Liam O'Dell – Freelance Journalist and Campaigner

A white woman with blonde hair and a black dress crouches on stage and looks to the right at something off-camera. Behind her is a purple toilet and a yellow mannequin.

‘Overflow’ online review – Reece Lyons triumphs in Travis Alabanza’s toilet tour-de-force

By Liam O'Dell January 18, 2021January 19, 2021

Twitter invited a deaf person to test out Spaces – here’s what they think…

By Liam O'Dell January 16, 2021January 16, 2021

YouTube, you’ve forgotten disabled creators again

By Liam O'Dell December 10, 2020December 10, 2020

Liam wears a green and blue checkered shirt, and stands against a black background. He has his arms outstretched in front of him.

Freedom Project: How I Appeared in a George Michael Music Video for Freedom! ’90

By Liam O'Dell December 4, 2020December 3, 2020

Blue text reads 'Deaf Mosaic'. Underneath are three portraits. From left: a Black man in a white top, a Black woman tensing one of her biceps like the 'We can do it' poster, and a man in a red sports shirt and wearing sports goggles.

‘Deaf Mosaic’ review – Deaf diversity on display in evocative exhibition

By Liam O'Dell December 1, 2020November 30, 2020

Loads of small, multicoloured squares cover the screen. In the middle is a clock with 2020 in the middle. The outline of the clock is red and fluid.

2020 was a rollback for deaf people’s rights – here’s why

KSI is in his bedroom filming a video. He looks down at the captions box at the bottom, which reads: ‘hahaha subtitle this’."

The UK’s biggest YouTuber, KSI, is harming deaf awareness – he has to stop

House of Commons chamber

UK Government acted “far too slow” to address inaccessible COVID comms, MPs say

A man in a booth holds a telephone. He wears rubber gloves on his hands and a floral gown. A wall of tissue boxes is behind him, and he wears paper glasses with the word 'soothe' on it, and two hand sanitisers either side.

‘Living Newspaper: Edition One’ online review – A punchy, postmodern soapbox

A man sits on a carpeted floor in a room. He looks unamused at the person behind the camera. To the left of him is a manual wheelchair.

Hidden Wheelchair ‘Prank’ Video Does Not Violate Guidelines, YouTube Says

Saffron Barker looks down and to the right on the right hand side of the photo. On the left, yellow text reads: 'Opening up about my past'.

Saffron Barker’s hard of hearing documentary review – A problematic pity party