#incloosion

I'm in an ongoing dispute with my uni over the one changing places toilet being broken leaving me without a loo on campus. So far I've had lots of useless "we're looking into the situation" type responses and no concrete "We understand the problem and we're going to do X to resolve it"

The disability support office have done all they can... but the union can do more!

Because they aren't part of the uni they can raise more of a stink about it and hopefully get some proper responses. It's totally confidential as well. And if the uni continues being useless and not fixing the issue, the union can support me navigating the long and complex formal complaints procedure (hopefully it won't come to this, but if it does, they've got my back)

They can offer loads of advice about pretty much any aspect of uni life. Student finance issues? Need to repeat a year? Discrimination? The union is there to support you and provide impartial advice!

My favourite cousin recently got married to her equally brilliant fiancée after years of delaying it because of COVID. The weather was perfect, the farm was gorgeous and their dresses were beautiful. They were even blessed with a very symbolic rainbow.

Both of them have worked really hard to make this happen - weddings are famously difficult to plan without a pandemic. What made it even more amazing for me was that they had gone out of their way to make sure that it was accessible.

That meant they not only did the basic stuff like making sure there were ramps for all areas and arranging for us to get there a bit early so we could park somewhere that wasn't a field, they also made sure that I got my own gastroparesis friendly food, letting me chose exactly what I was going to eat and best of all even hired a changing places toilet* for the whole event.

It was a beautiful wedding and a beautiful example of how utterly wonderful and caring they both are, and how to do things right.