When Solstar opened in 2016, it's founders were determined to build a space where women could learn practical fighting skills without the machismo. While still a relatively small club, it boasts an average 50:50 gender ratio.

As with women of colour, historians have so far found a couple of examples of prominent disabled suffragettes and suffragists. One of these is Rosa May Billinghurst, who used a hand-propelled tricycle to get around after being left unable to walk by a childhood case of polio. She founded the Greenwich WSPU branch, took part in protests like the window smashing campaign of 1912, and was thrown into Holloway Prison on multiple occasions. “She did a lot for the movement and it’s regardless of her disability—she would have been doing things in the tricycle chair or not in the tricycle chair,” says Sheila Hanlon, an expert and historian at Cycling UK. Billinghurst reportedly used her tricycle to her advantage. “There’s loads of reports of her using her tricycle chair to basically ram the police at protests.”

“When I announced [my candidacy], I did so with a very clear understanding that we have to change the face of leadership,” she said. “We must elect more women, more people of color, and more people that represent the broad communities that are often left out our politics.”

“Historically, there’s been this notion that to run for political office—and this is most evident by looking at the most visible offices in the country: the federal offices and president—one has to have a long career in public service and a lot of policy experience,” Moses explains. “Given that the country in 2016 elected someone who had no policy experience and no career in public service and very little experience in any realm other than television and business, it just became clear that suddenly that’s not a requirement. And I don’t mean that in a partisan way.”

"People are very hungry for an open public discussion about what has occurred, why it occurs, and what can be done to affect change that really works," said the letter's organizers. "The letter was a rallying cry, to publicly speak out about a problem endemic to not only the art world, but the world at large."

"I've got something hard you can sit on," he replied. It's feels weird writing this now, what with me being a feminist journalist and all, but this didn't feel like a big deal. I knew what feminism was, obviously, because I'd studied it in textbooks. But the idea of applying feminism to my everyday life seemed laughable: a historical affectation, like using the word "prithee" or wearing a corset to work.

"There's always that rugged, white, disheveled man as the main character, and quite frankly I'm sick of it," Lopez says. "There has to be diversity: We live on a planet, not [in] one white country." Giving a voice to underrepresented minorities in gaming would be a crucial step in the right direction."