In Fashion: Disabled Business Owners and the Disability Employment Gap

Cassie Lovelock

Dr Cassandra Lovelock (she/they) is a Black mixed-race wheelchair user living with chronic illness and ADHD. She is a scholar activist whose work focuses on ethical, lived experience-led research, education, and policy making practice within the fields of mental health, neurodiversity, unpaid care, disability, poverty and worklessness.

Find Cassie on Social Media: @soapsub - Instagram and x.com

You can check out Cassie’s work here: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/cassandra-lovelock

Tilly Dowler

Tilly is a disabled business owner who runs pre-loved clothing boutique Wanted Wardrobe (Studios 5b, Castle wall buildings, Clapgun St, Castle Donington, Derby DE74 2LE). Her shop is open to customers from Tuesday to Saturday. Tilly has Stargardt’s Disease, a progressive condition affecting central vision.

You can find Wanted Wardrobe on:

Instagram: @wanted_wardrobe_

Facebook: @wantedwardrobe1

Vinted: @WantedWardrobe23

TikTok: @wantedwardrobetilly

Online: www.wantedwardrobe.co.uk

 

Visit Leonard Cheshire's website: https://leonardcheshire.org/

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