The world has never been good for me. I cannot make my life great again because my life never was great. I’ve had little pockets of happiness from time to time, but overall my entire life has been a fight to survive. It has been a fight to be recognized…
Disabled people are the world’s largest marginalized group, and yet often some of the most excluded people in the world. Imagine your most basic needs as a human. Water. Shelter. Access to go to the bathroom in a safe and sanitary environment. These should be a given for everyone. Everybody…
While therapy can be helpful for some, for others it can be hard to find therapists that are safe to work with.
As we have seen in many other individualized disabled communities, parents of kids with SMA tend to have little understanding of the lives that adults with SMA lead. For years, those of us with SMA have had to listen to parents of kids with SMA attempting to educate us about…
The MDA telethon needs to be ended for good for the benefit of all of us with neuromuscular disabilities.
People say words don’t hurt, but some words can do a lot of damage.
When I was in film school, nobody would work with me. That is, unless they were forced to work with me. One of the women in my class once told me that no one would work with me because the other students did not think I was capable of helping…
A look at how history and how I was raised impact my idea of gender, as well as my own personal gender identity.
The budget that Trump is proposing, and replacing the ACA with the AHCA, will both lead to many disabled people being put in nursing homes or they will end up dead.
The disability rights movement changed my life. I have been benefiting from legislation fought for by disabled activists who came before me since I was a young child. Like Mike Ervin and various other activists, I am a former poster brat, a kid pimped out for profit by the machine…
