Episode 81: Special guest: Rachel Charlton-Dailey (Writer, editor, author & activist)

21andsensory Podcast

On todays episode my special guest is the lovely Rachel Charlton-Dailey. Rachel is an is an award-winning disabled editor, journalist, activist and more recently author!

Rachel is a disability rights columnist for The Daily Mirror where she guest edited the series Disabled Britain. Rachel writes mainly about disability and women’s rights and her work has featured in publications such as HuffPost, The Guardian, Glamour and The Big Issue. Her specialisms are political issues affecting disabled people, disability in the media and the gender health gap.

Her first book Ruby Hastings Writes Her Own Story was published by Collins Big Cat on January 8th! When Rachel isn’t writing, she can be found walking her sausage dog, Rusty (which OF COURSE we chat about!)

Rachel’s Links:

• Buy ‘Ruby Hasting's Writes Her Own Story’: Buy my book! | Instagram | Linktree
• Disabled Britain: Disabled Britain: Doing It For Ourselves - Latest news, pictures & videos - The Mirror
• Rachel’s Twitter: Rachel Charlton-Dailey (@RachelCDailey) on X
• Rachel’s Instagram: Rachel Charlton-Dailey (@rachelcdailey) • Instagram photos and videos
• Rachel’s website/portfolio: Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Ghosts articles Rachel wrote!

• Ghosts: Celebrating a British Comedy Breakout Success whynow
• https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a46186848/ghosts-ending-christmas-special-review/
• Ghosts star Ben Willbond on show's devastating Christmas finale
• Why Ghosts means so much to LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent fans
  

We mentioned:

• Disabled and proud podcast: Disabled & Proud Podcast (@disabledandproudpodcast) • Instagram photos and videos
• Fab mobility aids: https://www.neo-walk.com/
  

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