Our Right to Thrive: Webinar with Julie Farrell

Our Right to Thrive: Webinar with Julie Farrell

Our Right to Thrive is a unique poetry/written word project for disabled writers led by disabled artist/ musician and poet Ivan Riches. The project provides an opportunity for disabled people to further explore the disabled community’s experiences of ableism, attitudinal barriers and discrimination from a personal and political perspective.

In this webinar Julie Farrell will talk about the lived experience of disabling barriers from a creative, neurodivergent perspective. She will offer a focus on issues of being heard and recognised, talking about issues of self-advocacy, self-determination, support structures. She will also talk about how the neurodivergent experience and outlook influences and shapes society, referencing the Inklusion guide and the impact it has had on addressing barriers for neurodivergent writers.

Julie Farrell is a writer, activist and Co-Founder of The Inklusion Guide: a kickass guide to making literature events accessible to disabled people. Her work has seen her listed as one of The Bookseller’s Top 150 Most Influential People in Publishing. Julie's writing explores our relationship with nature, and how it helps us to process our grief, loss, and nostalgia in relation to family, identity and the planet.

Our Right to Thrive is a project for disabled writers aimed at nurturing creativity, improving communication with the disabled community, sharing experience of living with disabling barriers, and fostering strength to better respond to discrimination. The project aims to empower our online community of disabled people: nurturing creativity, improving communication, sharing experience of living with disabling barriers, fostering strength to better respond to discrimination.

Structure of workshop

• 14:00 -14:05 Introduction & Housekeeping
• 14:05 - 14:40 Presentation from Julie Farrell
• 14:40 - 15:00 Questions & Discussion

The webinar will be recorded with BSL and a live captioner.

Look out for further webinars in this series

We’ve a range of disabled leaders coming from different aspects of the lived experience of disability. Please look out for announcements to sign up for the next webinar planned in this series.

• Paul Wilshaw: Understanding the needs and provision of the learning disabled community - Date: Friday 3rd October 2025

Keep up to date with the project and view previous webinars in the series on the 'Our Right to Thrive' blog on the Disability Arts Online Website.

Previous Webinars

• Mik Scarlet: The Importance of the Social Model in Disability Pride and Overcoming Barriers. The Co-CEO of PHAB gives an overview of the disabled people’s movement with a focus on how the disabled experience and outlook influences and shapes society. Mik Scarlet is a London-based, award winning broadcaster, journalist and inclusive design expert with a history of involvement as a disabled musician and activist.

Accessibility information

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