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Belle Owen

@belleowen.bsky.social
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she / her Ostentatious. All things disability justice, access and inclusion. Based on Kaurna Yerta

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Sam Lewis (she/they) 🌈 @battledinosaur.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
thinking about the players and staff of Iran’s women’s national team who woke up in Australia today to the news that their homeland had been bombed. how anyone can focus on sport in the midst of these horrors is beyond me. they play their first game tomorrow.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A group of Muslim men had already received police permission to worship during a Sydney protest before they were disrupted mid-prayer by officers, NSW Police Force confirms.
abc.net.au
Officer gave men permission to pray before they were removed from rally, police say
A group of Muslim men had already received police permission to worship during a Sydney protest before they were disrupted mid-prayer by officers, NSW Police Force confirms.
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Here’s an article from this year with the Australian gun lobby boasting that, with surging gun numbers, it was winning the fight against firearms control advocates. Blame guns. Blame anti-Semitism. Blame terrorists. Do not blame everyday Australians who marched for peace.
theguardian.com
Australia’s gun lobby says it’s ‘winning’ the fight against firearm control as numbers surge
There are now more than 4m guns in the community – almost double the number recorded in the years after the Port Arthur massacre that prompted a national crackdown
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Collective for Racial and Disability Justice @crdjustice.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Rest in power, Alice Wong. A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor. She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased. We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward. Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
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Imani Barbarin @imanibarbarin.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism. They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
mask off for the coal ghouls - 89% of those who die from heat in Australia are disabled people www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
theguardian.com
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee
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Rohan Pearce @rohan-p.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
not sure tasmania should make goblin forest more accessible. sounds like asking for trouble imo.
Goblin Forest now more accessible
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 17/10/2025
Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion a year, enough to quadruple Commonwealth spending on housing. Read the full release below:
australiainstitute.org.au
Progressive patriotism: ACTU’s 25% gas export tax should replace broken PRRT
Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion...
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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merr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 31/07/2023
Me living by the sword: Swords rule Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Are you a legend who wants to support the world’s oldest and largest LGBTQIA+ women's and non-binary football club to create a future where football is safe and welcoming for everyone? Well, I’ve got the petition for you! www.theflyingbats.com/petition @battledinosaur.bsky.social
theflyingbats.com
Sign the Petition- Football Australia: Protect the participation of all women in football. — Flying Bats Football Club
Call on Football Australia to fight discrimination and protect LGBTQIA+ inclusion in football.
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
People call disabled folks “burdens,” but I’ve never met anyone more resourceful, patient, and relentless than sick and disabled people practiced at keeping each other alive.
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
TGIF the actual plague is back, everyone! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
theguardian.com
California resident tests positive for the plague after camping, officials say
South Lake Tahoe resident was probably bitten by infected flea while camping in the area, local health authorities say
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dan @dnbtt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Here's how Poison by Bardot could still win
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
gee, it would be great if disabled people led this organisation, and they advocated for actual disability-led solutions or anything actually effective womensagenda.com.au/latest/is-au... have a read of @lizjackson.bsky.social piece about similar orgs in the US prospect.org/health/2023-...
womensagenda.com.au
Is Australia's biggest productivity solution hiding in plain sight?
At Australian Disability Network, we see a unique opportunity to position disability inclusion as a key driver of productivity growth.
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Our household is definitely in the eating our feelings stage of grief and through this we have invented a new meal: ‘entreat’. It’s the entree little sweet treat you have after dinner, before the proper dessert.
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Today is two weeks since mum left. A week since her funeral. Thankful for this weather keeping me on the couch under blankets and for the people looking out for me.
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I’m on a month-or-two break from work at the moment but this is something I’m proud of that I did before the break.
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
I wrote this last year about the cost of exclusion to disabled people, and it all seems so unchanged www.bluntshovels.au/the-cost-of-...
bluntshovels.au
The cost of exclusion
The world designed for bodies and minds very different to ours, that allows non-disabled people to move about with all the supports and services they need, while we are left at the edges
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
So proud of my friends in Sydney YIMBY for how hard they work, how much shit they take to make a difference. Watch tonight’s Compass for the whole story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
abc.net.au
The deeply personal reasons Australians call themselves YIMBYs
Australia's YIMBY movement is relatively new, but it is making an impact and each member has their own housing struggle spurring them on.
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
“He was disabled and on the NDIS. He was hungry. He was under state guardianship - under the care and protection of the Minister. And it was the state that killed him,” said Debbie Kilroy, a leading prison abolition advocate with the National Network. www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
sbs.com.au
24-year-old disabled Indigenous man dies after police restraint inside Alice Springs supermarket
Witnesses say he stopped breathing while still on the ground. Despite emergency efforts from paramedics, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
25 arrested while protesting GOP Medicaid cuts
"You will kill me."
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Yeah sex is good but have you ever eaten a chocolate chip cookie while Antony Green called that Peter Dutton would lose his seat to a disabled woman?
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
gee, so great to see this celebration of innovation that includes paying disabled people as little as $3 per hour, by a company that got $2m in financing. /s www.smartcompany.com.au/transport-lo...
smartcompany.com.au
How one Australian Disability Enterprise came in clutch for this fashion startup
Clothing adhesive brand Clutch Glue needed help for a massive shipment. Assistance came from the other side of Australia.
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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 30/03/2025
It's amazing how much sympathy and empathy people want for "lost", "adrift" boys and men while we're in the midst of acute patriarchal retrenchment, global trans panic, and women being arrested for miscarriages in red states.
