Acting - Listen to a clip here
“I was very much a ‘jazz hands’ child"
“People just don’t expect disabled people to be deviant”
“It’s a struggle because there’s so many… attitudinal and physical barriers”
“Why would a child dream of being an actor if you don’t see anyone in a wheelchair?”
Media - Listen to a clip here
“...there’s been a few films recently that have been ‘cripping up’”
“People like me aren’t even being invited to the audition. We need a level playing field.”
“The media likes to say that these are acceptable forms of disabled people, for example someone who has maybe acquired a disability, so they look non-disabled but are in a wheelchair.”
“We need to see a plethora of disabled people on television, not just what we deem as socially acceptable or non-threatening disabled people on our screens.”
“We also need to unpack all this unconscious bias and negative stereotypes that have been, you know, put into society over years, you know, this ableism these small micro-aggressions. And we’re only going to be able to do that once we stop seeing disability as a dirty word.”
Imposter Syndrome - Listen to a clip here
“I remember I was sat on a Sunday Morning Live, sat there thinking ‘What the hell am I, I don’t know what I’m doing; why do they want me here - there’s other people that can be so much better’.”
Disability Led TV - Listen to a clip here
“Why can’t we have a show where every single person has a disability in it?... And equally why can’t we have a show that is solely on fashion that is nothing to do with having a disability?”
Broken Bones - Listen to a clip here
“I had to lie a lot as a child when my older sister accidentally broke bits of my body.”
“I’ve definitely got a Kardashian bottom now, which is not a bad thing cos I’ve only got small boobs. You’ve got to have something, you know?”
“I’m pretty sure my sister, you know, constantly tried to kill me.”
“...there was a lot of resentment for many years between me and my sister. And that’s quite sad, I’m so grateful we’re on the right path now.”
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