For me, and for many other people with disabilities, our status as disabled people is one of which we are fiercely proud. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
There are real-world, devastating consequences for disabled women marginalised by the kinds of attitudes that deny them full agency over what happens… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I do not identify as a person with a disability. I'm a disabled person. And I'll be a monkey's disabled uncle if… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We are a society that treats people with disabilities with condescension and pity, not dignity and respect. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I identify very proudly as a disabled woman. I identify with the crip community. I didn't invent the word 'crip'. It's a… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I really love filling out forms - quite fortuitous, really, given that as one of Australia's 4 million-ish disabled people, ticking boxes… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
“For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
In my own home, where I've been able to create an environment that works for me, I'm hardly disabled at all. I… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
Disability simulation fails to capture the nuance and complexity of living in a disabled body. And it certainly fails to give a… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
We all learn how to use the bodies we're born with, or learn to use them in an adjusted state, whether those… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder. — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
I am repeatedly asked in interviews exactly 'what's wrong' with me, and I always give them the same answer; I don't identify the name… — Stella Young Copy Share
We think we know what it's all about; we think that disability is a really simple thing, and we don't expect to see disabled… — Stella Young Copy Share
For me, in some ways, my whole life is a bit performative and always has been - because I'm stared at and looked at… — Stella Young Copy Share
Believe me, people with disabilities are just as concerned about benefit fraud as anyone else. Money spent on those who are not in need… — Stella Young Copy Share
In many ways, I'm incredibly lucky to have been born with my impairment and that it's visible. It means my path has been predictable. — Stella Young Copy Share
We’ve been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn’t. … I want to live in a world where we… — Stella Young Copy Share
When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded. — Stella Young Copy Share
I have a condition that is included among the 200 or so classified as Dwarfism. — Stella Young Copy Share
The problem for many people with disabilities is not that we are not able to work a certain number of hours a week. It's… — Stella Young Copy Share
As a wheelchair user, I am utterly obsessed with toilets, and all my friends know it. A simple invitation to the pub is consistently… — Stella Young Copy Share
Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness. — Stella Young Copy Share
From my first days in Washington D.C., where I rolled a whole four downtown blocks without seeing a single shop, cafe, bar or restaurant… — Stella Young Copy Share
