The View From Down Here

The View From Down Here

We need to talk about hate

May 13, 2025
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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…

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