Five Disabled Heroes You've Never Heard of

Five Amazing Women who were Featured as part of our 'LGBT Heroes' Series

(This article is an extract from the 'LGBT Heroes' Series, the full list can be found on the Disabled Student Society Instagram Page)

Disabled people are too often erased from history, our legacy forgotten. These are just five women who deserve to be remembered for their contributions.

Barbara Jordan

Barbara Jordan was a lawyer, educator, politician, and Civil Rights leader who was first woman elected to the Texas Senate and the first black woman from the Deep South to win a seat in the US House of Representatives

Edith Craig

Edith Craig was a theatre director, producer, actress, costume designer, and pioneer in the women’s suffrage movement. She stated that she "grew up quite firmly certain that no self-respecting woman could be other than a suffragist"

Audre Lorde

Audre Lorde was a writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil rights activist. Her poems and prose largely deal with issues related to civil rights, feminism, lesbianism, illness and disability, and the exploration of black female identity

Pat Parker

Pat Parker was a poet and activist who worked for a decade as the executive director of the Feminist Women’s Health Centre, and was heavily involved in the Black Panther Movement.

Eve Gore-Booth

Eva Gore-Booth was a poet, dramatist, suffragist and activist who specialised in Irish Folk tales which enhanced the role of women. She was a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist.

Check out the rest of our list at: https://www.instagram.com/uclandisabledstudentsociety/