”
  • Katherine Quarmby – Author of “Scapegoat : Why are we failing Disabled People”
  • Dr Sonali Shah – who will be talking about her research and writing on living as a disabled person in the UK in the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s.

The event will be chaired by Richard Rieser, UKDHM co-ordinator.

For more information on UK Disability History Month please see www.ukdisabilitymonth.com