Photo of my wheelchair in a dark room, silhouetted against a doorway, with a large shirt outlined in lights hanging against a dark wall. Forced Intimacy is a term I have been using for years to refer to the common, daily experience of disabled people being expected to share personal parts of ourselves to survive in an ableist world.

I am a wife, i am a mother, i am a woman, i am invisible. The invisible woman will soon be going on a much needed holiday. The company of my wonderful teenagers, larks in the pool and laughs over dinner. And then she will cease to be and start the next chapter in her life, reclaiming her identity as. A new blog for a new woman. Ironically today the very kind wordsbyjustincase.