User:Balance person/Jumoke Abdullah and Kym Oliver

Olajumoke (Jay) Abdullahi was born in Nigeria where she contracted polio before she was one year old. Now with scoliosis, she uses a leg brace and crutches. She writes a travel blog about what it is like to travel with a physical disability.

Kym Oliver is of African and Caribbean heritage. She has Multiple Sclerosis and uses a wheelchair.

Noting the paucity of representation of disability in films, TV, radio and adverts, and the even greater lack of representation of black disability, the two women created The Triple Cripples, in April 2018. This initiative is aimed at countering the under-representation. They chose the phrase triple cripples for their platform not only for its memorable rhyme but also as a way of reclaiming a word used to disparage those with physical disabilities. The word 'triple' refers to three aspects of identity, colour, gender and physical ability, that often lead to discrimination in, for example, encounters with healthcare providers, landlords, education or the general public.

Activism
In 2019 the two women gave the University of Oxford Annual Disability Lecture.

They have made podcasts featured on a number of platforms, have a YouTube channel and are often interviewed.

In 2020, The Triple Cripples were part of WOW (Women of the World) 10th anniversary Festival.

In 2021 they took part in the London Podcast Festival. They were listed in the 2021 Shaw Trust Power 100.

In 2021, Penguin Books announced that The Triple Cripples would feature in #Merky Books’ Superheroes. Superheroes is an illustrated book that highlights and celebrates over 50 iconic Black and Asian British people.

Their highlighting of the narratives of Black, disabled women have been captured in podcast form by the British Library.

In 2022 they contributed a 13 page chapter to an e-book published by Routledge entitled 'Lovingly Constructed Media Nation-States'.

Balance person (talk) 09:37, 6 November 2022 (UTC)