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	[[File:Lisa Egan.jpg\|thumb\|Lisa Egan\|alt=Lisa in a wheelchair]]'''Lisa Egan''' is a disability rights activist. She is originally from [[Cambridge]]. After trying and failing to be a Paralympic swimmer, Lisa moved to London to do a degree in Film Studies & Drama.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/writers/lisaegan.shtml</ref> Before having to give up work due to chronic illness she was a stand-up comedian, writer and commentator on disability issues.She writes a column for ''The Guardian''. where her areas of interest include popular culture and the social politics of disability.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/profile/lisa-egan</ref>		[[File:Lisa Egan.jpg\|thumb\|Lisa Egan\|alt=Lisa in a wheelchair]]'''Lisa Egan''' is a disability rights activist. She is originally from [[Cambridge]]. After trying and failing to be a Paralympic swimmer, Lisa moved to London to do a degree in Film Studies & Drama.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/writers/lisaegan.shtml</ref> Before having to give up work due to chronic illness she was a stand-up comedian, writer and commentator on disability issues.She writes a column for ''The Guardian''. where her areas of interest include popular culture and the social politics of disability.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/profile/lisa-egan</ref>

	She was ranked 78 in the [[Pink List 2012]]. The citation said:		She was ranked 78 in the [[Pink List 2012]] and 86 in the [[Pink List 2013]]. The 2013 citation said:
	:"~~The~~ disability-rights ~~activist~~, ~~who founded the~~ ''~~Where's~~ the Benefit'' ~~blog and podcast~~, ~~is certainly popular. She is a former stand-up comedian and received dozens of nominations in~~ the ~~public vote. Egan was honoured for her "bravery and experience" by those who wrote in~~."~~<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-ios-pink-list-2012-8216187.html</ref>~~		:"'Failed comedian. Failed writer. Failed academic. Occasional blogger. Leftie kinda activist. Telly addict. Speccy, disabled, gay Essex girl currently in Camden.' Or at least that’s how she describes herself on Twitter. Her disability-rights activist’s blog, ''Where’s the Benefit'', provides strong opposition to the government’s 'distressing war on disabled benefit claimants'."

	==External links==		==External links==
	*http://lisybabe.blogspot.co.uk/ Lisybabe's blog		*http://lisybabe.blogspot.co.uk/ Lisybabe's blog
			*http://wheresthebenefit.blogspot.co.uk/ ''Where's the Benefit'' blog.

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	'''Lisa Egan''' is a disability rights activist. She is originally from [[Cambridge]]. After trying and failing to be a Paralympic swimmer, Lisa moved to London to do a degree in Film Studies & Drama.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/writers/lisaegan.shtml</ref> Before having to give up work due to chronic illness she was a stand-up comedian, writer and commentator on disability issues.She writes a column for ''The Guardian'''. where her areas of interest include popular culture and the social politics of disability.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/profile/lisa-egan</ref>		[[File:Lisa Egan.jpg\|thumb\|Lisa Egan\|alt=Lisa in a wheelchair]]'''Lisa Egan''' is a disability rights activist. She is originally from [[Cambridge]]. After trying and failing to be a Paralympic swimmer, Lisa moved to London to do a degree in Film Studies & Drama.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/writers/lisaegan.shtml</ref> Before having to give up work due to chronic illness she was a stand-up comedian, writer and commentator on disability issues.She writes a column for ''The Guardian''. where her areas of interest include popular culture and the social politics of disability.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/profile/lisa-egan</ref>

	She was ranked 78 in the [[Pink List 2012]]. The citation said:		She was ranked 78 in the [[Pink List 2012]]. The citation said:

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'''Lisa Egan''' is a disability rights activist. She is originally from [[Cambridge]]. After trying and failing to be a Paralympic swimmer, Lisa moved to London to do a degree in Film Studies & Drama.<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/writers/lisaegan.shtml</ref> Before having to give up work due to chronic illness she was a stand-up comedian, writer and commentator on disability issues.She writes a column for ''The Guardian'''. where her areas of interest include popular culture and the social politics of disability.<ref>http://www.theguardian.com/profile/lisa-egan</ref>

She was ranked 78 in the [[Pink List 2012]]. The citation said:
:"The disability-rights activist, who founded the ''Where's the Benefit'' blog and podcast, is certainly popular. She is a former stand-up comedian and received dozens of nominations in the public vote. Egan was honoured for her "bravery and experience" by those who wrote in."<ref>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-ios-pink-list-2012-8216187.html</ref>

==External links==
*http://lisybabe.blogspot.co.uk/ Lisybabe's blog

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