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A conversation about ableist lyrics in a Beyoncé song leads to calls for more people with disability to be appointed to senior roles in the NDIS and Australian politics.

Beyoncé's new album Renaissance is at the centre of another controversy, with the singer removing an interpolation of Kelis’s 2003 R&B hit song Milkshake from her song Energy after accusations of theft.

Fan protest on social media has been pushing artists to make changes to their work but it’s hardly a new phenomenon

Beyoncé's track, Energy, sampled Kelis' 2003 hit Milkshake, which was written by Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo (formerly known as The Neptunes)

Beyoncé listened and will change an ableist lyric. Many people, however, aren't so quick to change

‘That video is my Grammy, right there,’ singer says

Anna Morell says Americans often use the slur without thinking about context, but in a country in which a quarter of all adults are disabled, that flippancy is a part of dismissing disabled people

"Spazzing on that ass" does nothing whatsoever to harm people with cerebral palsy.

TV presenter Sophie Morgan - who is disabled - has slammed Beyoncé for using a derogatory term in a song on her new Renaissance album - just weeks after Lizzo did the same

We need allies who care enough to shift their thinking, so the onus isn’t always on disabled people to point out problems, says the Observer New Review writer Kathryn Bromwich

Beyoncé is removing an offensive term for disabled people from a new song on her record “Renaissance,” just weeks after rapper Lizzo also changed lyrics to remove the same word. “The word, not used intentionally in a harmful way, will be replaced,” a spokeswoman for Beyoncé wrote in a statement…