Disability Arts History Australia

Acknowledgement of Disability Community

The research team acknowledges the labour, advoacy, and artistry of the artists and allies who have worked for more than fifty years to make the arts, media, and cultural industries more inclusive for the d/Deaf, Disabled, and Neurodiverse community.

We thank you for dealing with discriminatory systems and insitutions, lack of funding and resources, lack of accessible training, production, presentation, and exhibition oppportunities, and lack of understanding of our crip time, space and methods, to create platforms to support our success today.

We hope that we will continue to follow your example, making and holding space to support the practice and the pride of future generations of d/Deaf, Disabled, and Neurodiverse artists, as we work together to break through the barriers that still exist for our community.

This website may contain stories of discrimination, insitutionalisation, and violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of d/Deaf, Disabled, and Neurodivergent people.