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Category: Disability

Lucy Catchpole - a white wheelchair user wearing a mustard coloured linen skirt.
December 10, 2021 Lucy & James Catchpole

Disability, fiction, and me

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

9 Unhelpful disability tropes in kids’ books

September 25, 2021September 25, 2021 Lucy & James Catchpole

Don’t catalogue people! KidLitCripCrit

A photo by Richard Cave for the Oxford Mail of James playing amputee football - he's just kicked the ball directly at the camera and looks very intense. James is a one-legged white man, then in his 30s. He's using black crutches. Our text reads: '"What happened to you?" disability & sport' on a cream paper background. 
September 5, 2021September 14, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Do Paralympics viewers have a right to know What Happened To Them?

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?

What Happened to You? lesson plans. A4 pages spread out on a wooden background. Pages are fanned out, contents is not visible. In the centre, picture book What Happened to You?. Text below reads: 'What Happened to You? lesson plans'
August 8, 2021November 26, 2025 Lucy & James Catchpole

Official What Happened to You? lesson plan | With author James Catchpole

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

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

A photo of Lucy, James, Mainie & Viola outside in Jericho. Lucy's a wheelchair user, and you can't actually see that James has one leg here - but he has. Viola is a baby and asleep. All subsequent images use the same photo as background, just the text changes. Our text reads: 'Disability in a kids' book? Unsure about it? Imagine reading it to a disabled child. Would it feel right? If not, that's your answer.' 
June 6, 2021December 7, 2024 Lucy & James Catchpole

Disability in a kids’ book? Seem a bit… problematic?

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