Opinion: We Contain Multitudes

News: Disability Arts Online announces its first Artistic Director

Disability Arts Online (DAO) has announced the appointment of disabled and neurodivergent theatre-maker, playwright and social justice activist, Kate Lovell, as its first Artistic Director. Read by Kate Stephens.

Opinion: The haunting of chronic illness in BBC sitcom, Ghosts

Writer Matt Alton reappraises BBC sitcom, Ghosts, which ran from 2019-2023, which follows a young couple who inherit a haunted estate. He finds eerie parallels between the ghosts being housebound, longing for their past lives and the groundhog-day nature of their existence, and the lived experience of chronic illness. Read the article here. [https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/the-haunting-of-chronic-illness-the-allegory-for-ill-health-in-bbc-sitcom-ghosts/]

Opinion: What does the National Year of Reading 2026 mean for neurodivergent readers?

In light of the National Year of Reading 2026, a Department for Education initiative to ‘help more people discover the joy of reading’, Keira Brown considers the importance of access to library spaces for neurodivergent and disabled communities in the context of ongoing cuts and closures. Read the article here. [https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/what-does-the-national-year-of-reading-2026-mean-for-neurodivergent-readers-and-access-to-library-spaces/]

Opinion: We Contain Multitudes

We Contain Multitudes is a group exhibition featuring work by Andrew Gannon, Nnena Kalu, Daisy Lafarge and Jo Longhurst on display at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA). The exhibition has been developed from the collaborative project of the same name – delivered in partnership between DCA, Collective [https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/] and Lux Scotland [https://luxscotland.org.uk/] and funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation – which aims to create systemic change in the Scottish arts sector for disabled visual artists, arts professionals, and audiences. DCA commissioned disabled researcher and curator Rachel Boyd to reflect on the show's themes. Read the article here. [https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/the-choreographies-of-access-present-in-the-we-contain-multitudes-group-exhibition/]

Opinion: Intrusive inclusion in dis_place's inaugural exhibition

Multidisciplinary artist Anna Li reflects on 'I need to be more than a lesson you learned,' the first internally curated exhibition for Disability Arts Online's virtual gallery, dis_place. The exhibition explores embodied disabled experiences of access in relation to ableist approaches to diversity and inclusion and features the work of nine disabled artists, including three new commissions. Read the article here. [https://disabilityarts.online/magazine/opinion/intrusive-inclusion-dis_places-first-curated-show/]