
Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future
Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future Ingrid Tischer Reasons, I’ve got a few. But this still-current guidance from the CDC … Continue Reading Why I Won’t Be Organizing Any In-Person Fundraising Events For the Foreseeable Future

What Will Never Be Again
What Will Never Be Again Jane Shi Content notes: suicide, genocide, deaths in long-term care, serophobia, medical abuse, labour exploitation, overdose deaths Dionne Brand’s piercing article “On … Continue Reading What Will Never Be Again

My MS and Me
My MS and Me Carolyn Hinds I’m not sure where or how I should start this essay. As I sit in bed with my laptop resting on the … Continue Reading My MS and Me

May 2022 Philips Recall Summary
In the summer of 2021, Philips Respironics issued a recall notification of a number of their CPAP, BiPap, and ventilators in the United States. A group of disabled people … Continue Reading May 2022 Philips Recall Summary

Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine
Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine s.e. smith My first experience with Bitch Magazine was seeing it peeping out from around the corner of another publication in the magazine rack … Continue Reading Rest in Peace, Bitch Magazine

DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong
The cat is out of the bag! My follow-up anthology to DISABILITY VISIBILITY will be DISABILITY INTIMACY, a collection of writing about the relationships, communities, and intimacies of disabled people, … Continue Reading DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy
Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy Thomas Reid When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the world changed … Continue Reading Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore
Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore: It feels like I am seeing a guy stick his head into an alligator’s mouth … Continue Reading Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No
We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No Jocelyn Mondragon-Rosas Spoiler alert: I will be discussing the whole film, characters, and storyline from the Disney film Encanto. … Continue Reading We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No

Perhaps They Won’t Have Died in Vain: The GRIM Project
Perhaps They Won’t Have Died in Vain: The GRIM Project Aislinn Thomas Content notes: death, euthanasia, filicide, medical ableism Since 2016, people in so-called Canada who are … Continue Reading Perhaps They Won’t Have Died in Vain: The GRIM Project

How radical acceptance of my disabled body made a mess (and clarity) of my gender acceptance
How radical acceptance of my disabled body made a mess (and clarity) of my gender acceptance A. Andrews Content notes: gender and body dysphoria I am … Continue Reading How radical acceptance of my disabled body made a mess (and clarity) of my gender acceptance

My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization
My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization Rebecca Cokley Content notes: cures, eugenics My name is Rebecca Cokley. My parents met in 1970 at … Continue Reading My Villain Origin Story: Break-up with My Disability Constituency Organization

Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism
Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism Christine Mitchell I’m tired. We’re all tired, collectively. It has been a long two years of heightened anxiety and isolation … Continue Reading Disabled People Are Tired: Public Health and Ableism

Crip Siblings: Interview with Chun-san (Sandie) Yi
Alice: Sandie, I am just so delighted to talk with you today and what I loved immediately is that you titled our Zoom meeting ’Crip Siblings’! Sandie: [laughs] Alice: And … Continue Reading Crip Siblings: Interview with Chun-san (Sandie) Yi
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Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence
Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence Marley Molkentin and Kennedy Healy Note from the authors: The below photos were taken in Winter and Spring of 2021 in … Continue Reading Care During COVID: Photo Essay on Interdependence

Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions
February 17, 2022 update: press release by Disabled Student Union and UCLA Student Body President Breeze Velasquez. We, the Disabled Student Union, the Mother Organizations Coalition, and Undergraduate … Continue Reading Hybrid Access Now: Statement by UCLA Student Coalitions