A Disabled Woman’s Struggle Is Any Woman’s Struggle

A Disabled Woman’s Struggle Is Any Woman’s Struggle
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‘The most pressing issues faced by disabled women are the ones faced by most women, except that when you’re disabled, it adds another layer of discrimination,” says Eleanor Lisney, co-founder of the disabled women’s network, Sisters of Frida.

Lisney helped organise the first-ever session on disabled feminism at last weekend’s Feminism in London conference. It may seem trivial, but to Lisney, 56, it is a small, significant victory in a larger battle for disabled women’s recognition. As one of the speakers on a panel where each woman has a disability – and looking out at a room of largely disabled women -- I found it hard to ignore how oddly unusual the experience was.

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