Ennoble

05/10/2018

Enjoyed afternoon tea with Jennifer Brain at the Whangarei Town Basin. Talked about Deaf Aotearoa's early days - amazing pioneers they were with their vision which is still relevant today

27/09/2018

International Week of Deaf People incorporating International Sign Language Day - doing our bit to promote the message with JPF Productions :)

Thank you good people for being part of this too!

08/12/2016

"It is not a question of patronizing philanthropy towards disabled people. They do not need the patronage of the non-disabled. It is not for them to adapt to the dominant and dominating world of the so-called non-disabled. It is for us to adapt our understanding of a common humanity; to learn of the richness of how human life is diverse; to recognize the presence of disability in our human midst as an enrichment of our diversity." ~ Nelson Mandela

29/07/2016

https://ennobling.wordpress.com/2016/07/29/one-weekend-two-conferences/

One weekend in Christchurch. Two education conferences. Two excellent events, yet so different. For us, the drive from one to the other (and return) involved, flipping our minds 180 degrees in o…

29/06/2016

https://ennobling.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/day-time-tv/

Parliament TV is trialling captions 2.30 to 3.30 this week. Yesterday it didn’t work, today it took a while to start then boom! When I told hearing people about this they look at me with a ‘duh’ e…

10/06/2016

Tess has posted some important questions in this blog - what do you think?

http://community.scoop.co.nz/2016/06/are-we-ok-with-this/

26/05/2016

https://www.facebook.com/SRDisability/posts/1115051245202951

A new charter to significantly improve living conditions of persons with disabilities during emergencies has been endorsed at the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey.

20/03/2016

03/02/2016

I love this picture!  It is a great way to explain part of what I am doing in here in ennoble - promoting language use and mindset to demonstrate an inclusive community.  Do refer me to those who

29/01/2016

Am reading 'Claiming Disability' - an older book, still very relevant. Thought this summed us well:

'we are all bound together, not by a list of collective impairments but by the social and political circumstances that have forged us as a group. We have found one another and found a voice to express not despair at our fate but outrage of our social positioning. ... our impairments/symptoms are part of the dailiness of life. They exist, and have existed in all communities throughout time. What we rail against are the strategies used to deprive us of rights, opportunity and the pursuit of pleasure'.

24/01/2016

Two fantastic books! Which one do I read first? Heads or Tails?

Disability Rights Monitoring and Social Change. Building power out of evidence.

Claiming Disability Knowledge and Identity.

Leechin Heng Huhana Hickey