Stella Young
Stella Young
Stella Jane Youngwas an Australian comedian, journalist and disability rights activist...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth24 February 1982
CountryAustralia
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There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens to their bodies.
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Yooralla, like most disability service organisations, is full of good people who are passionate about the rights of people with disabilities.
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When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.
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Even those among us who are lucky enough to love our jobs would have to admit that at least part of the reason we work is to earn money. In between all this work, we like to eat out at restaurants, go on trips, buy nice things, not to mention pay rent and meet the cost of living.
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Believe me, people with disabilities are just as concerned about benefit fraud as anyone else. Money spent on those who are not in need is money that isn't being spent on vital services to support us in the community.
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When I was seven and watched an episode of 'Beyond 2000' that featured a floating armchair, I thought we'd definitely have one of those by 15, at the latest.
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We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect.
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We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those bodies are considered disabled or not.
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We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled people in our daily lives.
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Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a deep understanding of systemic discrimination and abuse faced by disabled people.
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The Paralympics have for too long been considered the poor cousin of the Olympics. It's always run after the main games and rarely gets anything like the media coverage.
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I tend not to think about living to some grand old age. Then again, I don't think about dying, either.
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Too often, we fall into the trap of thinking 'equal' means 'the same' and that we achieve equality by treating everyone identically.
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The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's that no-one will let us.