Disability Archives - Infinite Women

Elizabeth Legge

1600s English learned woman

Sara Davy Armbruster

1800s and 1900s American businesswoman and publisher

Alice G

Canadian asylum inmate labourer

Mabel Hubbard Bell

American venture capitalist and social reformer

Mary Cullen

Irish nun and founder of the magazine Virgo Potens

Mary Kate Callahan

She helped spearhead a lawsuit against the Illinois High School Association to allow disabled swimmers to take part in the state meet along with their able-bodied classmates.

Fiona Smith

Australian disability rights activist and lawyer

Although her work was hugely commercially successful, mostly through inexpensive reproductions on various items, her then-husband Walter Keane claimed credit for her paintings. It was only after their divorce that Margaret went public with her story of their abusive marriage. She later proved herself in a courtroom “paint-off,” in which Walter refused to participate.