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Harry Smith

Harry Smith

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Join date: Jun 4, 2026

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Harry Smith is a 28-year-old early-career journalist who entered the profession through the disability-focused nonprofit Ability Today, which trains disabled people for careers in journalism. He has written for publications including The Guardian and the Media Diversity Institute, as well as a range of disability-focused outlets, notably covering the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games.


Living with cerebral palsy and dyslexia has shaped both his journalism and the subjects he is drawn to. Years spent navigating disability, masculinity and performance have left him more comfortable than most with difficult conversations and uncomfortable truths.


Journalism rarely allows space for those experiences to become the story itself. Writing for Inspire the Mind offered an opportunity to articulate some of the observations and contradictions that emerge when disability and masculinity become deeply intertwined.

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Jun 10, 2026 ∙ 5 min
All My Insecurities on Parade: Masculinity, disability and identity
A perfect column of khaki moves across the concrete. 300 pairs of legs marching in unison, with military precision. If not for the basketball hoops on either end of our parade square, we would be indistinguishable from professional soldiers. The occasional adolescent voice crack of the parade sergeant not withstanding, we were that good, or at least so we all believed. I am right in the centre, where everyone can see.
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