{"id":67560,"date":"2025-05-28T15:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/?page_id=67560"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T14:29:32","slug":"crip-ladywood","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/media\/meet-our-incredible-ambassadors\/crip-ladywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense Ambassador: Crip Ladywood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A drag artist sits in their wheelchair in a red satin background, holding a tiara in their left hand.\" class=\"wp-image-67561\"\/ style=\"object-position: 45.78% 22.69%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-450x450.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-1600x1600.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Crip-Ladywood-scaled-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-hs-group    margin-bottom-4xl\">\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>Crip Ladywood, one of the UK&#8217;s only wheelchair-using drag artists, rolled onto the Birmingham drag scene in late 2021 and has been going from strength to strength since, winning of Europe\u2019s biggest Drag King contest, ManUp!, in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crip first met the Sense family at Birmingham Pride, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/blog\/representing-sense-at-birmingham-pride\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">where the charity exhibited<\/a>, and was later invited to judge the Sense Awards 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When not in drag Crip&#8217;s alter ego Emma, has over a decade of experience in disabled peoples&#8217; activism and campaigning. A public speaker and educator, Emma is currently the Access Lead of Birmingham Pride, a director of Queer Stage Revolution, and a proud Equity member.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote is-style-primary-tint-10 has-x-small-font-size\"><blockquote><p>I am so thrilled to have been made a Sense Ambassador. As a genderqueer, bisexual, fat, neurodivergent, wheelchair user, I believe I bring a unique perspective to the drag world which touches on what it is to be proud of one&#8217;s existence and the importance of finding and treasuring moments of lightness and joy \u2013 Sense shares similar values and I\u2019m delighted to support the charity as it marks its 70<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p><cite><strong>Crip Ladywood<\/strong><\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/media\/meet-our-incredible-celebrity-ambassadors\/\">Our celebrity ambassadors.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s only wheelchair-using drag artists and activist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":70141,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"content_label":[],"class_list":["post-67560","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67560\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/70141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"content_label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sense.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_label?post=67560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}