Margot Beavon-Collin

Margot Beavon-Collin is a Political Economy and History student at the University of Sydney, where she has been a Disability Office Bearer since 2019. She is a current member of the WWDA Youth Advisory Group and PWDA’s Pandemic Project, as well as a candidate member of the Australian Communist Party. She has also been involved with the Disabled and Neurodivergent Workers’ Alliance and the Disability Justice Network. She has spoken at the Emerging Writers’ Festival and the National Young Writers’ Festival, and her work has been published in Militant Monthly and Honi Soit.

Articles by Margot Beavon-Collin:

18 October 202119 November 2021 · Disability

Covid, crisis, history: why we need a political economy of disability

Margot Beavon-Collin

What it means is that this pandemic, and the near universal inability to properly contain and manage its spread, are a function of the particular material form that disability takes under capitalism. We must understand disability, itself a category historically located within capitalism before we can understand the pandemic. To avert another such global catastrophe in the future, we must confront the structures within which this most recent catastrophe is comprised.