Katie Kelly - Where Ableism & Disablism shows up in our everyday

Описание: In this video, Disability and Inclusion Advocate Katie Kelly shares experiences of Ableism and Disablism as she has experienced in work, community and sport. Below is the visual description and then a transcription of the video.

Visual description of images in the video:
The video includes Katie sitting on a chair by herself, in a beige jacket with a white shirt, and the frame captures her from chest upwards. It is being filmed in a film studio and Katie is talking and facing the camera as she shares experiences of competing in Para-triathlon, and her career as an advocate for disability and inclusion. While she is talking the video also shows various images and footage of Katie which are described below.

Throughout the video it is Katie speaking the words as they are transcribed below. At times there is soft gentle music in the background. There are no other sound effects.

As Katie talks about Ablelism and Disabilist attitudes there are images of her walking across Spain doing the Camino pilgrimage. These are mostly still images, including one of Katie in a wet weather jacket and carrying a backpack, while holding a white cane in an outdoor setting.

When talking about ableism in the workplace and community there are images of Katie training and then video images of a person who is a wheelchair user trying to access an entry to a building that has stairs, and another video image of another person holding a remote control watching TV that has no captions on.

Katie talks to doing a comedy workshop, and there are images of Katie on a stage holding a microphone with Guthrie her Guide Dog sitting beside her. The stage has red curtains behind Katie and bright lights on her and Guthrie. Guthrie is a black labrador/retriever and is 3 years old in this video.

The video ends with an image that includes the text Katie Kelly OAM PLY, Disability and Inclusion Advocate and 2 x Paralympian, with the website www.katiekelly.com.au The image includes at Katie Kelly logo which has the letters KK, and it is on a navy background with white font.

Transcript – video Katie Kelly OAM PLY

I think it's also really important to have some conversation around concepts such as ableism and disablism.

And they are similar, but there is nuances in both.

So ableism is prioritising the needs of people without a disability over those with.

So that can be something like, not having accessible wheelchair ramp into a building or not having close captions available on live stream.

And it's really important we think about where ableism exists in our everyday because it does.

And this is really a barrier for people with disability to participate and to have the same opportunity of people without disability in our everyday.

People ask me what disablism attitude is and it's something I, I do experience quite often. I could almost say daily.

So an example I could give is I had the wonderful opportunity to do the Camino Pilgrimage, which is across Spain. And a person said to me: How is someone like you with a white cane going to walk across Spain? And I said: Well, why wouldn't someone like myself be able to do that walk?

Because what that comment does is that it disables me.

It almost has this lower expectation that because I have a white cane,

I can't do what people without a white cane do. And this is where we need to challenge again.

And often those barriers and low expectations we put on people with disability.

Recently I thought I'd try my hand at comedy, so I did a comedy workshop over a weekend and we had to perform on stage five minute stand up.

I had my guide dog Guthrie with me. He was part of the act and it went really well.

Afterwards, the comedy coach, who was fantastic and very inclusive along the way, but they sort of mentioned: Katie, maybe it would be better if you do a lunchtime session because the nighttime sessions might be a bit challenging for you with your low vision.

You can't see very well at night and it's a bit hard with the guide dog.

And in many ways that's another example of disablism attitude, right?

And this person that wouldn't have been their intention.

And essentially I said: Well, I think what we need to do is advocate for the hotel industry and for this sector to improve the inclusion of people with disability, to be able to go out to the pub at night and to be able to perform stand up comedy and, you know, that there can be a guide dog in those surrounds.

So disablist attitude can be quite subtle and they can appear in our everyday conversations.

We just really need to be mindful of those sorts of language and words that we impose on people with disability.

Because whilst we're trying to create a connection, we're actually doing the opposite and creating a disconnect and disabling that person and their sense of self to achieve and be part of the community in the same way that you are.

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