{"id":116,"date":"2019-08-01T17:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T16:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/?p=116"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:46:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:46:17","slug":"2019-idpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/2019\/08\/01\/2019-idpd\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd December 2019: Francesca Martinez &#8211; The Beauty of Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Join us for an engaging and entertaining talk&nbsp;with Q &amp; A&nbsp;by&nbsp;<strong>Francesca Martinez<\/strong>&nbsp;as part of the NU&nbsp;DIG&nbsp;celebration of diversity for International Day of People with Disabilities. Francesca is a wobbly comedian, writer, speaker and activist (she has mild cerebral palsy, but much prefers the word \u2018wobbly\u2019). She has guested on Channel 4 News, BBC2&#8217;s Newsnight, BBC1\u2019s Today\u2019s Politics, and was voted most popular guest on BBC3&#8217;s Free Speech. Her&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VvRz8HrEVKY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent debut on BBC1\u2019s Question Time<\/a>&nbsp;was described as the show\u2019s \u201cbest ever moment\u201d and went viral with 11 million views in the first week alone.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event is free and open to all Newcastle University staff and students, spaces are limited.\u00a0<strong>Registration required by 27th November 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newcastle.sharepoint.com\/events\/Pages\/NU-DIG-Diversity-Event-2-December-2019-.aspx\">Staff registration link via the staff homepage <\/a><\/strong>(staff login required)<br><br><strong>Student registration link can be found on the student homepage or via NU Disability and Neurodiversity Society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The 3rd of December is the UN International Day for People with Disabilities.&nbsp; Throughout the week we will be promoting a number of events celebrating disability inclusivity.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for an engaging and entertaining talk&nbsp;with Q &amp; A&nbsp;by&nbsp;Francesca Martinez&nbsp;as part of the NU&nbsp;DIG&nbsp;celebration of diversity for International Day of People with Disabilities. Francesca is a wobbly comedian, writer, speaker and activist (she has mild cerebral palsy, but much prefers the word \u2018wobbly\u2019). She has guested on Channel 4 News, BBC2&#8217;s Newsnight, BBC1\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7236,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13,25,23,24],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-events","tag-idpd","tag-staff","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/dig\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}