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Painfully Ablesit: Deafness

Memorials and Movements: Challenging Complicated Characters

Far-Right Israeli Group Marches through Damascus Gate

Waves

Painfully Ableist: Disability X Fashion

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Painfully Ablesit: Deafness

By Joya Choudhury 5 hours ago
  • Culture and Lifestyle
  • Features

Memorials and Movements: Challenging Complicated Characters

By Clera Rodrigues 1 week ago
  • Features

Far-Right Israeli Group Marches through Damascus Gate

By Joya Choudhury 4 weeks ago
  • Expression

Waves

By Muskaan Aleeza Admani 1 month ago
  • Style and Beauty

Painfully Ableist: Disability X Fashion

By Joya Choudhury 1 month ago

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This fortnight: Expression

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Waves

By Muskaan Aleeza Admani 1 month ago
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The Big Blue

By Mari Adia 3 months ago
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Rose-Colored Glasses

By Kate Abrielle 3 months ago
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Failure

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Painfully Ablesit: Deafness

By Joya Choudhury 5 hours ago

Watch as Iqbal Hasan thrives in an ableist society while Joya interviews him. 

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Memorials and Movements: Challenging Complicated Characters

By Clera Rodrigues 1 week ago

‘Great’ Britain’s blind glorification of imperialists into public statues is finally being confronted.

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Far-Right Israeli Group Marches through Damascus Gate

By Joya Choudhury 4 weeks ago

Israelis have marched across into the Muslim and Palestinian quarters waving an Israeli flag.

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Waves

By Muskaan Aleeza Admani 1 month ago

If life is an ocean, waves of highs and lows, then we can learn to embrace that it’s okay not to be okay, that it’s fine not to be fine.

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Painfully Ableist: Disability X Fashion

By Joya Choudhury 1 month ago

An article on how to style your wheelchair, crutches and hearing aids.

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The Big Blue

By Mari Adia 3 months ago

A take on inescapable depression

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Rose-Colored Glasses

By Kate Abrielle 3 months ago

The experience of being an international student in a foreign space

  • Style and Beauty

Rosehip Oil: The Saviour of My Night-time Routine

By Humaira Patel 3 months ago

The second you heard oil, you probably think ‘oh no my pores will get clogged’,

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Failure

By Muskaan Aleeza Admani 3 months ago

The experience of struggling each morning, dealing with the anxiety of thinking you are a failure.

  • Expression

Drowning Butterfly

By Kate Abrielle 3 months ago

A poem portraying the struggle of finding relief during anxiety attacks

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  • Once again, hold back on the spending of things you do not need or things you are only buying for the sake of buying. ⁠
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Resolution #6⁠
To not give into tacky consumerism.⁠
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  • If you've heard the rumours then you know this is an event we've been looking forward to. Join us and be a part of this fantastic fashion show! 🧥👗👚👘

We need your help to ensure it's success. 
Looking for voluntary:
 • Make up artists 👨🏽‍🎨
 • Hairstylists 💇🏾‍♀️
 • Models 🕴🏽
 • Backstage aid 👥

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DIASPORA SPEAKS is hosting a 
Fashion Show 

WE NEED VOLUNTARY:
Makeup artists
Hairstylists 
Models
Backstage aids

Click link in bio to sign up!

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  • Our first event of the year and we can't wait! 📅

Members are free to come along and join us in some quizzing, discussion, debates and FUN. 🥁

Location, tickets for non-members, link to Microsoft teams: TBC

Dm us with any questions and any accessibility aid you may need. 😊

ALSO, buy a membership through our link in bio.

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An in person Diaspora Speaks event. 

Friday 25th February 5-8 pm (BST). 
Disability stereotypes. 
Quiz, discussion, fun. 
Location Bancoft 3.27
Members free
Non members TBC

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  • Spending is very easy and so very, very, tempting. But push back the impulse. Your future self will thank you. ⁠
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Resolution #5⁠
Budget more.⁠
Save me.
  • Sometimes peer pressure or our desire to help others may not always help us. ⁠
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Resolution #4 Say no to things or people when you get uncomfortable.
  • Apologies to everyone who was looking for forward to the Disability Stereotype event. We unfortunately have had to postpone this event. 😔

But, do not worry we will reschedule this soon! 😊

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