Tag: paraplegia

Aboriginal Race Disability Life Journey
05/08/2023

Two with mobility condition of paraplegia. One got much more due to his “disadvantaged” ‘Aboriginal’ socially constructed race heritage

The two men in the photos in this blog are Kevin Coombs and Bruno Secondo Moretti. Both were born in Australia in 1941. Both obtained the physical mobility impairment of paraplegia before adulthood. Both came from non-English cultural heritage. Bruno’s parents had immigrated from Italy and English was a second spoken language by Bruno. Bruno Moretti deserved to be recognised in a way that he […]

Disability Life Journey
01/04/2023

Human dignity means valuing and appreciating humanness.

Human dignity means valuing and appreciating humanness no matter how quirky or misaligned a human function is. A pride parade of smugness that every human being functions as a human being no matter how quirky or misaligned that function is. Acknowledgement each and every soul is born into human existence with a connected innate grace that makes them equal in the eyes of the creator […]

Australia Disability Life Journey
25/03/2023

Without me, there is no we…

Without me, there is no we. Here we have a human problem that cannot be solved by any written legislation. Just image, if you care to, how much happened to my husband in the 65 years he lived with paraplegia, and to me in the 43 years we shared together. The physical exertion and pain, the financial struggle, the emotional trauma, the mental anguish. The […]