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View from my wheelchair - Victoria Brignell on life as a disabled person.

Sliding doors

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 06 May 2008

How much being disabled has altered the course of a life - Victoria Brignell ponders whether being in a wheelchair has actually made all that much difference...

Ancient world

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 07 April 2008

Smeared in mustard, paraded naked - the curious and often cruel treatment of disabled people in Ancient Rome, Sparta and Greece

Anniversary

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 05 March 2008

Victoria Brignell celebrates her silver disability anniversary and explains why she wants to celebrate her 25 years as a "Crip."

Architectural apartheid

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 11 February 2008

With a combination of careful thought, determination and technical ingenuity, any building can be made accessible

Bureaucracy

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 15 January 2008

If you have a phobia of forms, I recommend you don’t become severely disabled

Cripsmas

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 18 December 2007

For us crips Christmas isn’t exactly a time of undiluted joy and pleasure

Terminology

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 20 November 2007

Victoria Brignell takes us on a trip across the often controversial territory of language and disability

Dominated by ambulist metaphors

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 30 October 2007

Victoria ponders how English - a language she loves - is institutionally 'disablist'

Envying the Daleks

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 12 September 2007

In her latest column, Victoria Brignell mourns the hours that pass without the beloved Doctor who may be an example for us all and reveals how she envies the Daleks

Being tetraplegic isn't a lifestyle choice

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 08 August 2007

At a time when we are bombarded by news stories about the apparent breakdown of communities, my disability enables me to witness plentiful examples of people's thoughtfulness

Hands off our parking bays

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 16 July 2007

If the police want to catch criminals, the best place to start looking could be disabled parking spaces

Tip of the iceberg

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 12 June 2007

There's more to paralysis than not being able to move. Victoria reveals the hidden medical challenges faced by people with spinal injuries

Bizarre comments

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 08 May 2007

Some strange things get said to people with disabilities. Here Victoria Brignell gives us her top 12 weird remarks

Physical challenges

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 05 April 2007

Being disabled hardly keeps many people from beating records, engaging in extreme sports and completing other equally notable feats

Venerate me and I'll run you over

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  • Posted by Victoria Brignell
  • 13 March 2007

Victoria muses about the treatment of disabled people in 17th century Spain as recorded by the artist Velazquez and draws comparison with the present day

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Victoria Brignell

Victoria Brignell

Victoria Brignell works as a radio producer with the BBC. After reading classics at Downing College, Cambridge, she undertook journalism training at Cardiff University. She lives in West London and is 30 years old and is a tetraplegic wheelchair-user.

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Sliding doors

  • By Victoria Brignell
  • 06 May 2008

Ancient world

  • By Victoria Brignell
  • 07 April 2008

Anniversary

  • By Victoria Brignell
  • 05 March 2008

Architectural apartheid

  • By Victoria Brignell
  • 11 February 2008

Bureaucracy

  • By Victoria Brignell
  • 15 January 2008

Cripsmas

  • By Victoria Brignell
  • 18 December 2007

Terminology

  • By Victoria Brignell
  • 20 November 2007

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