Where others tolerate dysfunction, we look for solutions:
Where others tolerate dysfunction, we look for solutions:
I've just been made an example of by policies meant to protect instead of harm. Hate campaigns against me have influenced decisions to silence me as a disability advocate and an independent one at that (not affiliated with any organisation) which means that their social media policies don't even legally reach me to be used against me to silence me. What's been sabotaged? A podcast about employment and disability. We speak up and out about our experiences because our experiences matter - but when policies and protocols are misused to silence the important work people like myself do to use our voice to help other disabled individuals and are misused without genuine appeal processes or policies being specified or shared - it does more harm than good and tells us that some disabled voices matter more than most, which is unacceptable. And to think this behaviour has been endorsed by a county council to further ostracise and blacklist an independent disability advocate - it makes us question what the agendas of our systems really are.
Sarah Wingfield
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