For the last few years, myself and a team of volunteers at Media Diversity Australia have pooled our skills, knowledge and lived experience of disability to develop a tool for journalists to use in the media landscape and I am proud to introduce the Disability Reporting Handbook. It was my honour to MC the online […]
Category: diversity
F Magazine: Fashionable
Back in 2018, I was featured in F Magazine’s article written by Cherie Cheah. The full link is below. This year, multi-awarded writer and amputee Lisa Cox will be gracing the runaway at FashionAble, one of Brisbane’s premier fashion events. Hosted by Brisbane fashion icon Di Cant, this year’s runway fashion parade and photographic exhibition FashionAble […]
Behind The Seams Of Diversity And Storytelling Fashion
This is an article I wrote for a New York based digital-magazine, Reverie. The full link is listed below. Communication from fashion labels is no longer limited to a single billboard in Times-Square, a one-off editorial spread in your favorite magazine or seasonal launch at NYFW. Online platforms like Instagram have allowed labels to tell […]
The Year That Changed My Life.
This article was published in Harper’s Bazaar (Australia) 4 Nov 2019. At 24, model and writer Lisa Cox got a rare infection that put her in a coma and left her with multiple disabilities. Here, she relates how she was forced to hit restart on her life, and how she is playing her part in […]
‘Love Is Love’ But Hate Is Hate
Quite frankly, how you choose to respond to your marriage quality survey is none of my business so I’m not about to try and convince you either way. I won’t be partaking in the parade of propaganda currently moving across our great southern land – and also across the Sydney sky, as of late. Instead, […]
What Australian Media Forgot In The Diversity Debate
This was originally published in The Huffington Post on – 11 December, 2017. It was republished in The Sydney Morning Herald on January 1, 2018. The senior journalist scanned me with scepticism and momentarily dropped her professional poker-face. With raised eyebrows and poorly concealed disbelief, she ushered me into the studio for filming. That […]
What It Felt Like When I Died
“Don’t be afraid your life will end. Be afraid it will never begin.” – Grace Hansen This isn’t a morbid post. I promise. Have you ever thought about what happens when you die? I hadn’t thought about it until it happened to me – twice. I mean I literally died. That’s not to be confused […]
Why Healthy Inspo Could Make You Unhealthy
When you think of women’s health and wellness, you might think of those stereotypical images. You know the ones. It’s hard to miss them, especially on social media. Health and wellness (including everything from food to fitness and activewear) all looks identically picture perfect. You might see a perfectly proportioned woman who is perfectly poised […]
