the roamer"Years on from that night, I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body, achieving, and laughing. Also occasionally, weeping. This is not the narrative society is used to."
Frances Ryan is one of the three or four Guardian writers that really matter. Her writings on the experience of disability, and on society's failure to deal with disability, are precise, nuanced, outspoken, challenging. Never miss a piece by Frances Ryan.
She has written a book, and the Guardian today publishes an extract. Highly recommended.
‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women
Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs to be done