International Women’s Day photoshoot celebrates the diversity of disabled women

Diverse group of women pose for International Women's Day photoshoot — These are the women we should celebrate this IWD (Picture: Shelley Richmond)

There is no one way to be or look like a womxn. But in images we often see advertised online, it’s usually conventionally attractive, able white women.

This International Women’s Day, a modelling agency which represents those with disabilities and visible differences is celebrating all kinds of women.

Zebedee Management has made headlines as they represent children with Down’s syndrome who have appeared in advertising for big name brands.

But they also represent adult women from different races, sizes, and abilities.

So they’ve come up with a stunning photoshoot featuring women who use wheelchairs, who were born with different conditions, the old, the young, those with large birthmarks, with skin conditions, hair loss, and others who look different.

The agency reports that disabled people are the most underrepresented minority in the media and that there are more fashion lines for pets than there are for people with disabilities and 8 in 10 disabled people feel underrepresented.

Zebedee says their models are different, ‘no ifs, no buts, no excuses’.

‘Talent and beauty don’t care how many legs you have or what condition you were born with,’ they say on their website.

‘As a specialist modelling agency, we’re passionate about redefining the perception of beauty, disability and diversity. And with the right opportunities and support, we believe amazing things can happen to amazing people.’