Dammit 2025, I do not need another 2024

[davidgillon]

 It felt like I'd been punched last night when I read that Lisa Egan had died. Gone far too young.

If my memory isn't playing me false, Lisa, @LisyBabe in many places, is the one who first dragooned* me into writing about disability and the threat of being Austerity's chosen victims, and that so early in the Cameron years that Blair may still have been in power.

The best way to honour her life I can think of is to link to my favourite piece of her writing, one I've often pointed people at when trying to explain the importance of how you talk about disabled people, and why the Social Model of Disability matters.

I'm Not a Person With a Disability, I'm a Disabled Person

* I'm really not sure I got any choice in the matter

Comments

[sovay]

It felt like I'd been punched last night when I read that Lisa Egan had died. Gone far too young.

Her memory for a blessing.

*hugs*

[davidgillon]

Thank you.

[lokifan]

Oh no. Her memory for a blessing.

That's a great article.

[davidgillon]

That's a great article.

It is, isn't it. And Lisa got it into a market, xoJane originally, where it would get mass exposure rather than just be seem by disability studies types.