Belle Owen
@belleowen.bsky.social
she / her
Ostentatious.
All things disability justice, access and inclusion.
Based on Kaurna Yerta
Ostentatious.
All things disability justice, access and inclusion.
Based on Kaurna Yerta
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Rest in power, Alice Wong.
A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.
She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.
We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.
She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.
We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:
November 15, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Rest in power, Alice Wong.
A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.
She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.
We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
A fierce disability justice oracle, storyteller, and now ancestor.
She taught us that disabled wisdom lights the future, and that our stories must never be erased.
We mourn. We fight. We carry her work forward.
Thank you, Alice. For everything you gave us.
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I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I don’t care who you are, the one thing that links all of the -isms and bigotries together and sets them on fire is eugenics and ableism.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
They’ve been playing you all the entire time. There is no progress in this country for ANYTHING without equity for disabled people.
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mask off for the coal ghouls - 89% of those who die from heat in Australia are disabled people
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
‘Heat deaths aren’t a thing’: Coalition MPs weighing net zero given sceptical briefing on climate science
Exclusive: Briefing by conservative thinktank Centre for Independent Studies was arranged by a Coalition backbench committee
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:25 PM
mask off for the coal ghouls - 89% of those who die from heat in Australia are disabled people
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
source: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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not sure tasmania should make goblin forest more accessible. sounds like asking for trouble imo.
October 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
not sure tasmania should make goblin forest more accessible. sounds like asking for trouble imo.
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Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion a year, enough to quadruple Commonwealth spending on housing.
Read the full release below:
Read the full release below:
Progressive patriotism: ACTU’s 25% gas export tax should replace broken PRRT
Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion...
australiainstitute.org.au
October 17, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Analysis by The Australia Institute reveals that replacing the broken Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT) with a flat 25% tax on gas exports, as suggested by the ACTU, would raise more than $17 billion a year, enough to quadruple Commonwealth spending on housing.
Read the full release below:
Read the full release below:
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Me living by the sword: Swords rule
Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh
Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh
July 31, 2023 at 3:21 AM
Me living by the sword: Swords rule
Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh
Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh
Are you a legend who wants to support the world’s oldest and largest LGBTQIA+ women's and non-binary football club to create a future where football is safe and welcoming for everyone? Well, I’ve got the petition for you! www.theflyingbats.com/petition @battledinosaur.bsky.social
Sign the Petition- Football Australia: Protect the participation of all women in football. — Flying Bats Football Club
Call on Football Australia to fight discrimination and protect LGBTQIA+ inclusion in football.
www.theflyingbats.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Are you a legend who wants to support the world’s oldest and largest LGBTQIA+ women's and non-binary football club to create a future where football is safe and welcoming for everyone? Well, I’ve got the petition for you! www.theflyingbats.com/petition @battledinosaur.bsky.social
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People call disabled folks “burdens,” but I’ve never met anyone more resourceful, patient, and relentless than sick and disabled people practiced at keeping each other alive.
August 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
People call disabled folks “burdens,” but I’ve never met anyone more resourceful, patient, and relentless than sick and disabled people practiced at keeping each other alive.
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Here's how Poison by Bardot could still win
July 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Here's how Poison by Bardot could still win
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gee, it would be great if disabled people led this organisation, and they advocated for actual disability-led solutions or anything actually effective
womensagenda.com.au/latest/is-au...
have a read of @lizjackson.bsky.social piece about similar orgs in the US
prospect.org/health/2023-...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/is-au...
have a read of @lizjackson.bsky.social piece about similar orgs in the US
prospect.org/health/2023-...
Is Australia's biggest productivity solution hiding in plain sight?
At Australian Disability Network, we see a unique opportunity to position disability inclusion as a key driver of productivity growth.
womensagenda.com.au
July 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
gee, it would be great if disabled people led this organisation, and they advocated for actual disability-led solutions or anything actually effective
womensagenda.com.au/latest/is-au...
have a read of @lizjackson.bsky.social piece about similar orgs in the US
prospect.org/health/2023-...
womensagenda.com.au/latest/is-au...
have a read of @lizjackson.bsky.social piece about similar orgs in the US
prospect.org/health/2023-...
Our household is definitely in the eating our feelings stage of grief and through this we have invented a new meal: ‘entreat’. It’s the entree little sweet treat you have after dinner, before the proper dessert.
July 8, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Our household is definitely in the eating our feelings stage of grief and through this we have invented a new meal: ‘entreat’. It’s the entree little sweet treat you have after dinner, before the proper dessert.
