‘You Deserve to Be Seen’ Bri Scalesse on being a disabled model
I cannot pinpoint a single defining moment I realised I wanted to model. Instead, it was the overarching fact that I knew deep in my bones that disabled people deserved more. At my core, I wanted to feel wanted. I
Latifa Daud on the Complexities of Privilege
Can you pass the mic and amplify the voices of the silenced? Challenge an employer or friend to think differently? One conversation will cause a ripple, multiple conversations will cause the tidal wave we need to fix everything that is
Sunday Afternoon French Toast by Kate Henry
I believe that everyone should be able to love the food that they put into their body, and that we as chronically ill individuals can overcome anything, one meal at a time. Most of my recipes are low FODMAP, Gluten
This is our House too
Disabled people, we usually find our way into the discourse through a side door - as a ‘vulnerable population’ ‘a cost’ as and as an exception – that one disabled person an MP knows personally who proves their argument while
‘A lot of feminism has been about reclaiming the male gaze. But, disabled women make a good point – what if we never had the gaze in the first place?’
“The disabled body is always seen as a public body. It’s always seen as a spectacle. People think they have the right to look at it, to categorize it, and then to dismiss it and then to look away…” Ju