I remember my supervisor telling me one day,
"The thing is, people don’t have awareness of their own mortality, but you do".
 
This is Angela Stienne.
 
I was in an (almost) empty train carriage, on a sunny Sunday evening, and on route to an event at Nottingham University, ready to get settled into a couple of hours of email catch-up. And instead I met Angela. And she’s remarkable.
 
“I like, in these moments, to think about the fact that the term diversability was coined for people like me, and so many others, who sometimes might not feel strong, and some nights not very brave, but are so incredibly defiant and face mortality so beautifully”
 
Read a part of her story here: