Amanda Listens’
A space to share my thoughts, concerns, dreams, and aspirations for advocacy and social change.
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Youth Are Important!
Youth have much to contribute on different issues that exist within society and globally. With the different skills, experiences, and motivations as they will be the next leaders, activists, and global citizens to move in a positive direction.
Media’s Role in Global Issues
Media is a major consumption of information for the general public that can influence how we perceived global issues. Learn how narratives can play a significant role and how you can utilize the media.
Time to Take Action! Tips for Starting Out
Do you want to take action on the issues you care about? Read this blog post to learn about activism and advocacy and some tips to help sustain your efforts.
World Youth Skills Day | Illustrating Disability
World Youth Skills Day started in 2024 to annually celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship on July 15th. Learn about the connection to youth with disabilities.
Disabilities Toolbox | Art Piece
Description of an art piece of a drawing of the various tools being used to get through the day as someone with disabilities.
Connecting Human Rights and The Ability to Choose
It is hard to think that change is needed when you do not know the alternatives or different experiences connected to human rights. Read to see how knowledge and existence of rights should allow the ability to have choices in society.
Start Updating, not Following: Improving Accessibility in Your Work
Accessibility and disability inclusion are becoming part of the mainstream conversation to improve standards, experiences, and quality of life. Read how the focus should be updating your process, not following the crowd when improving accessibility.
Tips to Improve Accessibility During a Busy Time
If you did not plan for accessibility from the beginning, do not worry. You can still find ways to improve your activity by reading some tips to help during a busy time.
Factors that Impact Policy Change
In order to act for change, understanding of what factors affects policy change is crucial to the success of action. Learn about the different factors as a starting point to examine the potential impact for social change.
Importance of Access Awareness Week
2024 Access Awareness Weeks is from May 26th to June 1st. In Canada, there are many weeks that are happenning to work toward improve accessibility and inclusion. Learn more about what AAWNS means and NAAW.
Take Action on Accessibility: How to Navigate Different Needs and Structures
When it comes to accessibility and disability inclusion, most people think they are doing the “standard” of what is expected from them. However, it requires taking initiative to improve access in our community. Learn how to navigate the structures that currently exists and how to reframe thinkig about accessibility.
Communicating Change: A Key Component to Action
Part of advocacy and activism is showing the impact you have made. In the era of digital technology, the approaches of communications has expanded with an emphasis on social media. However, there are many ways communication is needed to take action that goes beyond showing impact.
World Day of Safety and Health at Work | Illustrating Disability
World Day for Safety and Health at Work is on April 28th to internationally recognize the need for a healthy and safe working environment and prevent harm in the workplace. Persons with disabilities is a crucial part of this discussion. Learn more about how understanding and including the disability experience is important.
Setting Boundaries in an Inaccessible World
When access needs are not considered, boundaries can be crossed to gain some access. Long term, this is not helpful when living with a disability. Read to learn how important setting boundaries can be and how it can help with your access needs.
6 Qualities to Design a Better World
There are many ways to contribute to taking action. However, there are qualities tht can make taking action to design a better world a little easier (and more fun). Read to see what the 6 qualities are.
Importance of Time: Time Use in an Inaccessible World
Time is a precious resource. How we are able to utilized time in our day to day lives depends on many factors that we interact with. For persons with disabilities, time use can be impacted. Learn about the three (3) differents ways that affects the time use of persons with disabilities.
International Day of Happiness
International Day of Happiness happens annually on March 20th to recognize happiness as a goal in order to drive an equitable, inclusive approach to well-being. Learn more about different aspects of happiness and actions that can help persons with disabilities.
Importance of Policies to Take Effective Action
When you need to make decisions that affects someone’s needs and rights, policies and procedures are develop to meet the gaps that exist in our society. Learn how important it is to know about the policy process to effectively take action.
Reflecting on International Women's Day in 2024
Reflecting on the time on doing advocacy work including the intersectionality of gender equality. Read more to learn what I have learned over the years on women and girls rights.
Is The “Best Approach” How We Should Be Developing Our Policies?
We are always looking for the “best approach.” From our personal lives to policy decision-making, there is pressure to make the most optimal decision. But, should it be how we approach solving problems in our communities? Read more to see why this idea exists and why it may also cause issues when improving society.