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Daunting...but I am speaking at the WOW Festival Exeter, on Sunday 15th October on a panel with Liz Carr.  As well as the discussion I will be teaching BSL Interpreted Yoga.
See below for more info and to book a ticket if you want to come along.
Sunday 15th October: 11.15am – 12.15pm
Disability, Women andTaking Action
"Why does much of the women’s rights movement marginalise women with disabilities?"
A panel of speakers discuss why disability is so often left out of conversations regarding intersectionality and surveys the key battlegrounds that disabled women are fighting on.
Panel members include:
Actor, comedian and disability activist, Liz Carr; Dance artist and yoga practitioner who has Tourette Syndrome, Clair Beckett (ME!)
Chaired by Michelle Daley

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