This is the newsletter where crip, queer & misfit bodies talk back.

What’s Body Babble?

Body Babble is the newsletter where crip, queer & misfit bodies talk back.

I’m Celestine, the author. Every other week (-ish… TBC), I publish a new newsletter about how disability, health or queerness interacts with culture and politics. Body Babble is about exploring our differences, shedding taboo and talking back to the mainstream media representation of our bodyminds—which is so often sterile, harmful, and always… a bit… uncool.

Body Babble is chatty, curious and excited. To me, there’s nothing more exciting than learning about the wildly different ways we all perceive and experience the world.

Why subscribe?

The best way to make sure you never miss an update is to subscribe: every new post is sent directly to your email inbox. Right now, Body Babble is completely free to read. So if you want me to keep writing, subscribing is the best way to support my work!

Who’s behind Body Babble?

Hello again!

I’m Celestine Fraser, the author. I’m a writer and filmmaker who’s spent the last decade telling stories about health, the body, disability and identity. Oh and I’m from London, UK.

A photo of Celestine, a 30 year old white woman with dark brown hair in a bob. She's wearing a black t-shirt, white trousers, and is sitting at a table with one knee up and one hand on her knee. She looks relaxed and has a wide smile.

Over the last 9+ years, I’ve worked with different people, in different mediums, for different platforms. My writing has been published in VICE, Metro, and Little White Lies, and my films have been programmed on the BBC, at the BFI and Barbican, and at film festivals around the world. I’ve also worked with lots of clients (charities, organisations and businesses) to help them communicate disability with their own audiences. And I’ve been honoured to win awards for my work.

But Body Babble is a completely new project. It’s a place where I can publish exactly the stuff I want to write, in my own voice, and with more of a relationship with my readers — without the endless pitching or need for a timely peg.

Say hello

What I love about the newsletter format is the back-and-forth.

I love hearing from readers — don’t be shy! Leave a comment underneath a newsletter. Send me a DM. Respond with an email (hello@justcopy.co.uk).

Or just lurk there forever and I’ll never know you exist.

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Celestine Fraser

@bodybabble

I'm a writer and filmmaker who's spent the last 9+ years telling stories about disability and identity (BBC, BFI, VICE, Disability Debrief etc). Now I write Body Babble, the newsletter where crip, queer & misfit bodies talk back.