Grazia talks to Dr Amy Kavanagh about her experiences of street harassment as a disabled woman. Read more on Grazia
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‘The scary thing is how unpleasant people can get,’ Amy continues, citing a time where a man threatened to throw her out under a car because she didn't want his help crossing the road. She believes that situations such as this happen because of society’s internalised ableism. ‘To onlookers you are an ungrateful disabled person and you're in the wrong,' she says.
Amy explains that people are either aggressive or sexually abusive to her about twice a month while she navigates the streets of London. ‘They rely on the fact that I can't get away easily, that I won't be believed because I can't identify them,’ she says, adding that the police have been ‘rubbish’ - ‘I have been told that I am confused, that it's just homeless people.’
After Amy began speaking about her experiences on Twitter, an academic called Dr Hannah Mason-Bish got in touch. She explained that there was no research into disabled women experiencing sexual harassment and hate crime.
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