{"id":39002,"date":"2025-04-17T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/the-face-of-british-disability-is-increasingly-young-and-female-its-time-to-hear-from-them-frances-ryan\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:56:37","slug":"the-face-of-british-disability-is-increasingly-young-and-female-its-time-to-hear-from-them-frances-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/the-face-of-british-disability-is-increasingly-young-and-female-its-time-to-hear-from-them-frances-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"The face of British disability is increasingly young and female. It&#8217;s time to hear from them | Frances Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My book about disabled women grew in relevance as I wrote it, exposing the heartlessness of proposed harsh benefit cuts<\/p>\n<p>When I began to write a book four years ago about life for disabled women in Britain, I didn\u2019t bank on it being particularly topical. Stuck in bed with chronic fatigue and pain in my early 30s, I wanted to write something that would connect with other women navigating pillboxes and heat pads alongside careers and relationships. And so I decided to interview more than 70 women and non-binary people with physical and mental health conditions \u2013 from famous actors to legal experts, musicians to psychologists. The result was a vast and varied catalogue of disabled life: from stories about workplace microaggressions and good and bad dates on the apps, to finding freedom (and judgment) using mobility aids.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn\u2019t anticipate was that as the months went on, and my word count went up, the disabled cohort I was writing about would grow to include more and more women \u2013 many of them even younger than me.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/apr\/17\/disability-women-benefit-cuts-who-wants-normal-frances-ryan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book about disabled women grew in relevance as I wrote it, exposing the heartlessness of proposed harsh benefit cuts When I began to write a book four years ago about life for disabled women in Britain, I didn\u2019t bank on it being particularly topical. Stuck in bed with chronic fatigue and pain in my &#8230; <a title=\"The face of British disability is increasingly young and female. It&#8217;s time to hear from them | Frances Ryan\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/the-face-of-british-disability-is-increasingly-young-and-female-its-time-to-hear-from-them-frances-ryan\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The face of British disability is increasingly young and female. It&#8217;s time to hear from them | Frances Ryan\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}