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Olivia Shivas

New Zealand
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Storyteller, podcaster, organiser, baker and proudly disabled. Listen to What's Wrong With You? on Apple Podcasts and Spotify olivia.shivas@stuff.co.nz
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How the DSS Bill puts disabled people at risk of abuse

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By Olivia Shivas, Suzanne Cowan
| thedlist.co.nz
Disabled people would be expected to rely on support from their family members and community before they could access Disability Support Services funded care. The definition of “family member” is broad, covering parents, siblings, partners and even cousins and half-siblings. Research shows that having a disability increases a person’s risk of experiencing violence.
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Disabled communities are under attack, time to push back

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By Suzanne Cowan, Olivia Shivas
| thedlist.co.nz
Kāinga Ora has scrapped its target to ensure 15% of the housing they build is accessible. The agency also plans to increase rent for people living in social housing, which includes 27,000 disabled people across Aotearoa. Our housing options are already so limited, this will make more disabled people face homelessness, or being forced to live in inadequate and unsafe houses.
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Can disabled people make art in relationship with AI?

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By Suzanne Cowan, Olivia Shivas
| thedlist.co.nz
Abilitopia is a performance work shaped by disability, technology and a central premise that none of us are independent. Created with dancers Duncan Armstrong, Raven Afoa-Purcell and Julie van Renen, the project asks: What happens when interdependence is treated not as weakness, but as a creative force? The work brings dancers and artificial intelligence into relationship on stage. It is not about AI replacing humans or producing a seamless technological future.
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