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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.

Articles by victoria brignell

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Where there is art there is hope

  • 01 July 2008

How the disabled - many of them victims of a long-running and bloody conflict - are helping bridge the ethnic divide in Sri Lanka against a background of escalating violence

A miracle convention for the disabled?

  • 03 June 2008
  • 2 comments

Fine words without actions are meaningless but actions usually only come about after fine words have been written - Victoria Brignell celebrates a new UN convention

Sliding doors

  • 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

  • 07 April 2008
  • 5 comments

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

Anniversary

  • 05 March 2008
  • 3 comments

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

Architectural apartheid

  • 11 February 2008
  • 1 comment

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

Bureaucracy

  • 15 January 2008
  • 1 comment

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

Cripsmas

  • 18 December 2007

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

Terminology

  • 20 November 2007
  • 1 comment

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

Dominated by ambulist metaphors

  • 30 October 2007
  • 2 comments

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

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