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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Departmental Staple Remover
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  • Author's note: ... over the last year and a half your department’s lack of capacity to professionally deal with my application in an efficacious and timely manner, regards my disability, does not instil me with confidence that I will not receive prejudicial treatment at interview. Given the paper-trailed record of your department’s treatment, regards my disability, I have engaged the Anti-Discrimination Board to advocate the success of my application with your department. Please further be advised that I have sent a copy of this letter and an outline of my application experience with your department to both the sitting and shadow minister. I have done this in the hope that the department will rectify any wantings for best practice in its processing of all job applicants—particularly those with disabilities. Henceforth, I will only accept written correspondence with the department.

    -my letter to the Head of Applications: it’s just

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    y separately published work icon Westerly DisAbility; Online Special Issue; Speicial Issue : DisAbility vol. Special Issue no. 9 2019 16865993 2019 periodical issue 'As a writer and academic with a long-standing disability, I was both delighted and apprehensive at the thought of acting as editor for a collection of works themed on disability. Delighted, as the voices of disability have historically been under-represented and under-valued. Apprehensive, because these voices have traditionally been muted or warped by existing socio-cultural beliefs and expectations. I wanted to handle the material with a light touch; treat the experiences of the writers with respect; suspend my own attitudes and opinions around disability within a group of voices that brimmed with embodied knowledge and creativity' (Josephine Taylor Editorial introduction) 2019 pg. 59
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