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| Thank you, Frances Ryan, for speaking up for us disabled women | Thank you, Frances Ryan, for speaking up for us disabled women |
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| Society would rather we stay out of sight, out of mind, says Karen Edmunds | Society would rather we stay out of sight, out of mind, says Karen Edmunds |
| Hurrah for Frances Ryan (‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women, 9 April)! As a disabled woman of 60 who has lived with a visible disability since I was 12, seeing Frances’s article just made me want to shout “Hell, yes”. | Hurrah for Frances Ryan (‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women, 9 April)! As a disabled woman of 60 who has lived with a visible disability since I was 12, seeing Frances’s article just made me want to shout “Hell, yes”. |
| I’ve spent my life sanitising my experience of disability and several long-term health conditions, hiding the less palatable aspects. Working twice as hard as my non-disabled peers. Achieving a senior position at the cost of my own health and wellbeing. | I’ve spent my life sanitising my experience of disability and several long-term health conditions, hiding the less palatable aspects. Working twice as hard as my non-disabled peers. Achieving a senior position at the cost of my own health and wellbeing. |
| Society can’t handle disabled women: the fact that we can have a laugh, get drunk, have a sex life, travel solo, have a job, own a house. Society would rather we stay indoors, out of sight, out of mind, out of the workplace with our “demands” for reasonable adjustments. | Society can’t handle disabled women: the fact that we can have a laugh, get drunk, have a sex life, travel solo, have a job, own a house. Society would rather we stay indoors, out of sight, out of mind, out of the workplace with our “demands” for reasonable adjustments. |
| We’re not tragic but brave. We are angry and fed up with being treated as a nuisance if we dare to question the lack of access or processes that disable us. | We’re not tragic but brave. We are angry and fed up with being treated as a nuisance if we dare to question the lack of access or processes that disable us. |
| Frances – never stop telling it like it is. We see you and we love you just the way you are. | |
| Karen Edmunds | |
| Smarden, Kent | |
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