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
End sub-minimum wages now “People with disability can do a job; they just need a bit of help and may take a bit longer to learn,” Bailey says. “But they will get there, like me.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Charlotte’s friends with Down syndrome are paid $3 an hour. It’s legal in Australia - and she’s taking a stand
Down Syndrome Australia launches campaign to encourage politicians to abolish subminimum wage
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Samantha Burns @cheesecakechik.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is a de facto genocide of disabled Americans.
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Using a housing crisis to avoid making accessible changes to standards is kicking a can down a road. Someone will always bear the burden of inaccessibility. What we think we save now, we will always pay for later. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
abc.net.au
National building code changes aim to improve accessibility, but advocates say more could be done
Belle Owen was excited to buy her first home, but it was not exactly perfect – a year in, it still is not fully accessible. There are hopes recent changes to the National Construction Code will improv...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 24/02/2025
"That ‘multibillion’ industry? Well, according to the ATO it’s paid no tax since 2019. It did sell $4 billion worth of fish, yes. But profits went off-shore." Great piece from @amyremeikis.bsky.social, originally published in our fortnightly newsletter, then shared with @thenewdaily.bsky.social.
thenewdaily.com.au
The two decision that show the Albanese government's priorities
In amongst the gestures and everything happening in the world last week, the Albanese government delivered two lessons in power.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.
whitehouse.gov
Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Can someone please make crinkle cut sweet potato crisps?
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Rebecca @bluebec.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
If you're a citizen or resident of Australia, consider signing this petition to end partner income tests in welfare payments #Petition #AusPol
aph.gov.au
e-petitions
e-petitions
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Please let this be a joke. My power wheelchair handles more rugged terrain.
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
For a lot of white people, the COVID lockdowns are the first time in their lives they've ever experienced meaningful restrictions, particularly meaningful government restrictions. So it's really not surprising, in retrospect, that their reaction was to overthrow the government and destroy science.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 10/02/2025
The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.
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James Fitzgerald @jamesfitzjourno.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Give Sam Kerr the keys to Australia.
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Kieran Yap @kieranyap.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Australia’s mainstream media machine has once again proven itself to be a vacuous, hypocritical, self-serving vortex of exponential waste, ironically ensuring that my point was made over and over and over again.”
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rubii • red @lifeofrubii.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A reminder as you gammin dawgs celebrate “Australia Day”. The land you live and work on is Aboriginal land. Always was and always will be 26th of January, is not the date to celebrate.
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Fergie @lucrious.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
only good nazi is a dead nazi
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
ummm, we had an entire royal commission about this, including violence in public. problem is acting on solutions 'Calls to better understand violence against people with disabilities' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
abc.net.au
Calls to better understand violence against people with disabilities, after two public attacks in Hobart
August Vamplew says they had a "run-in" with a "girl gang" on public transport in Hobart, one of two alleged attacks on people with a disability reported so far this year. It's worried experts who say...
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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · 16/01/2025
As disabled people, we live “apocalypse” like no one else does. We breathe “crisis” every day. The ingenuity of our community is key to finding solutions to the climate crisis. In the wake of the devastating LA fires, this speech I gave last month feels needed. open.substack.com/pub/cripoire...
open.substack.com
No Planet Without Us: Disability Ingenuity as Key to Climate Action
In the wake of the devastating LA wildfires of this month, I’ve watched more and more people come to the conclusion that climate change is not coming, it’s here. Embracing disability wisdom will be ke...
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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Galen Buckwalter, 68, shared with me his harrowing tale of being forced to flee the Eaton fire alone on his wheelchair through dark streets and fierce winds, dodging debris as fire neared his home. “In emergencies, disabled people are the last to get services…We have no system. You’re on your own”
theguardian.com
Fleeing the LA fires alone on a wheelchair: ‘I had to take my chances’
An evacuation order when the Eaton fire threatened Galen Buckwalter’s Sierra Madre home triggered a nightmare odyssey through chaotic streets
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source
Screen shot from the movie Mean Girls where a ditzy character is standing in the rain, reporting the weather and saying “there’s a 30 percent chance it’s already raining”
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The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies @disasterstrat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
🚨 SoCal Fires 🔥 1000s evacuated in Pacific Palisades due to wildfires fueled by strong winds. Stay safe: Follow all evacuation orders, check in Genasys Protect app Prep go bags Check on Disabled & older neighbors Need help? Try 211 or call/text Disaster Hotline at 800-626-4959
Graphic in English and Spanish versions. (Spanish text after english/Texto en español después del inglés) The background shows a wildfire in progress with visible flames and trees. English text: Disabled, impacted by wildfires, and need help? Call/text our Disability & Disaster Hotline at 800.626.4959 or email at hotline@disasterstrategies.org. Gráfico en versiones inglesa y española. El fondo muestra un incendio forestal en curso con llamas y árboles visibles. Texto en español: Llame o texteé la Línea Directa de Discapacidad y Desastres al 800.626.4959 o envíe un correo electrónico a hotline@disasterstrategies.org. #DisabLedResponse
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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Important reading about disabled folks in Palestine, including those disabled from violence from the IDF #IDPWD 'Facing genocide while disabled' www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
aljazeera.com
Facing genocide while disabled
Palestinians with disabilities in Gaza have experienced immense suffering due to displacement and the absence of care.
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Belle Owen @belleowen.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
The disability community rely heavily on social media platforms for connection and strategies for existing in an inaccessible world, we are also less likely to have correct / adequate ID to pass online checks and more likely to be targets of online scammers. No one wants this.
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