Jarrod Sandell-Hay

23/04/2023

Chelsie and I are desperately in need of a new used car. They are extremely expensive for what we need. We are currently planning for a family and servicing our current car that has done us so well for so long considering that it’s 25 years old. There is no way we can maintain all of this and save for a new car. So, we need your help, we have set up this Gofundme that explains a bit more of our circumstances. We know times are incredibly hard for everyone right now so please only consider donating if you absolutely can. If you are not able to, please share our story as we would like to continue to shine a light on just how expensive transport is for people with disabilities. We’ve never done anything like this before and we both feel extremely uncomfortable asking for help but we really don’t have many options left so please bare with us! Thanks x

Hello! My name is Jarrod and my wife, Chels and I need a new accessible van… Jarrod Sandell-Hay needs your support for Chels and Jarrod Need A Wheelchair Van

31/01/2023

This is my 300th post on Instagram! And I thought I’d introduce myself again to some of you who may be new! My name is Jarrod, I’m a disability rights activist (if you can’t tell by my feed). ’I’m a proud bis*xual q***r disabled man. I grew up and lived in Naarm for most of my life and I moved to Darkenjung in late 2017 with my beautiful wife. I work on Awabakal for a disability peer organization where I am a project manager for 2 projects (with support from some amazing people).

On Instagram I often talk about community and social structures, the good and the bad. I hold governments to account and ask a lot of questions. I try to keep my content intersectional. Recently I’ve posted a lot about the importance of changing the date and hopefully contributed to amplifying First Nations voices. Because 1, it’s the right thing to do and 2, it’s supporting First Nations people with disabilities. Being anti racist is a disability issue.

I did a lot of advocacy around Covid the last two years. Asking more from the public, calling out eugenics, and spreading numbers of deaths of disabled people.

I also share my community and disabled joy. Disabled people, especially activists are seen as aggressive and combative. Society can’t stand angry disabled people but they hate seeing happy disabled more. Both are important and both are required. I’m s*x positive, body positive and fat positive (before Lizzo made it cool). I consider myself a feminist but you should speak to the women in my life as I feel like I can and should always do more.

I’m a gigantic music fan and I was the number one progressive houseDJ in Melbourne on a popular music website called ReverbNation (back when Instagram and Facebook were just twinkles in Mark Zucs eyes). These days I’m more of a Kae Tempest, Beyoncé, and Mary Lambert fan rather than Tiesto but I don’t mind creative dance music like Faithless, Tami T and Fatboy slim

If you like what I do here, you can buy me a drink, coffee, Fat Slim tickets (he’s touring around my birthday, just saying) you can use the QR code In the second photo.

So glad to have you stop by and thanks for reading this long ass post!

https://www.paypal.me/jarrodmarrinon

22/03/2022

Thank you to my wonderful friend Carly Findlay OAM for all your support

19/03/2022

17/01/2022

Hi Everyone, CDAH are holding a Covid forum and in terms of the NDIS we are going to talk about Rat tests, PPE and a plan for you and your support workers to stay safe from Covid and prepare for isolation if you get Covid and need to isolate at home. It’s this Thursday at 1pm and is via Zoom. If you click the event there’s more information in there. Everyone is welcomed! The direct link can be found on the CDAH website at

Community Disability Alliance Hunter is a peer led organisation, run for and by people with disability.

03/01/2022

Harvey Norman made $16m in profit from Job Keeper and now is selling RATs that keep disabled safe. Image description: a screenshot of the Harvey Norman website.

01/01/2022

I just spent 2 hours in a room with other disabled people and allies to talk about how to prepare for Covid. Why is it disabled people have to spend public holidays doing the Prime Minister’s Job?

01/01/2022

Hospitalisations have doubled in NSW and Victoria. Is this really going well?

31/12/2021

Don’t worry if people die from omicron. It’s only a mild death…

30/12/2021

Scott Morrison (ScoMo) calls it “living with Covid. We call it killing babies.

SA further relaxes testing requirements as the state's Premier says two-thirds of COVID-19 tests were conducted on people without symptoms.

30/12/2021

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/dec/30/ozsage-experts-warn-let-it-rip-covid-strategy-will-condemn-vulnerable-australians-to-death

Sheer scale of cases means the impact on an already fatigued health system ‘could be enormous’, report says

30/12/2021

Sure there are 12k cases in NSW today but thank god we got that $750 two years ago…