Disability – Liz Hall-Downs

‘poem for the non-visibly disabled’ and ‘disabled’: an exegesis

Featured image: ‘Liz Hall, Two exposures’, Lee Waddell, circa 1986 I wrote the following article as a submission to Black Inc’s upcoming anthology, ‘Growing Up Disabled in Australia’. The editor, Carly Findlay, was only able to choose 40 of the 350 submissions received. That’s an astonishing response, and speaks to just how keen disabled people […]

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New article published

This was published today in Inform online. Thanks to editor Kirby Fenwick for this opportunity. There are a few things in here I wish I’d known decades ago, especially about other people’s ableism. https://www.informonline.org.au/how-disability-advocates-helped-my-self-confidence/

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Living with an Invisible Disability 101: Effing Ableism!

WARNING. ANGRY RANT ABOUT INSENSITIVE KNOW-IT-ALLS AHEAD! (This was a personal social media post but the response from disabled friends has prompted me to share it more widely. Thanks to all who commented.) Featured photo from healthline.com I had a really awful experience of Ableism recently.I went to a new exercise class to try it […]

by Liz Hall-Downs

Poems published in Blue Fifth Review, 2003.

Blue Fifth Review made me one of their feature poets in 2003 and published these uncollected poems. The theme was ‘place’. ‘Place: of Invisibility’ ’Place: of Beauty’ PDF file, as it appeared online, below. https://lizhalldowns.files.wordpress.com/2019/03/safari-22-mar-2019-at-1053-am-1.pdf

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Living with an Invisible Disability 101: Joining the conversation – #thingsdisabledpeopleknow

I’m proud to know the amazing disabled activist Imani Barbarin. Smart, funny and incisive, she’s worth following if you give a damn about what’s going on in the disability space. Which we all should be, because most of us will experience disability at some point in our lives, one way or another. Recently Imani started […]

by Liz Hall-Downs

Published Fiction #5: ‘Simon’, from ‘The Death of Jimi Hendrix’, an excerpt from a novel in progress

Published in ‘fourWtwelve’, the literary magazine of Booranga Writers’ Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, 2001 Copyright Liz Hall-Downs, 2001, 2018

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Living with an Invisible Disability 101: Carers

An online group I’m in recently posed the question of how we Crip Warriors should respond to the plethora of articles that discuss ‘parenting a child with a disability”. As we share the ‘Social Model’ Of Disability, and call out Ableism in all its manifestations, we also often point out how these articles, in the […]