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Áine Kelly-Costello

Proudly disabled story-teller and campaigner

  • I’m starting a podcast

    I’m starting a podcast

    Meet me at the intersections of disability, migration and culture.

    July 1, 2021
  • Moving back to Aotearoa New Zealand

    Moving back to Aotearoa New Zealand

    I’m flying back to Aotearoa tomorrow after moving to Sweden to study followed by a 2.5-year unplanned detour to Norway. I want to leave some reflections here about this particular transition. But I’m struggling to find the words. How can I express the ways that the pandemic’s presence and being dislocated from home and having…

    October 1, 2022
  • Social Role Valorisation: What is it, and what’s the problem?

    Social Role Valorisation: What is it, and what’s the problem?

    SRV perpetuates the devaluation of disabled people. Ingrid Jones explains why, and what you can do instead.

    June 5, 2022
  • 2021

    2021

    On a chronic illness level, 2021 was tricky for me. Long Covid has a real penchant for continuing to chuck new constellations of symptoms at many of its people, for which I am no exception, on schedules which despite my best efforts get only a little easier to predict over time. Finding a meaningful vocabulary…

    December 31, 2021
  • The human cost of inflexible work

    The human cost of inflexible work

    Employers can learn from my exclusion.

    April 19, 2021
  • 2020

    2020

    The year that never ends has almost ended. Here are some reflections.

    December 18, 2020
  • Letter to my 17-Year-Old Self

    Letter to my 17-Year-Old Self

    You spend 2011 and 2012 being a sleep-deprived, miserable, anxious hermit. Here are some reckons on life eight years on.

    September 23, 2020
  • Covid-19 coronavirus: On recovery and listening

    Covid-19 coronavirus: On recovery and listening

    I think it’s likely I got a mild Covid-19 case in late March. I was exhausted with some fever and digestive symptoms and I know where it probably originated from. I was lucky that I had a friend who could go to the pharmacy for me, and that even when several of my close friends…

    May 9, 2020
  • Scandinavian Shift

    Scandinavian Shift

    April 2020 was a strange moment to move north of the Arctic circle. Almost all of my international friends who could were finding their way home, wherever that meant for them. I was no exception—at least if I classify a home location as “wherever my parents are”, which I am privileged to be able to…

    May 8, 2020
  • Being a disabled journalist is lonely: Let’s change that together

    Being a disabled journalist is lonely: Let’s change that together

    Image caption: Isabelle Ulfsdotter and Áine Kelly-Costello presenting at Gothenburg University. Photo/Patrick Jowett Update: response from book launch organisers Hostwriter follows this post. One night in Hamburg As I clambered up the wobbly boat stairs, across a connecting bridge and down similar, steep steps, a blurry montage of words followed me: hierarchy, subaltern, inclusion, power,…

    January 12, 2020
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