Women of Letters: Take risks, scare yourself stupid and have a shitload of fun

By Sarah Thomas
Updated January 15 2015 - 10:13am, first published January 10 2015 - 12:15am
<i>Between Us</i>, curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire.
<i>Between Us</i>, curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire.
Co-curators: Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Co-curators: Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy. Photo: Kate Geraghty
<i>Between Us</i>, curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire.
<i>Between Us</i>, curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire.
Co-curators: Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Co-curators: Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy. Photo: Kate Geraghty
<i>Between Us</i>, curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire.
<i>Between Us</i>, curated by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire.
Co-curators: Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy. Photo: Kate Geraghty
Co-curators: Michaela McGuire and Marieke Hardy. Photo: Kate Geraghty

"By the time I get to you," Stella Young wrote in a letter to her 80-year-old self, "I'll have written things that change the way people think about disability. I'll have been part of a strong, beautiful proud movement of disabled people in Australia."