Today's episode of The Wheelchair Activist is with the unstoppable mentor and disability consultant Kay Ashton MBE. In this episode we discuss Kay's journey to pregnancy using IVF. At the end of today's episode we ask listeners to donate to Planned Parenthood. This episode was recorded before the recent decision taken by The Supreme Court in the U.S to overturn abortion rights, but we feel it's contents are extremely relevant. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide. We realize that this is a very scary time for women and girls across the world who are worried about their access to a safe and legal abortion.

We stand with everyone scared, and we will continue to fight with you until everyone has the right to choose what they do with their own body.

We hope you enjoy the episode as much as we enjoyed recording it.

#kayashton #pregnancy #disability #ivf #roevswade #womensrights #mybodymychoice

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This week Emma interviews Chris Fry, a Disability Rights Lawyer, Disruptor and Innovator with cases which make changes to everyday life. He represents Deaf and disabled people who face barriers with access to services, advice, information and education, and has been at the forefront of disability rights work for the last 10 years. You can check out his website at

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Liam O’Dell is a Deaf, dyspraxic and autistic journalist and campaigner with OCD. He also identifies as asexual. He writes regularly for Indy100 (part of The Independent), Metro and The Limping Chicken, which is a popular Deaf news website. His work has appeared in The Guardian, The Verge and the BBC amongst others, and he is regularly approached for interviews on Deaf issues. He reviews London theatre productions in his spare time over at liamodell.com.

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In this episode, Emma talks to childhood best friend Lanie Berk. Lanie, who has known Emma for over 20 years, is a Child Life Specialist in Chicago. She helps reduce stress and anxiety for children and families and bring some fun in to the hospital setting. Her passion for child life sparked from her relationship with the wheelchair activist and growing up with a disabled best friend.

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Emma interviews Roxanne Steel. Roxanne Steel is a proud disabled feminist campaigner, content creator, trained activist, speaker and media consultant, who also works with D&A as an Accessibility and Inclusion Specialist. All views are her own.

In this episode we're discussing all things intersectional feminism, workplace barriers and even Zoom calls with Matt Hancock.

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Emma interviews Lucy Webster, a writer, political journalist, and disability advocate. Lucy is a full time wheelchair user. We discuss the social model, Lucy's advocate work, the disability community, ableism and even eating cake for breakfast.

You can subscribe to Lucy's wonderful newsletter The View From Down Here by going to https://lucywebster.substack.com/

Producers: Emma Vogelmann & Isabelle Anderson

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Emma interviews Jason Bates, Lead Communication and Engagement Manager at Tesco Maintenance and former Chair of Disability at Tesco. Jason has cerebral palsy and is a wheelchair user.

All views are those of Jason Bates and do not represent those of Tesco or its affiliates.

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Emma interviews Nina Tame, a disability mentor, content creator and influencer. Nina is a full-time wheelchair user.

Producers: Emma Vogelmann & Isabelle Anderson

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*Please note there are expletives in this episode*

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Emma interviews Chloe Timms, a disability rights campaigner, podcaster and writer. She has Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

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"Thus far, this project is self-funded. We want to continue to invest in accessibility of the website and the podcast and promotion of the content as well as hiring a producer. My dream is to one day be able to pay each guest who comes on the podcast because disabled people have done too much for free for too long.

So far I have worked with a virtual assistant who has designed the website, a disabled illustrator to develop the podcast artwork and a disabled freelance accessibility expert to do an audit website to make sure all disabled people can access the content. Each one of these amazing woman has been paid for their work.

This project is so much bigger than me doing a podcast and bogging. It is about providing some much-needed representation for the disabled community and highlighting the issues we face every day. If you are able to contribute towards this project I will be forever grateful." Emma

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Emma interviews disability charity Scope's Accessibility Specialist, Elisabeth Ward. Elisabeth is an amputee from birth who also has chronic migraines.

Head to https://youtu.be/J63RIGgqwoA to watch with full transcript.

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