Writing

Since being published by her school literary magazine in Ontario, Canada at the age of nine, Mathy has been a keen writer. She regularly writes essays, articles and op-ed pieces based on her own lived experiences of disability, and on topics ranging from representations of difference in media, to breaking down social perceptions and barriers to access, to politics and health. The intersection of disability and popular culture is a topic she is particularly interested in, from her days in academia researching the politics of representing disability in Spanish culture.

To discuss writing projects, please contact her here.

ESSAYS AND ARTICLES

2022: ’Do Faster Win More’; A Response - National Paralympic Heritage Trust and Arts&Heritage
2021: COP26: accessibility is not difficult to get right - Muscular Dystrophy UK Blog
2018: Vote100 and Rosa May Billinghurst - Muscular Dystrophy UK Blog
2018: Living in the White Spaces: A Note on (in)Equality - Medium
2017: 'It's A Fight To Tread Water Every Day': Surviving To Thriving With a Disability - HuffPost UK
2016: The Paralympics Did Inspire Me But Not In The Way You Might Think - HuffPost UK
2016: The Mental Health of Young Disabled People Should Not Be Ignored (Young Minds Matter series) - HuffPostUK (guest edited by HRH Duchess of Cambridge)
2016: Why I Will Always Have a Problem With Disability in Film: My Case Against ‘Me Before You’ - Medium
2012: "Locked Out" Trailblazers' Report into Accessible Housing - Muscular Dystrophy UK

OTHER Press

2016: Don’t forget the most under-represented group in our democracy - disabled people - New Statesman Interview
2015: 'I worried that he wouldn't find me attractive': the challenges of dating with a disability - Telegraph Feature Article