This Finnish Climate And Disability Rights Activist Says People With Disabilities Must Be Included In All Political Decisions

"Where do you go in a storm when you use a wheelchair? When it snows, will it be plowed?”

Selinä Nera, a 22-year-old Finnish climate and disability rights activist, told Almost at UNESCO's World Press Freedom Day event in Santiago, Chile, that all politics is disability politics because there is nothing that doesn’t relate to affect to people with disabilities in some way.

Nera, who is also the chairperson of the Youth Organization of the Finnish Green Party, says she hopes that her participation in politics can help to change the assumption that people in disabilities can only represent disability issues in politics.

“We should be able to discuss other matters,” Nera said. “This is a larger structural issue that needs to be made.”

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