We need to talk about hate

Hello,

A few months ago I posted a video on Instagram in which I said disability was a feminist issue.

Within 24 hours I had received over 700 hate comments.

And I mean hate comments.

I’ll spare you the details and summarise. There were the usual sexist-ableism classics, like saying the reason my friend Ellen Jones (who was also in the video) and I are disabled is bec…