Juno Dawson, Sport Coaches, Frances Ryan

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Juno Dawson’s latest novel is called Meat Market. It's inspired by her time working in fashion and being in contact with models, editors and agents. It's a story about young girls seduced by money and images of perfection but vulnerable to predators, exploitation and ill health. Juno speaks to Jane about writing Meat Market and her hopes for the fashion industry. This week we’re celebrating women sport coaches. Today we hear from Gemma Lumsdaine who's a wheelchair basketball coach at Dundee Dragons Club. She tells us about the benefits of sport and the confidence that coaching gives her. The journalist and campaigner Frances Ryan says austerity has led to the ‘demonization of disabled people’ especially disabled women. Disabled women and mothers, she says, are more likely to be unemployed, rely on benefits, to be abused, raped, and have their children taken from them. She says austerity has both caused and increased their problems. Frances explains to Jane why she believes austerity has harmed those women most in need. Her book, Crippled: Austerity And the Demonization of Disabled People has just been published by Verso.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.4	Hi, this is Jane Garvey and this is Women's Hour podcast.
0:08.2	It is Monday, the 3rd of June 2019.
0:11.2	Today we'll hear about how austerity has, according to our contributor, demonised, disabled
0:17.4	people.
0:18.4	That's Dr Francis Ryan.
0:19.4	You'll hear her in a moment or two.
0:21.6	Also on the programme today, the young adult author, Juno Dawson, who's written in her
0:26.1	most recent book about the modelling industry.
0:29.3	And it's called Meet Market, her book.
0:30.9	So I guess that tells you a little bit of that her view of the modelling industry.
0:34.3	We'll also celebrate coaches in women's sport this week, and we'll hear about what
0:39.2	it's like to have a child with Down syndrome in Tanzania.
0:43.2	First, though, austerity has led to the demonisation of disabled people.
0:48.0	This, according to the journalist and campaigner, Dr Francis Ryan, who says, disabled people
0:53.2	are treated these days as worthless scroungers, a drain on the public purse, and they're targeted.
0:58.8	She says, to take the greatest cuts.
1:02.0	It is worth saying that women are more likely to be disabled.
1:04.9	There are around six and a half million disabled women in Britain, compared to about five
1:10.3	and a half million disabled men.
1:12.9	And women's budget group back in 2018 did find that almost 60% of people claiming personal
1:18.8	independence payments are female.
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