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It's rare disease day every single day for me. 🦓 Today is no different but what IS awesome about today and this week?! #Awareness!! Awareness means people understand my struggles better, it means the difference between being judged and shouted at and someone understanding and showing compassion. It helps. Keep helping. Sarah Wingfield ❤️  Independent Disability Advocate  #disabilityinclusion #strongertogether #disability #disabilityawareness #disabilitysupport #disabilityrights #rarediseaseawareness  Alt text: A pastel rainbow kawaii quote image about Rare Disease awareness. At the top, colourful text reads: “It’s rare disease day every single day for me. 🦓 Today is no different but what IS awesome about today and this week?! #Awareness!!” In the centre, a cute chibi girl with pink and purple hair wears a zebra-striped hoodie and holds a heart. Beside her is a smiling cartoon zebra with a green bow. Awareness ribbons in different colours float around them, along with he...

This is what dignity in action looks like. 🎯 Scotland becoming the first nation to provide free sanitary products nationwide isn’t “extra” — it’s basic human decency. Period poverty is real. It impacts education, work, health and self-esteem. No one should have to choose between food and menstrual products. Access to sanitary products is about equality. It’s about safeguarding health. It’s about removing shame from something completely natural. When governments recognise that menstruation is not a luxury, but a biological reality, that’s progress. Dignity should never depend on your bank balance. Sarah Wingfield  Independent Disability Advocate  #PeriodPoverty #DignityForAll #HealthEquity #WomensRights #Scotland #StrongerTogether KawaiiDollDecora.uk Alt text: Square advocacy graphic with a glittery pink, purple and teal bokeh border. In the centre is an image of pink sanitary pads and tampons stacked neatly. A circular inset photo shows a group of people at a rally holding si...

Disabilities Are Not Swearwords. There is something deeply unsettling about watching adults weaponise medical conditions as insults. Recently, in a local Darlington group, children’s behaviour was criticised by throwing around real diagnoses — including Foetal Alcohol Syndrome — as if they were punchlines. As if they were shorthand for “bad”, “feral”, “wrong”. Let me say this plainly: Using conditions like Foetal Alcohol Syndrome as an insult is not commentary. It is dehumanising . It reinforces stigma that real children live with every single day. And when adults model that behaviour publicly, it normalises cruelty . Disabilities are NOT swearwords. Diagnoses are NOT insults. If children behave harmfully, address the behaviour. Call out racism. Call out aggression. Call out misconduct. But do not drag disabled children into it as collateral damage. Because when someone says, “What in the foetal alcohol syndrome…” as shorthand for bad behaviour, what they are really communicating is ...

I’ve just had to block an artist I previously supported because they refuse to understand the role AI plays in disability and accessibility. You’re absolutely entitled to your opinion. What you’re not entitled to do is weaponise that opinion to attack disabled communities — especially while actively using AI-merged platforms yourself. That’s not principle. That’s hypocrisy. AI, for many disabled people, is not a shortcut. It’s an access tool. It bridges gaps that the world still refuses to close. If you want to critique technology, do it honestly. But don’t disguise hostility toward disabled access as some kind of artistic purity stance. Find a new excuse — because targeting disabled people for using accessibility tools isn’t it. Accessibility is not something I should ever have to publicly justify. Yet somehow, the most uninformed and judgemental voices are the loudest in demanding disabled people be scrutinised to “prove” what we need. I’m not participating in that. If you don’t unde...

My Not-To-Do list: Well… that wasn’t on my to-do list. 🙃 I fell and twisted my ankle. One minute I was walking, next minute gravity said “absolutely not” and now I’m wrapped up in towels like a poorly little burrito. 😅 It’s sore. It’s frustrating. And if you know me, you know resting is not exactly my favourite hobby. I like being productive. I like moving. I like doing. But sometimes the body makes the decision for you. So I’m elevating it. Wrapping it. Being gentle. Letting it heal. 🩷 This is your reminder (and clearly mine too): Rest is not weakness. Slowing down is not failure. Healing is still progress. If I’m a little quieter while I recover, that’s why. Just sending love to my ankle and hoping it behaves itself. 💗✨ — Sarah Wingfield ❤️  #Healing #RestIsProductive #DisabledAndDetermined #KawaiiDollDecora #InConcreteIBloom Alt text: A close-up photo of a hand holding a square card against a soft, pale background. On the card is a kawaii-style cartoon illustration of an ank...

Inclusion - Sarah Wingfield. I didn’t create these slides because inclusion is trendy. I created them because I have lived the absence of it. Inclusion is not a corporate buzzword. It is the difference between someone thriving and someone shrinking. Between someone walking in freely and someone hovering at the door wondering if they’re allowed to exist. Inclusion is not about “helping them”. It is about dismantling the invisible walls we pretend aren’t there. It is about asking: Who did we forget when we built this? Who has to ask for permission to belong? Who is exhausted from explaining their humanity? We talk about ramps and captions and policies — and we should. But inclusion is also the silence in a room when someone speaks their truth and nobody rolls their eyes. It is believing lived experience without demanding proof. It is not punishing disagreement. It is not weaponising power. It is choosing growth over ego. Inclusion is emotional as well as physical. It is safety. It is dig...