Today is two weeks since mum left. A week since her funeral. Thankful for this weather keeping me on the couch under blankets and for the people looking out for me.
July 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Today is two weeks since mum left. A week since her funeral. Thankful for this weather keeping me on the couch under blankets and for the people looking out for me.
I’m on a month-or-two break from work at the moment but this is something I’m proud of that I did before the break.
latest purple orange podcast with @belleowen.bsky.social and Dr Ellen Fraser-Barbour on 'Unseen, but felt: The art of allyship'
purpleorange.org.au/stories/purp...
purpleorange.org.au/stories/purp...
Purple Orange - Purple Orange Podcast Series
This season, we’re sharing six stories from across the disability community, covering topics from employment, to parenting, to cultural stigma, inclusive education, and more!
purpleorange.org.au
July 7, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I’m on a month-or-two break from work at the moment but this is something I’m proud of that I did before the break.
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I wrote this last year about the cost of exclusion to disabled people, and it all seems so unchanged
www.bluntshovels.au/the-cost-of-...
www.bluntshovels.au/the-cost-of-...
The cost of exclusion
The world designed for bodies and minds very different to ours, that allows non-disabled people to move about with all the supports and services they need, while we are left at the edges
www.bluntshovels.au
July 5, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I wrote this last year about the cost of exclusion to disabled people, and it all seems so unchanged
www.bluntshovels.au/the-cost-of-...
www.bluntshovels.au/the-cost-of-...
So proud of my friends in Sydney YIMBY for how hard they work, how much shit they take to make a difference. Watch tonight’s Compass for the whole story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
The deeply personal reasons Australians call themselves YIMBYs
Australia's YIMBY movement is relatively new, but it is making an impact and each member has their own housing struggle spurring them on.
www.abc.net.au
June 29, 2025 at 2:13 AM
So proud of my friends in Sydney YIMBY for how hard they work, how much shit they take to make a difference. Watch tonight’s Compass for the whole story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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“He was disabled and on the NDIS. He was hungry. He was under state guardianship - under the care and protection of the Minister. And it was the state that killed him,” said Debbie Kilroy, a leading prison abolition advocate with the National Network.
www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
24-year-old disabled Indigenous man dies after police restraint inside Alice Springs supermarket
Witnesses say he stopped breathing while still on the ground. Despite emergency efforts from paramedics, he was pronounced dead at the scene.
www.sbs.com.au
May 28, 2025 at 1:34 AM
“He was disabled and on the NDIS. He was hungry. He was under state guardianship - under the care and protection of the Minister. And it was the state that killed him,” said Debbie Kilroy, a leading prison abolition advocate with the National Network.
www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article...
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New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
25 arrested while protesting GOP Medicaid cuts
"You will kill me."
www.motherjones.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
New blog from me at @motherjones.com: 25 people were arrested today during a Congressional hearing while protesting Medicaid cuts. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Yeah sex is good but have you ever eaten a chocolate chip cookie while Antony Green called that Peter Dutton would lose his seat to a disabled woman?
May 3, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Yeah sex is good but have you ever eaten a chocolate chip cookie while Antony Green called that Peter Dutton would lose his seat to a disabled woman?
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gee, so great to see this celebration of innovation that includes paying disabled people as little as $3 per hour, by a company that got $2m in financing. /s
www.smartcompany.com.au/transport-lo...
www.smartcompany.com.au/transport-lo...
How one Australian Disability Enterprise came in clutch for this fashion startup
Clothing adhesive brand Clutch Glue needed help for a massive shipment. Assistance came from the other side of Australia.
www.smartcompany.com.au
May 1, 2025 at 8:44 PM
gee, so great to see this celebration of innovation that includes paying disabled people as little as $3 per hour, by a company that got $2m in financing. /s
www.smartcompany.com.au/transport-lo...
www.smartcompany.com.au/transport-lo...
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It's amazing how much sympathy and empathy people want for "lost", "adrift" boys and men while we're in the midst of acute patriarchal retrenchment, global trans panic, and women being arrested for miscarriages in red states.
LOL was wondering when we’d get a “won’t someone think of the incels” take
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Netflix series 'Adolescence' left me sad and mad as a mother of boys | Opinion
'Adolescence' promotes a political agenda, and the narrative is about toxic masculinity with a 13-year-old child at its center.
www.usatoday.com
March 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It's amazing how much sympathy and empathy people want for "lost", "adrift" boys and men while we're in the midst of acute patriarchal retrenchment, global trans panic, and women being arrested for miscarriages in red states.