In Visibility Today

The fourteenth episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott speaks to writer and performer Sabrina Richmond, about her one-woman play, An African in the Snow, integrating BSL into theatre, and the power of storytelling and intersectionality.

The thirteenth episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott speaks to writer, poet, and performer Penny Pepper, about her ground-breaking memoir, First in the World Somewhere, being the Naked Punk, and how Liz Carr encouraged her into Spoken Word.

The twelfth episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott introduces a special episode highlighting the InvisiYouth charity, an international non-profit that helps teens and young adults with chronic illnesses and disabilities, access the tools they need to thrive in a life with illness. Interview guests are charity founder Dominique Viel, and UK Global Brand Leader Sophie Ward.

The eleventh episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott talks to blogger and campaigner Holly Tuke about the success of her blog, lifeofablindgirl.com, making education and employment accessible, and challenging stigmas about visual impairment.

The tenth episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott talks to YA Author Lydia Ruffles about books, chronic migraine, harnessing creativity, and the long road to diagnosis.

The ninth episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott talks to Francesca Dean, a young journalist and campaigner with Cerebral Palsy, about being part of ITV’s Breaking Into News scheme, challenging disabled stereotypes, and the importance of social care for children and young people with disabilities.

The eighth episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott talks to Samantha Renke, an actress, designer, journalist, and disability campaigner, about designing a new line of accessible handbags, life as a disabled actress, and the Don’t Want Our Cash campaign she’s planning on taking to Parliament.

The seventh episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott talks to Chloe Tear, an award-winning blogger and disability activist with Cerebral Palsy, about her work with the charity Scope, life as a disabled student, and the ridiculous misconceptions about disability she deals with every day.

The sixth episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott talks to Sally Callow, an ME patient and advocate from the UK, about fundraising with the ME Association, the importance of breaking down stigma around this illness, and her new social enterprise to train medical professionals and health workers in how best to support their ME patients.

The fifth episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott recaps the latest in disability news, and talks to Eugene Grant, a writer and activist with dwarfism, about his work with Restricted Growth UK, Peter Dinklage and the representation of dwarfism in the media, and breaking down standards of normalcy.

The fourth episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, Laura Elliott recaps the latest in disability news, and talks to Samantha Baines, an actress, comedian, and broadcaster, about her experience getting a hearing aid when she was only thirty, and the work she's been doing since then with the BBC and Action on Hearing Loss.

The third episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, in a special episode for Autism Acceptance Month, disabled journalist Laura Elliott recaps the latest in disability news, and talks to Brooke Winters, an autistic activist and social worker, about the difference between Autism Awareness and Autism Acceptance; the human rights issues faced by autistic people today; and why it takes so long for some to receive a diagnosis.

The second episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, disabled journalist Laura Elliott recaps the latest in disability news, and talks to Gail Ward, a member of Disabled People Against Cuts, about their ongoing campaign against Universal Credit, how the dismantling of the welfare state is preventing disabled people getting the support they need, and what it’s really like to be disabled in austerity Britain today.

The first episode of the In Visibility Today podcast. This month, disabled journalist Laura Elliott recaps the latest in disability news, and talks to disability blogger and activist Shona Louise, about NHS wheelchair services, perceptions of disability, and how the anti-plastics environmental lobby has been leaving disabled people out of the conversation.