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‘Disability, Gender, and The Environment’ on 24 March 2022 , 6pm GMT. 

Sisters of Frida and the National Council of Women of Great Britain are delighted to invite you to an informal discussion titled ‘Disability, Gender, and The Environment’ on 24 March 2022 at 6pm GMTWe will have BSL interpretation and captioning at the live event. 

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Please sign up via Eventbrite here as we would love to stay in touch. Event details and registration can be found at this link.

Deaf and Disabled women need to be at the table discussing important issues, and the environment encapsulates several areas which deserve significant attention. 

Please get in touch if you have any further questions, or have difficulty with accessing the event. Contact email is hello@sisofrida.org.

blue background with light blue clouds at the top of the page. In bold font, it reads ‘Discussion’ with ’18:00 GMT (London) on Zoom’ underneath. Main title reads ‘Disability, Gender, and the Environment’ in slanted text. There is a blue and green image of the globe with an infographic in the centre of a wheelchair user in a pinstripe suit and a woman dancing. In slanted font, there is ‘24th March 2022’. Below, in bold white text, the main description reads: ‘Engaging with CSW66’s priority theme of climate change, environmental and disaster risk reduction, Sisters of Frida and the National Council of Women of Great Britain host an online discussion to consider how these matters affect Deaf and Disabled women. In this session, we welcome participants from all parts of the globe who have different lived experiences to share their perspectives and contribute to policy discussions around how Deaf and Disabled women are affected by green issues. Captioning and BSL interpretation are provided’.

Panelists

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Khairani Barokka

Khairani is a Minang-Javanese writer and artist from Jakarta, whose work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anti colonial praxis. Among her honours, she has been Modern Poetry in Translation‘s Inaugural Poet-in-Residence, a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, and Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing (UK). Okka’s books include Indigenous Species (Tilted Axis) and Stairs and Whispers: D/deaf and Disabled Poets Write Back (as co-editor, Nine Arches). Her latest book is Ultimatum Orangutan (Nine Arches), shortlisted for the Barbellion Prize. A frequent public speaker, Okka’s most recent talk was on eco ableism, for Women of the World Festival 2022 at Royal Festival Hall.

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Asha Hans

 Asha is former Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies at Utkal University India. She is a recent Member Board UN Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund; Member Board Women Enabled International (USA). She is the founder of SMRC a disability organisation  and Women with Disabilities India Network. She has worked with CEDAW and UNCRPD Committee on women with disabilities in India.

Her recent books are 

2021  Engendering Climate Change Learnings from South Asia 

2020 Asha Hans Disability, gender, and the trajectories of power (Japanese edition) by Asha Hans, 

Forthcoming 2022 Forthcoming Disability and Climate Change 

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Rhine Bernardino

Rhine is an artist, independent curator and researcher with a background in filmmaking. They hold an MA Fine Art degree (Sculpture) from the Royal College of Art, for which they were awarded the highly-regarded Abraaj-RCA Innovation Scholarship. Rhine has curated and exhibited their artwork internationally especially in Europe and Asia. They have been invited to take part in several international art residencies and programmes most recently as part of the Australia Arts Council’s Future Leaders Programme, Office of Contemporary Art (OCA) Norway’s International Visitors Programme and Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) research residency in Japan. They have been doing extensive field research and mapping of art collectives, alternative spaces and community-based projects across the globe. In building on this work, they have been looking at a myriad of possibilities of working with communities through art practice in driving societal change and highlighting marginalised voices. 

Harrie Larrington-Spencer

Harrie is a researcher in Healthy Active Cities at the University of Salford and has just submitted her PhD in human geography at the University of Manchester. Harrie’s research and personal interests focus upon sustainability and inclusive active travel and ensuring that the needs of disabled people are centralised within environmentalism. Harrie is a disabled cyclist and (along with her dog Frida) uses social media to demonstrate how brilliant and inclusive cycling can be, as well as highlighting the specific barriers that disabled cyclists face in their everyday travels. Harrie has recently been recognised as one of the Shaw Trust’s Disability Power 100 for her work and activism.

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Carmen Yau

Carmen Yau (Chair) is currently a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Greenwich. As a multi-award-winning Disability x Gender advocate in Asia, Carmen is dedicated to enhancing equality and inclusion for people with disabilities and intersectional women. She touches a range of topics from accessibility and universal design, sexuality and LGBTQ, interpersonal violence, physical and mental health.

As a social work practitioner, Carmen is interested in narrative practice and digital storytelling. She commits to bridge social work theories and practice to the digital era. She explores potential social work practice in the information communication technology context.

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