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What does it mean to be disabled?
We caught up with Grace Spence Green - doctor, disability activist, and author - to talk about disability, politics and her new book 'To Exist as I Am: A Doctor's Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance' ✨
Pick up your copy at Wellcome Collection's bookshop 📚
[Alt text: We're watching a video of Grace speaking directly to the camera in our Reading Room – a nice, cosy, space with books, lounge chairs and bean bags. She has long brown hair and wears red lipstick, round yellow glasses, and a sweater-vest-shirt combo. She is sitting in her wheel chair with one leg crossed over the opposite knee.]
What does it mean to be disabled?
We caught up with Grace Spence Green - doctor, disability activist, and author - to talk about disability, politics and her new book 'To Exist as I Am: A Doctor's Notes on Recovery and Radical Acceptance' ✨
Pick up your copy at Wellcome Collection's bookshop 📚
[Alt text: We're watching a video of Grace speaking directly to the camera in our Reading Room – a nice, cosy, space with books, lounge chairs and bean bags. She has long brown hair and wears red lipstick, round yellow glasses, and a sweater-vest-shirt combo. She is sitting in her wheel chair with one leg crossed over the opposite knee.]










![How do you get the bearded Victorian look if you cant grow a beard? #shorts
Well, you could have resorted to a beard wig attached with mechanical whiskers or, if you were feeling optimistic, then you might have reached for Crinutriar.
Although Crinutriar promised that thousands...who were once utterly destitute of beards and whiskers [could] now have those attributes of manhood, the truth was these types of products smelt foul, and were even potentially poisonous ☠️
To find out more about the Victorian gentleman’s grooming routine, head to our YouTube for our full-length tutorial with makeup artist Dominic Skinner, and watch him transform into the spitting image of his great great uncle, Thomas Hardy.
And if you’re London-based, come see some of these products in their real-life glory at The Cult of Beauty. Our latest exhibition running until 28th April 2024.
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