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Welcome to the World of Tomorrow – one of your making?

September 10, 2013 by Mik Scarlet

Recently I have written several articles for the online publication The Huffington Post and the disability magazine PosAbility exploring many current issues of great importance to disabled people like me. Much of the press has also covered the very same issues, gaining views from from all sides of the political

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: access, benefits, comment, Disability, engineering, futurism, planning, social care, social model

Sex: Are We Really So Different?

April 25, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

I read the article “Sex: some facts of life” by Kirsty Liddiard in the April issue of Disability Now with great interest. I once trained to go into social work, with the aim of working with newly disabled people. I also recently decided to change my studies from a Psychology

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: comment, confidence, disability now, fetish, relationships, sex, sexuality, social model, sociology

Sill Ill

March 8, 2012 by Mik Scarlet

What a crazy month March has turned out to be. I had planned to write my second travelogue, about a recent weekend away in Penzance, but I will save that for later. Instead I wanted to write something about why March has not been a high point of 2012 for

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, enjoying life, illness, infection, medical model, sieze the day, social model

Out of Touch?

March 1, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

I regularly run a session of disability awareness training for various companies, and am about to venture into training for media companies. I got the gig after I passed on some comments about language and disability to a TV production company. But before I begin advising them, I must admit

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, discrimination, media, paralympics, portrayal, presenting, representation, social model, Television, TV

Disability & TV – The Mik Scarlet Lecture – Part 2

December 4, 2010 by Mik Scarlet

In my last blog I hope I helped to explain why most disabled people find the use of the words brave and courageous in television output offensive, and why these words can have an effect the the mental health of anyone during the process of readjustment that occurs after coming

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The Paralympics, the Portrayal and another word beginning with P.

August 30, 2010 by Mik Scarlet

This week all of TV land has marked two years to go before the launch of the Paralympics with massive coverage of the event. Most London news programs spent the week featuring stories on Paralympic sports and the start of the build up to the historic event, and Channel 4

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