Katherine Gillespie Sells
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Katherine Gillespie Sells | |
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| Born | 3 February 1951 |
| Occupation(s) | Psychotherapist, disability rights activist, LGBT rights activist |
Katherine Gillespie Sells (b. 3 February 1951) MBE is a psychotherapist, writer, disability rights campaigner and LGBT rights campaigner from the United Kingdom. In 1990, she founded REGARD, a national, volunteer-run organisation of disabled lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender people.[1]
Sells was a ward sister at Barnet General Hospital when she became disabled as a result of a splinter in her finger, which led to septicaemia, a multi-day coma and the loss of the finger.[2] This led to spinal thecal arachnoiditis that put her in a wheelchair. She re-trained as a teacher, completing a Certificate in Education at Middlesex University. Sells was Joint Head of Training with Jane Campbell (later Baroness Campbell of Surbiton) at Disability Resource Team in Camden.
Works
She co-authored:
- The Sexual Politics of Disability with Tom Shakespeare and Dominic Davies
- She Dances to Different Drums.
