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What is Disabled Joy? And how do we create more of it?

Disabled Joy began as a solo artist commission with the Raze Collective.

The commission invited Georgia Bondy to explore joy not as something separate from disability, but as something deeply rooted within it. Not despite disability. Because of it. Through it.

That initial artistic exploration asked a simple but expansive question:

What is disabled joy?

From there, the work grew.

What started inside the studio became conversations, performances, and collective spaces. It evolved into a wider project led through Well Adapt, bringing disabled people together to reflect on pleasure, creativity, resistance, access, community and pride.

But at its core, the question remains unchanged.

Disabled Joy isn’t about ignoring barriers.

It’s about recognising the fullness of disabled life.

It’s about making space for pleasure, softness, celebration and imagination.

For now, we want to return to the beginning.

What does Disabled Joy mean to you?

Where do you experience it?

How do we create more of it together?

We’re sharing a call-out for disabled people to contribute reflections, voice notes and stories as part of the next chapter.

To share your story, click the LINK IN MY BIO

Because Disabled Joy started as an artistic question.

Now it’s a collective one.

Are you part of a Deaf or Disabled People’s Organisation that wants to connect, collaborate, and influence change?

DPO Forum England brings together Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations from across England run by and for Disabled people to influence policy, campaign for rights, and support one another.

If your organisation isn’t currently part of the Forum, this could be a space to be heard, or to help amplify the voices of others.

Well Adapt provides the Secretariat for DPO Forum England, supporting the Forum to stay connected, coordinated, and Disabled-led. This work is made possible through funding from Disability Rights UK.

👉 If you’re interested in getting involved, or want to find out more, please contact us.

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A gorgeous evening with a a gorgeous person. Thank you to everyone who cosied up with us last night to hear the iconic muse over where she finds her ! 💕

Enjoy these pics of us gazing adoringly and thoughtfully as artists often do ✨

Shoutout to for hosting us and to all our lovely guests who made the evening feel so special.

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Image Description: two black and white photos of Little Peaches and Georgia Bondy. Little Peaches is aa slim white person wearing glasses, a black lace shirt with accented shoulder pads, black leather lace up boots and long brown hair down resting on her left shoulder. She is sitting cross legged in a wheelchair with her hands clasped at her knee with a microphone standing near her. To her left is Georgia Bondy, a brown person with short Afro cups, wearing a velvet dress, tights and ankle boots. She is holding a microphone with her right hand and gazing at Little Peaches proudly in both photos.

Join us for Disabled Joy on 7th Nov at Liverpool Unity Theatre Bar

Thrilled to finally announce that the award-winning dancer and burlesque icon, will be joining us in on Thursday 7th November! Creator off and international sensation.

We’ll be taking over the bar and filling it with pure, unapologetic and ridiculously fabulous Disabled Joy.
Not based on Liverpool? We will ALSO be taking over Zoom for all the low-spoonies and non-Liverpudlians - we got you! 💛

Tickets to attend this in-person or online are both available in our bio.

We can’t wait to see you there! ✨

If you have any questions, concerns or need a little help booking a ticket, feel free to DM us.

Image Description: A black and white photo of Little Peaches, a white woman in a wheelchair, smiling with her head tilted upwards and her arms outstretched by her sides against a backdrop of the disability pride flag (black, red, yellow, white, blue, green). She is wearing a black neckpiece outlined by shells, fishnet stockings and ni**le pasties. Bold text reads: On Disabled Joy with Little Peaches, Award-Winning Dancer, Burlesque Icon and Teacher. A white banner at the bottom displays the logos of Well Adapt, Joseph Roundtree Foundation and SIC. The event is taking place at on Friday 7th November at the Unity Theatre in Liverpool. (continued in comments)

HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO SPEAKER AMELIA () for this incredible achievement!

If you haven’t already, do your self a favour and go listen to on .

Ethics, pleasure and accessibility wrapped up in delightful 40 minute segments narrated by the fantastic Amelia Lander-Cavallo.

Why not congratulate Amelia in person on Thursday 24 October at our event in Sheffield? Online live stream also available. Link to both in our bio ✨

BIRMINGHAM! We’re coming for you, and we’ll be joined by the incredible ✨

Christopher will be joining us at the incredible .co.uk conference on Tuesday 29th October at 3:15pm. Join us in person OR online. Links to both are available in the bio.

Christopher Samuel is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in identity and disability politics.
Often echoing the many facets of his own lived experience as a Black disabled man, his work tells stories, highlighting the often unseen experiences of his day to day life and those of others in similar circumstances.
His practice includes small detailed ink drawings, film, print, audio, research, and large installations.

Samuel works alongside galleries, museums, archives and other institutions to address missing representation in our cultural spaces.