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The Ableist Abuse of Love Island’s Tasha Needs to Stop

TW: This article includes descriptions of threats of violence towards deaf and disabled women, particularly Tasha from Love Island.


There’s a photograph drifting around the internet of Love Island star Tasha Ghouri as a young child in a fairy fancy dress costume. Before she knew about the evils awaiting her, in a statement underneath, her father conveyed the scale of ableist and sexist abuse aimed at the islander in recent months.     

A photograph of a child accompanied by a note not to call her grown-up self a “Deaf wh*re.”      

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Disabled Representation on Love Island Could be Monumental but Society’s Ableism Won’t Let It

TW: ableism and inspiration porn


Ahead of the new series of Love Island returning to our screens tomorrow, the line up was announced last week. It’s supposedly their “most diverse” cast to date, including the show’s first physically disabled contestant, PE teacher Hugo Hammond from Hampshire, who has played disability cricket for England.