Touretteshero's Radical Reading Group

Join Touretteshero for a reading group with a radical twist. We’ll be taking a well-known academic text and making it available in different accessible formats including audio, British Sign Language and Easy Read. The text for this reading group will be Understanding the Social Model of Disability. Past, Present and Future, by Colin Barnes.

If you’re a disabled, neurodivergent or chronically ill person with an interest in connecting to ideas in different ways then join us for this free event and experience the paper in whichever formats suit you best. At the event we will go through the paper together, discuss the ideas and think about how we could share the work with others.

The Radical Reading Group is part of ‘Knowledge for Change’ – a research programme created by Touretteshero that will support and connect disabled thinkers, develop anti-ableist research tools and broaden who gets to create and access knowledge.

Access: 

There will be BSL interpreters. The event will be relaxed which means:

• You can leave and come back in at any time
• A Visual Story using words and pictures to explain what to expect will be sent to you before the event
• Ear defenders and fidget toys will be available for anyone to use.

We know that attention looks different for different bodies and minds. For some people this might involve making noises or moving around. The space will have a range of seating including chairs, bean bags and soft mats – we can move the furniture around to make the space work for us.