Great piece from @DaniGaravelli1 on how pandemic restrictions have been a double-edged sword for disabled artists.

Author @everdundas argues the arts community should be lobbying for #BasicIncome to remove the need to navigate the flawed benefits system. https://www.scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-and-entertainment/insight-why-disabled-artists-cant-go-back-normal-3059060

Pertinent quote from @SabenCallaghan on how pandemic has revealed that things disabled people have been asking for are very possible: "It illustrates how a lot of barriers are self-imposed on institutions and how the constraints they believe they face are ones that are internal."

Parallels to be drawn with Basic Income here. For decades disabled people have been calling for greater accessibility and there is an ambivalence that it has taken the experiences of non-disabled people to spur accessibility changes seen during the pandemic.

Similarly, we know that the benefits system disproportionately affects disabled people, those in the arts, and those in poverty - all of whom have been demanding change for years. We also know that change such as Basic Income IS possible and more a question of political will.

Therefore, as the article states, we hope that the pandemic will "consolidate any advances and ensure the fresh insight gleaned by the non-disabled acts as a catalyst for change"

We hope that change is #BasicIncomeNow