"[3] Lisicki began showing signs of Stills disease around age 14, and spent more than a year in a specialty hospital using a wheelchair.

[3][9] According to Lisicki, "we used to dump the wheelchairs in the bushes and hitchhike to the pub [...] They'd be sending out search parties and we'd be down there having a vodka and lime.

[2] She co-founded the Tragic But Brave group with Holdsworth and Ian Stanton in the late 1980s, and they toured for years in the UK, Europe, and the United States.

[3] After ITV Studios began charity telethons, Holdsworth was asked to help organize protests against the depiction of disabled people.

[3] According to Lisicki, "These were hideous TV telethons that lasted something like 27 hours and portrayed disabled people in a manner where they should be pitied.

[3] In 1993, Lisicki, Holdworth, and Sue Elsegood became founders of the Disabled People's Direct Action Network (DAN).

[3][12] Protest locations included the Westminster Bridge,[3] the Nottinghamshire constituency office of Kenneth Clarke, Harrods, and the Tate Gallery.