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4/4/25 - Friday Video Share: "GEMS CAR CHATS: PIP is Changing! What You Need to Know"

Andrew Pulrang

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Friday

A disability lifestyle YouTuber gets a little bit political. Honestly, it's kind of encouraging.

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GEMS CAR CHATS: PIP is Changing! What You Need to Know

Wheelsnoheels - Gem Hubbard - April 3, 2025

What's interesting about this video?

  • It's about the U.K. disability benefits system, which is in some intriguing ways quite different from how disability supports are handled in the U.S.
  • It's interesting to see how U.K. politicians, citizens, and disability communities talk about some of the same issues, trends, worries, misconceptions, ableist ideas, and ideological obsessions differently and also similarly to these topics in U.S.
  • It's by a disabled YouTuber who rarely discusses disability policy, politics, or severe poverty, and usually presents more positive, almost aspirational views of life with a disability.
  • It shows how disabled lifestyle content creators can occasionally do activism, with urgency and sincerity, and without coming off as threatening, overwrought, or politically partisan to their more casual audiences.

It would be great to see more disabled social media influencers in the U.S. do this, too, especially with so much at stake for disabled people right now.

Have an outstanding weekend!

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