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Challenging stereotypes of people with learning disabilities

Explore the voices and photographs of people with and without learning disabilities who have worked with creative arts company Heart n Soul over the last 30 years.

  • Article

“People see the disability but forget the ability”

I’m a disabled Asian woman, and mother of four. I’m trying to show people that we have to talk about disability if we want things to change.

  • Article

Performing my disability

Caroline Butterwick explores the idea of disability as performative, and the pressure to act out what we think others expect.

  • Article

Disability, education and prejudice

In the 1960s and 1970s, thalidomide survivors had to fight for a proper education. If they weren’t brought up in institutions, they were often viewed as objects of curiosity, encountering verbal and sometimes physical abuse, both at school and in the world beyond.

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Images

  • Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.
  • A group portrait of black and white people of mixed races with a disabled man in a wheelchair at the centre; representing an advertisement for the AIDS Life Line in South Africa. Lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • A man with crutches sits in despair in front of a blueprint for a penny-farthing wheelchair. Colour lithograph after O. Kacher, 19--.
  • A man with crutches sits in despair in front of a blueprint for a penny-farthing wheelchair. Colour lithograph after O. Kacher, 19--.
  • A young woman with a short fringe, showing signs of mental deficiency. Photograph by J. Davis.
  • A woman spoon-feeding a man while he is on the toilet, perhaps as one would a child. Etching by D. Deuchar (?).
  • A woman spoon-feeding a man while he is on the toilet, perhaps as one would a child. Etching by D. Deuchar (?).
  • The seven sons of Lara take vengeance on Doña Lambra's servant for insulting Gonzalo Gomez: they kill the servant in front of Doña Lambra and smear her cloak in his blood. Etching by A. Tempesta after O. Vaenius.
  • Brain of a "European male idiot" aged 12 years: four figures. Lithograph by E.M. Williams after H. Watkins, 1864.
  • Brain of a "European female idiot" aged 42 years: four figures. Lithograph by E.M. Williams after H. Watkins, 1864.
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Events

  • Discussion

A Different Kind of Future with Heart n Soul

Online
Available to watch
  • Auto-captioned
  • British Sign Language
  • Relaxed
  • Discussion

Meds in Music

The Forum
Past

Part of Heart n Soul

  • Relaxed
  • Discussion

What is Normal?

The Studio
Past

Part of Heart n Soul

  • Relaxed
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