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Social media, inclusion and accessibility
Fortunately, we live in an era when it is no longer acceptable to overlook and ignore our social responsibilities when it comes to diversity, inclusion and accessibility. Social media plays an increasingly large role in our everyday lives, so it's important to ensure...
Autism: Not less, but so much more
I’ve often written about the matter-of-fact process of discovering that my twins were autistic - what we did next, how we did it and the support services we were lucky enough to access. But what I have not yet written about, because, quite frankly, it makes me...
Adult autism diagnoses: Why, what’s the point?
There has been a renewed wave of interest in autism when the spotlight was shone on TV presenter and model Melanie Sykes and TV personality and National Autistic Society ambassador Christine McGuiness, who both recently revealed that they had, in their adult years,...
Randa Safieh interviewed by Reuters on Palestinian Hip-hop at Leighton House Museum
When you say to me, “you are not like the rest of them”
When you say to me, “you are not like the rest of them”, it troubles me because your understanding of race/ethnicity/culture/heritage doesn’t take into account all the shades of grey and richness that exist outside of your own. I appreciate your sentiment, but what...