Tags: campaigning

Lauren West also contributed to this piece.
An interesting conversation came up in the Trailblazer’s pod of desks this week – it was about a new term called “armchair activism”.

Today (8th March) is International Women’s Day 2017 and the theme this year is ‘Be Bold for Change’. In her blog, Michaela Hollywood, Trailblazers Campaigns Officer, argues why disabled women must be bold for change too.

I was diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy (LGMD2a) when I was 19 and I started using a wheelchair after falling and shattering my kneecap.

Having seen the trailers for this film at my local cinema and with my wife having a form of muscular dystrophy (oculopharangeal muscular dystrophy – OPMD), we were determined to see this film which we did last night (Tuesday 1st November).

A quick review

N.B.: PLEASE NOTE, THAT ALL THOUGHTS, LINKS AND WORDS BELOW ARE MY OWN, AND DON’T NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF THE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CAMPAIGN / TRAILBLAZERS OR MY WORK WITH THEM.

I went down to London for voluntary experience and the APPG meeting on Disability Hate Crime.

Monday saw an exciting day for Trailblazers with the launch of our housing investigation on national radio and constructive meetings with ParalympicsGB and the disability rights charity Scope.

The third installment in my troubles with London Midland

Today, I was interviewed by Tom Edwards (Transport & Environment Correspondent from BBC London) to do a follow up report from his previous report with me last August about accessibility on the Underground; specifically, the accessibility to Stratfo