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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Life & Society
Sliding doors
- 06 May 2008
- 2 comments
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...
Society
Ancient world
- 07 April 2008
- 7 comments
Smeared in mustard, paraded naked - the curious and often cruel treatment of disabled people in Ancient Rome, Sparta and Greece
Ideas
Anniversary
- 05 March 2008
- 4 comments
Victoria Brignell celebrates her silver disability anniversary and explains why she wants to celebrate her 25 years as a "Crip."
Society
Architectural apartheid
- 11 February 2008
- 2 comments
With a combination of careful thought, determination and technical ingenuity, any building can be made accessible
Life & Society
Bureaucracy
- 15 January 2008
- 1 comment
If you have a phobia of forms, I recommend you don’t become severely disabled
Society
Cripsmas
- 18 December 2007
For us crips Christmas isn’t exactly a time of undiluted joy and pleasure
Life & Society
Terminology
- 20 November 2007
- 1 comment
Victoria Brignell takes us on a trip across the often controversial territory of language and disability
Life & Society
Dominated by ambulist metaphors
- 30 October 2007
- 3 comments
Victoria ponders how English - a language she loves - is institutionally 'disablist'
Life & Society
Envying the Daleks
- 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
Life & Society
Being tetraplegic isn't a lifestyle choice
- 08 August 2007
- 1 comment
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
