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RMIT students living with disability invite you to learn about their language & culture. 🥄

At the We Belong Roundtables, d/Deaf and Disabled students expressed feelings of belonging when allies in their life were aware of disabled concepts and terminology. There was a shared wish for disabled language to become common vocabulary on-campus.

✏️ Here are three words that students might use to express their lived experience and what those words mean to them. 🌥

️ Stay posted! We’ll be sharing more with you soon. ⏱

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🙋🏻 “𝑯𝒆𝒚, 𝒅𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒂 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏?”

Language about identity and disability is evolving.

RMIT uses 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧-𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚𝐮𝐠𝐞 to describe people with disability, while acknowledging that many people with disability prefer to use 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞.

Many who prefer identity-first language may think of their disability as a key part of their identity. A preference for identity first language can indicate that the person wishes to:

• show their connection to Disabled community️ & identity 🌻
• demonstrate their Disability pride ❤️💛🤍💙💚
• emphasize the Social Model of Disability ♿️
If you’re not sure what someoalways ask! It is not considered impolite to ask what your friend prefers. 🫶

You may notice that many creative organisations, such as Arts Access Victoria, have begun using identity first language in response to the Social Model of Disability.

What is the Social Model of Disability??? We’ll get into that in a future post 🔍