Natalia Guala: “People with disabilities are actors in the economy, not objects of charity”

Natalia Guala Beathyate (Buenos Aires, 42 years old) knows that social barriers expand when she has a disability. She was born with a congenital malformation of the retina and, although she studied in a conventional school, when she entered university, in Uruguay, she faced the objections of some teachers: “You can’t take exams! How are we going to do with you?” Continue reading

BERLIN // Ignacio Rodríguez dreamed of travelling since childhood. Today, after years of running in Argentine prisons, he travels international stages with The Days Outside, a theatrical work by the Argentine director Lola Arias in which, together with four cis women and a trans woman, he narrates in the first person what it is like to get out of prison and look for his life in a country like Argentina. In his history of precariousness, struggle…

Faced with declining revenues and rising expenditures, departments are forced to tighten their belts. They cut in extra-legal budgets, i.e. in measures that go beyond their legal obligations. Including those that are important, even vital, for people with disabilities. Sale time for [...] This article How departments save on the backs of people with disabilities has appeared first on Facing - All the news about disability.