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"For women like me, even the default narrative for women and girls—love, marriage and babies—makes people uncomfortable. I’m not supposed to have it. If I do, something perverse is happening, or else the man involved is a hero, sacrificing all the other choices he could have made to do ‘the good thing’ and be with me instead."

– Hannah Diviney, writer and disability advocate

Hannah Diviney is not afraid of controversy. In 2020, she launched a petition calling for Disney to create a Disney princess with disabilities, and quickly received support from none other than Reese Witherspoon, Jameela Jamil and 60k others. She has also - successfully – campaigned for Beyoncé and Lizzo to change derogatory lyrics.

Meet The Women Making Thousands From Their Wardrobes

BY CAROLINE ZIELINSKI

Now the writer and advocate has written a book. In I'll Let Myself In, Diviney articulates what's it's like to grow up disabled, the narratives she was handed, and why she’s making it her mission to defy them.

Meet The Women Making Thousands From Their Wardrobes

BY CAROLINE ZIELINSKI

Read an extract of Hannah Diviney's book at PRIMER.

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