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Lucy is a disabled writer – of Mama Car, and (co-author of) You’re So Amazing! See also, The Catchpole Agency.

On the Channel 4 Paralympics trailers, by Lucy Catchpole. Photo: Lucy - a white wheelchair user - holding a ball.
August 26, 2021December 7, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

On the Channel 4 Paralympics trailers – it’s complicated

a 2020 photo of me, a white 40ish mother with long brown hair, sitting in my wheelchair with my then 1yo daughter on my lap. We're wearing green linen. I'm looking off to the side and smiling. Text on a cream paper background reads: "The most damaging stereotype?
August 23, 2021February 10, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

Sickness and Lies? | The BBC and a very damaging stereotype

A mirror selfie. I'm a white woman wearing a brown cotton hair scarf, holding a camera and looking into the lens smiling. The words "disability pride..." are written at the top with a cream torn paper background. The mirror frame is very old and cracked, and is cream, though it looks mysteriously pinkish here.
August 13, 2021August 4, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

On disability pride. What does it mean?

August 8, 2021December 1, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Disability – tropes in children’s picture books | Some thoughts for teachers

James, a one-legged father, walks with his young daughter. He's wearing a prosthetic leg over his clothes. with text added, like: 'A true story?' 'Inspirational!' x 4 😉 'Triumph over adversity?' 'Heroic soldier backstory?' 'Not giving up!' 'Where's the wife? Tragic double car accident?'
May 28, 2021December 7, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

The danger of a “true” story – KidLitCripCrit

Frida Kahlo: Little People Big Dreams. Disability in picture books - our top 6. Photo: Lucy, a white woman, lies in bed with her small daughter Mainie.
May 18, 2021July 30, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

KidLitCripCrit – Frida Kahlo: Little People, Big Dreams (this one is personal)

May 11, 2021May 12, 2021 Lucy & James Catchpole

Librarian Fight Club – are human characters always better than animal characters?

May 10, 2021January 27, 2022 Lucy & James Catchpole

Disabled motherhood – a category error? The infantilisation of disabled parents

Text reads: What should you do if your child yells at a disabled person? (You probably already know the answer...)  Lucy & James are outside - Lucy's sitting in her wheelchair and James has a prosthetic leg strapped on over his clothes. We look suspiciously young - the photo is a couple of years old. You can just about see that Lucy is pregnant. A 3 year old Mainie stands between us looking sun-kissed and happy. We're white with brown hair, Mainie's looks blonde. Images 2 to 9 have this same photo as background. And text is on a background of cream torn paper on all images.
May 5, 2021August 17, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

What should you do if your child yells at a disabled person?

NO representation is better than bad representation - Lucy Catchpole. Photo: Lucy Catchpole, a mirror selfie. She's a white woman sitting in her wheelchair.
April 18, 2021September 20, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

No representation is better than bad representation | Lucy Catchpole on disability

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