Lisybabe's Blog

I've been trying to write a piece about Assisted Suicide (AS) for years. I've been collating links and quotes here and there. I'...

Both the mainstream media and the gay press have been writing vast amounts of articles over the last couple of days about Uganda's new h...

Historically it's been the case that the single word to describe disability-based discrimination in British English has been "disab...

I've just realised how long it is since I last blogged. I knew I'd been ill for a while but I didn't realise it'd been nearl...

Written as part of Blogging Against Disablism Day 2011 . "You could get a girlfriend, you just need to be more confident..." .....

If you've been hiding under a rock and not seen the flags everywhere, it might have escaped your attention that Saturday was St George...

Being female, gay and disabled 1 you'd think I'd experience 3 times as much discrimination as a disabled but otherwise socially pri...

"But I thought everywhere was accessible now." How I loathe that sentence. It usually follows my asking "so why did you hir...

On the International Day of Disabled People I mentioned that the EHRC had used the day to launch an inquiry into disablist harassment in ...

I still haven't written a post for Blogging Against Disablism Day 2009 for 2 reasons: My disablist cat. Last week I was staying at my d...

She became instantly famous last Saturday because of her audition for Britain's Got Talent . As soon as the program aired I started read...

We grow, we evolve, our thought processes change. Since writing this post in 2008 (this emboldened intro was written in 2014) I've thoug...

Today is BADD. No, I haven't woken up with amnesia thinking I'm stuck in the 80's And, no, today hasn't been really shit, ne...