At lunch recently with a bunch of people I didn’t know, I was reminded again how separated we, as People with Disabilities are. I was once again fascinated by the level of basic ignorance, displayed by normal average folks, about the basic capabilities of blind people, and the various bits of kit available to them, talking watches, Voice-over on the iPhone, (and you should have seen their faces when I told them that the phone READ MORE
Category: Diversity
I’m a Rotarian Podcast: Gwen Jones interviews Jeremy Opperman
Everyone knows the Rotary wheel, you’ve seen it on benches, or a school playground. But do you know any Rotarians? NO? Well, this is the podcast to fix that. Join producer and Rotarian Gwen Jones as she interviews some of the many men, women, famous or under the radar Rotarians that live all around the world. In this episode, Gwen talks to Jeremy about how he became a Rotarian, and where he sees Rotary’s Diversity, READ MORE
To BEE or Not to EE
How BBBEE has compromised Employment Equity resulting in the marginalization of diversity’s most forgotten cousin, Disability Can Companies comply with both the Employment Equity Act (EEA) and Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE)? Theoretically, one would imagine the answer would be yes, because the Department of Labour has not rescinded the EEA nor has it slackened its pressure on companies to submit their EE reports. At the same time, all companies and organizations need to in READ MORE
A Lesson in Applied Diversity
A term I have had knocking around in my mind for some time now. Applied Diversity. I nearly called my workshop by this name, but felt that one should “watch the knitting” and focus on your core business which included the name, so I settled on “Meeting Disability” instead. But the concept of applied theory or theoretical practice has always fascinated me as being logically imperative, and in fact preferable to pure theoretical activity. This READ MORE