Comic draws attention to discriminatory ableist attitudes

8 Nov 2019

Our Enabling Participation of Disabled Young People research project (funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand) worked with disabled young people to understand the factors that enabled or constrained their everyday participation in community life. While urban environments presented many obstacles, participants reported discriminatory ableist attitudes were much more constraining than physical barriers. We collaborated with graphic artist Toby Morris on a comic which has been widely disseminated in print and online, to highlight examples of everyday ableism participants encountered. You can see it here.

Below, a series of large posters of the comic attract attention from people passing by in Symonds Street, central Auckland.