Robyn Hunt

Robyn Hunt

@accease.bsky.social

Co-founder #CriptheLit. #Writer, #essays #writing #HumanRights, #disability, #access, #digitalaccess, #artsaccess, #disabilityarts, disability activist, feminist. Leftish. Views my own. https://tahahotu.org.nz/Meet-the-artists/robyn-hunt

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Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

#Audiodescription deeply enriches #arts experience, as an #art in its own right, even for people like me with some useful vision. Sometimes you don't realise what you're missing. A beautiful description of a a sculpture, rich with texture, can stay with you. #artsaccess #blind #lowvision #creativity

Robyn Hunt
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Oh yes! There are many dreary little #books about #disability I would never give to my grandchildren. I call such books "improving" and "worthy" books. A lively, entertaining story is what is wanted on any subject. #children #reading #stories www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/h...

rnz.co.nzHave adults ruined kids’ picture books?Have kids’ picture books become too educational, targeting the parents purchasing the books, rather than creating fun and imaginative stories for kids?
Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

Gosh, listening to Kim Hill is a reminder of what quality interviewing is, as opposed to the “chats” we hear in what used to be her time slot, and some other RNZ programmes.

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Bronwyn Hayward
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Last day! NZ National restricted general roll voting regulations for the first time in 40 yrs To reporters please don’t repeat spin- the change won’t speed up counting - And let’s not shrug & say just 2% fewer voters enrolled It’s 300,000 NZers prevented from voting That’s an entire NZ town

Robyn Hunt
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Terrific to see @aunz.theconversation.com exploring #Deaf trauma through a Deaf-led #theatre production. The Milan Congress had a terrible affect of language deprivation on Deaf communities everywhere. theconversation.com/manifesto-of... #SignLanguage

theconversation.comManifesto of Silences reimagines opera from a Deaf perspective, as a space to process trauma communallyThe Deaf-led theatrical work explores the tragic consequences of the Milan Conference of 1880, which resulted in the suppression of sign language around the world.
Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

Most political parties don’t appear to take the #arts seriously. #ArtsAccess Aotearoa reviews policies at a Welly arts forum, "people in the arts community left ... wanting more: practical proposals, clear commitments & solutions to challenges facing the sector." artsaccess.org.nz/political-pa...

artsaccess.org.nzPolitical parties and their arts policiesArts Access Aotearoa asks political parties to comment on arts policies and set practical commitments to improve access to arts and culture across New Zealand.
Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

Oppose Citizen's Assemblies. promo by TOP. I trained in deliberation, no representation of minority & particularly disadvantaged ppl & groups, no #HumanRights approach, i.e. Participation, Accountability, Non-discrimination & equity, Empowerment, Legality, & Elevating rights of most disadvantaged.

Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

Flier for a cool #disability #writing event, including the cover of the beautiful book & a portrait image of Trish Harris. Details: Trish talks about her book Out of the Box, 6-7.30pm, Thursday October 22nd, Schrödinger's Books, 137 Jackson Street, Petone. Terrific! #books #writers #disabilityarts

Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

It's great to be all cool and pretty in the #arts, but please, please, please, don't send me lurid images that flash! I will immediately delete without reading because it is physically uncomfortable for me to see them, and if you want me to buy something, well that's your loss. #a11yfail #a11y

Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

Well #ACT can get in the bin! Cutting #disability benefits. If everyone who is #disabled, our friends, families, people who work with us, and allies did not vote for them, it would at least mean something, even if it makes little difference to the outcome. #NZpol

Robyn Hunt
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Such an interesting piece about blindness and #photography. Critiquing simulation and observing #disability objectification., and the relationship between blindness and a visual medium. #blind #blindness #arts #artsaccess artreview.com/obscured-por...

artreview.comHow Disability Reshapes PhotographySurveying the historic representation of the blind and visually impaired in photography – and even simulating their experience – a new show in Taipei expands what ‘seeing’ can mean
Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

Online meetings are fine if everyone knows each other, there are not too many people, & they are task oriented. Not good for building #disability community & don’t work well for all #disabled people.

Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

Today is Suffrage Day and I reflect on how well disabled women are faring, and I’m afraid not well compared to disabled #men and non-disabled #women. #disability

Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

Always a bit suspicious of #disabled gurus, nearly always male. We all learn from our #disability experience but I still find such activity, aimed at non-disabled people, problematic, perhaps because it is so individualistic and doesn't acknowledge disability community. www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

rnz.co.nzWhy our toughest moments can also be our bestIf you had one last meal, what would you choose? This is a question that begins every episode of a podcast called Last Meal with Tom Nash. But food is just the entree into much bigger conversations. T...
Robyn Hunt
@accease.bsky.social

I hate being forced to do electronic ticketing. I don't have a printer or do email on my phone, the screen is too small. Its just another #access barrier, its stressful and puts me off attending #arts events