Columnist Elin Williams: Anxiety And Sight Loss – My Struggle
There are so many different layers to life with sight loss, it’s not all black and white and I believe that the best way of filling in that grey space…
Blogger Features
Columnist Chloe Tear – Lessons Of A Disability Blogger
Every once in a while it’s important to reflect on how far you’ve come, and consider experiences, both good and bad. After reaching six years of blogg…
Columnist Heather Lacey: Bringing my whole, true self to work
For many disabled and chronically ill job-hunters, the dreaded thought of whether to tick that box to say you’re disabled is something that can be pos…
Interview: Frances Ryan speaks to Able about her new book on Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People
Crippled: Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People is the first book from Guardian and Able Magazine contributor, Frances Ryan. She spoke wit…
Columnist Ciara Lawrence – Sex and Relationships
It all started for me when I was 10 years old. I was a flower girl at my cousin’s wedding and I saw the love between her and her husband. I felt like …
Columnist Mary Doyle: The Power Of Not Yet
Fixed and growth mindsets (terms coined by Dr. Carol Dweck) are used to describe the underlying beliefs people have about learning and intelligence. W…
Columnist Emma Muldoon – Caravans and cassette tapes
Some of my fondest childhood memories are of caravan holidays with my family. We loved nothing more than packing up the car with a week’s worth of foo…
Columnist Elin Williams: How Blogging Helps Me To Combat Loneliness
When I typed up my very first blog post in 2015, I had no idea where this new online space would take me. I wanted to document my feelings in the hope…
Columnist Holly Tuke: Disabled people miss out on meeting their favourite bands and artists
For many of us, music is a lifeline, it’s something that has got us through some hard times. We have bands and artists that we look up to, who have he…
Columnist Shani Dhanda: It’s time to bring our authentic selves to the table – the importance of intersectionality
I love being of Indian ethnicity. My family holidays were always hot with regular trips to India - a melting pot of different cultures and religions, …
Columnist Ruby Jones: Student Carers – The Invisible Help
I came to university in 2016. Despite my disability, I chose to begin by not having a carer whilst I was studying unless I discovered I really needed …
Columnist Shona Louise: How my Powerchair changed my life
February 1st 2019 was a special day for me as it marked 1 year since my life changing powerchair was delivered. A year on and I still can’t quite beli…
Columnist Elin Williams: From one disabled person to another: You are not alone
The feeling of loneliness and isolation has been one of the most prominent when my experience with disability is concerned. When I was younger, I f…
Columnist Holly Tuke: Please don’t be offended if blind and visually impaired people don’t accept your help
I’ve been blind since birth so have come across my fair share of people that have ideas, opinions and attitudes surrounding visual impairment, and var…
Columnist Chloe Tear: Are The Needs Of Disabled Students Being Fully Met?
Education is something many of us take for granted. We start around the age of five and are set free in our late teens. For people like myself who cho…
Columnist Ciara Lawrence: It’s cool to be different
For so long I was just watching the world pass me by. From a really young age I just felt like no one understood me, except for my close family, aka m…
Columnist Heather Lacey: Shared experiences – and no longer feeling alone
In 2012 I left home to study English literature at university, but little did I know just how much my time away would impact life outside of my studie…
Columnist Robyn Steward talks about World Autism Awareness Day
Tuesday 2nd April, Autism Awareness Day can be interrupted in lots of different ways. For me, I think it is an opportunity for the wider public to lea…
Columnist Emma Muldoon: Back To Beautiful Barcelona
Barcelona is a city that I dreamed of visiting for such a long time. So it was a great feeling when we packed our suitcases and boarded the plane to s…
Columnist Robyn Steward: Do accessible periods exist?
I have multiple disabilities including physical, visual as well as autism. I’ve just finished 2 ½ years of work on the autism friendly guide to p…
Columnist Ruby Jones: The problem with being disabled and inspirational
The term ‘inspiration’ is thrown around with reference to people to look up to or aspire to be like. This could be someone famous or it could even be …
Columnist Chloe Tear: Life is a balancing act…
All aspects of life require balancing. This can become more important when you have a disability. From my personal experiences of having mild cerebral…
Columnist Mary Doyle: Rock Your Difference
Confidence is believing in yourself and knowing that you have the skills and ability to do what you set out to do. It’s being yourself and being compl…
Columnist Shani Dhanda: Why I embraced my disabled identity
Growing up, I was surround by disability, by virtue of living with osteogenesis imperfecta and being around other disabled people in hospital or at sc…
Columnist Ciara Lawrence: How I got here
I am 39 years old and I work as a campaigns support officer at learning disability charity, Mencap. I have a husband, a hamster and I’m a Kylie Minogu…