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Body Babble is the blog where crip, queer & misfit bodies talk back. Essays about disability, access and queerness.

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After the flare

After the Flare, a comic by Celestine Fraser, 2026.

Dear every body,

How are you?

Hello from London, where we’re in the middle of our third heatwave this year. We’re all hot, sweaty and operating well below our baselines (which in disabi...

13 days ago
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I went to the world's only Deaf university

Established in 1864, Gallaudet University is a bilingual university in Washington D.C. which caters to Deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Photo: Alamy

Dear every body,

At the end of last year, I received a lovely message on LinkedIn from...

a month ago
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The politics of sitting down

Jo, who lives with chronic illness, wears the ‘Please Offer Me a Seat’ badge and sunflower lanyard on public transport. Photo: @presentedbyjo.

Hello, and welcome to Body Babble! You can help me keep publishing independent essays and report...

2 months ago
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The blind aesthetic

Photos: Joanne Crawford and Rob Harris, 2025. Collage: my own.

Dear every body, today we’re talking about Beyond the Visual, the UK’s first major blind-led sculpture exhibition, which is running until 19th April 2026 at the Henry Moore Ins...

5 months ago
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Do disabled artists have to be activists?

Disability activists campaigning for accessible transport. London, February 1995. Photo: G.P. Essex, via Alamy.

This essay was originally published in Disability Debrief as ”A new wave of disability media”, and edited by Peter Torres Frem...

5 months ago
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