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Peter Torres Fremlin
@desibility.bsky.social
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Covering world news with a disability lens. I love languages, questions and places I've lived 🇬🇧🇧🇷🇧🇩🇪🇬 Writing Disability Debrief: https://www.disabilitydebrief.org/signup
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · Dec 5
I make a newsletter on international disability news and I need your help.

The two biggest challenges for a project like this are visibility and financing.

Please share, to help others find it.

And if you're comfortable, it runs on pay-what-you-can.

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Photo of Peter, a white man nearly 40, sitting in wheelchair and engaging smile. He works on a laptop, and wears a green hoody with a disabled-gingerbreadman theme. He has short dark curly hair, glasses and a trimmed beard.
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GiannaMarie @giannamarie.bsky.social · 13h
I don’t rep GNs, but I’m really rooting for Rachel to get signed! I loved her recent essay in the Disability Debrief newsletter and would love to see more people have access to her art!
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Rachel DL @racheldl.bsky.social · 13h
18-yr-old Rachel wants to enjoy college like her peers–seemingly housing & food secure, with family. Instead, an ex-homeless runaway youth, Rachel is thrust into adulthood on her own. To survive, she must rebuild community & confront a dark secret at the root of her new independence. #DVpit #GN #DIS
Two graphic novel pages, representing rachel scribbling in a notebook a cartoon about food insecurity rachel at university health services, the doctor inquiring why she doesn't have health insurance
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 14h
thanks!
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 1d
love the newsletter! always a great mix and well-explained
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 5d
looking forward!
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 5d
oh how exciting!! always appreciate your recs and loved the first seasons of this
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 6d
Thanks so much El! Always appreciate so much your reading and kind words 🙏🏼
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 7d
"The disability movement has come together as one of the strongest voices defending human rights in Argentina."

The disability emergency in Argentina shows the dangers disabled people face from the far-right. It's great to see how they can be resisted.

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A chainsaw to disability rights
How Argentina’s far-right government is attacking disability benefits and the disability movement is fighting back
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks so much Clara! These were compiled by @ainekc.bsky.social
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Clara Paillard @claraunite.bsky.social · 9d
So far the best list of resources I've found about the intersection of disability and climate justice! ♿️✊️🌏

Thanks to @desibility.bsky.social for compiling this!
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Climate and disability resource guide: understanding
Disabled perspectives, climate activism, and resources for education and research.
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 9d
Imagine... the year is 2050, and disability rights are real.

Send us a letter to tell us what this future looks like.

We'll publish our five favourite entries and pay £100 for each one. The deadline is 1st November 2025.

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Letters from the Future
An Open Call for Disability Science Fiction
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 12d
Thanks Katri! We've already started getting some moving submissions, imagining a moment outside of our current fights...

(and btw I asked Rob to share w LFTW storytelling competition winners also)
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César Giménez @cgimenezs.bsky.social · 12d
Missed reading the Debrief, it has so many issues to keep thinking about. Nyuki wrote on education & inclusion back in February. She wonders about inclusion in education and I want to think assimilation, normalcy, and much more. www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/one-...
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · Feb 12
“I wish we practiced ‘inclusion’ differently. I no longer want my students to be included as a favour or out of pity. I no longer want them to be included if it means they need to change themselves to fit in. It is not inclusion if you have to walk on eggshells and always fear being excluded.”
Illustration of a window onto a classroom with a group of Black children rigidly studying, and others on the outside noisy and restless. Inside the classroom the students lean over their books and the blackboard has "inclusive education" written on it. Outside the children look noisy and climb as if into the class from a bench and the window pane. A bee flies around them.
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Andrew Pulrang @apulrang.bsky.social · 16d
Disability Thinking Weekday - Monday, September 22, 2025 - Rehabilitation, AI biases, and COVID vaccine access

#Disability #Disabled

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9/22/25 - Rehabilitation, AI biases, and COVID vaccine access
Good afternoon! And welcome to Autumn. It's my favorite season, weather-wise, here in Northeastern New York State. The leaves aren't anywhere near full color yet. When they are, I may share a photo ...
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 12d
such a fun and interesting day - thanks for hosting us Lucy!
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 12d
amazing, congrats Vera!
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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · 14d
What a much-needed hope-filled call to reimagine our future in this week's @desibility.bsky.social brief. Take a look and submit: www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/reim...
Ability to reimagine ourselves
An open call for science fiction, breathing together, and more from the mailbag
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 15d
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Rachel DL @racheldl.bsky.social · 21d
Excited to share my new piece with @desibility.bsky.social! It's about my experience in a physical rehabilitation hospital, shame, and, the ways that for-profit healthcare emphasizes individual responsibility for failing health - to my own detriment.
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 21d
“Independence was the supposed goal, and the hospital would justify withdrawing their costly care by pretending I had achieved it.”

In today's Disability Debrief, @racheldl.bsky.social exposes the perils of for-profit healthcare in the US.

www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/get-...
Get set for independence
Why I left the rehab hospital more disabled than when I arrived
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 21d
“Independence was the supposed goal, and the hospital would justify withdrawing their costly care by pretending I had achieved it.”

In today's Disability Debrief, @racheldl.bsky.social exposes the perils of for-profit healthcare in the US.

www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/get-...
Get set for independence
Why I left the rehab hospital more disabled than when I arrived
www.disabilitydebrief.org
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Accessibility in the News @a11ynews.bsky.social · 23d
Asking for forgiveness www.disabilitydebrief.org/debrief/aski... #a11y
Asking for forgiveness
Hamburg signs “sorry”, and a tour of the latest news from 40+ countries
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 23d
I need your help to reach a new milestone for Disability Debrief: 4,000 weekly readers.

We're 10-20 folk short of reaching that landmark, for a newsletter that publishes global disability stories you won't read anywhere else.

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Sign-up to get a disability lens on world news
An engaging weekly guide for the disability community and disability curious.
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · 28d
helpful and interesting review, thank you Naomi!
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · Sep 5
looks very helpful, thanks!
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · Sep 4
thanks!
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Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social · Sep 4
“Your disability can be your greatest opportunity to learn about the world.” – @sophielmorgan.bsky.social

In this edition we learn about doorknobs, ableism, and the pressures of authoritarian regimes. (Plus an electric wheelchair-using sheep)

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Greatest opportunity to learn
Navigating power, relationships, hostile doorknobs, and ordinary human failings
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