Vogue’s ‘New Suffragettes’: where are the women with disabilities? | Frances Ryan
‘The battle for equality rages on,’ says the fashion magazine’s new issue. But it excludes women like me who are, yet again, made to feel invisible
British Vogue’s decision to mark 100 years since women were granted the vote has received much coverage in the past week. Its Meet the New Suffragettes spread features seven influential females “fighting to empower women in the battle for equality that rages on”: politicians Stella Creasy and Sophie Walker, artist Gillian Wearing, gal-dem founder Liv Little, journalist Paris Lees, blogger Dina Torkia and writer Reni Eddo-Lodge.
The list was widely perceived as displaying the diversity within the modern women’s movement. But on seeing
