Celestine Fraser
she/her
I’m a writer, copywriter, filmmaker and consultant. I’m the founder of Just Copy, a media company communicating disability. My work has been programmed on the BBC, screened at the BFI and Barbican, and published in VICE, Metro, NOWNESS and Little White Lies. I also work with organisations, brands and businesses to help them communicate disability to their audiences. In 2023, I was named the UK’s most influential disabled person in media and publishing by the Shaw Trust’s 2023 Disability Power 100.
Whether I’m writing, filmmaking or working with clients, my goal is always the same: to powerfully use language and storytelling to make disability engaging to everyone.
In my own life, I find that one of the biggest challenges of chronic illness is other people’s attitudes: so often, disability still makes people awkward or uncomfortable. But I feel passionately that disability is not only a universal experience, but a fundamental part of being human — so I intend to keep talking about disability in my work and trying to break the taboo.
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