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Rights Not Charity

Disabled activists have used banners throughout history to communicate messages of identity, pride, unity and justice, embracing banners as a form of protest like other social movements. The document explores this history through protest banners and political artwork from disabled people's rights movements, examining banners and textiles from organizations fighting for causes like accessibility, opposition to charity models, and government cuts. It also looks at art installations and exhibitions relating to disability rights and activism.

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Rights Not Charity

Disabled activists have used banners throughout history to communicate messages of identity, pride, unity and justice, embracing banners as a form of protest like other social movements. The document explores this history through protest banners and political artwork from disabled people's rights movements, examining banners and textiles from organizations fighting for causes like accessibility, opposition to charity models, and government cuts. It also looks at art installations and exhibitions relating to disability rights and activism.

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Rights Not Charity - Protest Textiles and Disability Activism

Common Threads Press 2023 ISBN 9781916323469 Acqn 33740


Pb 15x21cm 52pp col ills £9

Textiles have long been part of the fabric of disabled people's lives and history. In common with
banners of the women's suffrage movement and trade unions, disabled activists have embraced
banners as a form of protest and resistance, communicating messages about identity, pride, unity
and justice. Rights Not Charity tells the stories of these banners.

Curator Gill Crawshaw explores this history through the protest banners and political artwork of
disabled people's rights movements, taking in political responses to charity, accessibility, and
government cuts, among other causes. The zine considers banners and protest textiles from a
wide range of disabled people's organisations and demonstrations, including DAN: the Disabled
People's Direct Action Network, Disabled People Against Cuts, the National League of the Blind,
and The Campaign for Accessible Transport. It also explores art installations such as 'DWP
Deaths Make Me Sick' and exhibitions such as the People's History Museum's 'Nothing About Us
Without Us'.

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