CategoryGuest Blog Posts

A still from the animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch featuring the main characters from left to right: Crosshair, Echo, Hunter, Tech, and Wrecker. In the foreground on the lower right corner is the back of Omega, a young girl

Posted August 2, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch

Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch Dr. Johnathan Flowers Content notes: eugenics, applied behavioral analysis, torture, genetic manipulation, ableist terminology Spoilers below for The Bad Batch season … Continue Reading Supercrips, Solidarity, and Crip Families in The Bad Batch

Graphic with a navy blue background featuring a photo of Sandy Ho sitting in her power wheelchair in the middle of a field of green grass, with houses blurred in the background. She has short dark wavy hair and tortoise shell glasses on. Sandy is wearing maroon shoes, plaid pants, a dark gray cardigan, and a button-up blue and white striped collar shirt. She is smiling at the camera with her hands in her lap.

Posted July 25, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Moving From Survival

Moving From Survival Sandy Ho Editor’s note: This op-ed by the author was recently rejected by The New York Times’ (NYT) opinion section. In the midst of the … Continue Reading Moving From Survival

Graphic with a yellow background featuring a photo of a Black woman with curly natural, black hair and glasses in a blue chambray suit and white and blue polka dot top standing on crutches in an office.

Posted July 25, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Major Keys

Major Keys Britney Wilson In my sophomore year of high school I was nominated to attend the National Young Leaders Conference (NYLC) in Washington, D.C. The four-day conference … Continue Reading Major Keys

Qudsiya is wearing a blue dress and standing beside plants in front of a building on a city street.

Posted July 25, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire

Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire Qudsiya Naqui Content notes: ableist and sanist language, eugenics, suicide, medical neglect, suffering, abuse, violence, incarceration I first became interested … Continue Reading Disabled Immigrants: Living on the Edge of Barbwire

Posted July 12, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

We Move Together

We Move Together: Interview with Kelly Fritsch Megan Linton We Move Together is a joyful new children’s book about disability community and culture. In conversation with one of the … Continue Reading We Move Together

J. Logan Smilges, a white gender nonconforming trans person with a mustache, looks toward the camera without smiling. They are wearing a long-sleeve white shirt with ruffles down the middle and black pants with a checkered print. Photo credit: Darius Stokes

Posted July 6, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Pride Feelings

Pride Feelings J. Logan Smilges By the time this essay goes live, the United States will have emerged from LGBTQ Pride Month into Disability Pride Month. Most years I … Continue Reading Pride Feelings

The Chinese character for self (自/zì) and the character in can (可/kě) with the traditional Chinese character for love (愛/ài) inside the character for mouth (口/ kǒu). The letters are black and are centred on a translucent white inset rectangular background in front of a background of an abundant bush of leaves and pink-white roses.

Posted June 13, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue

Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue Jane Shi Content notes: child abandonment, abusive adoptive parents, anti-Asian violence and misogyny, mass shooting, ableist slurs and language, forced restraint of autistic people, … Continue Reading Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue

Posted June 8, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice

Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice Disability Justice in Canada amidst a time of pandemic Megan Linton Content notes: genocide, systemic ableism, medical aid in dying, eugenics, institutionalization, … Continue Reading Disability, Death & the Fight for Justice

Graphic with a coral orange background featuring a tarot card of The Graduate illustrated by Kat Woodward. The Graduate is at once grounded in the earth and floating in space, surrounded by pieces of paper scattered to the wind. In the center is a figure with a graduation cap perched carefully atop their head and a burgeoning phoenix at their chest. Behind the Graduate are two winding paths and a gilded, golden cage with flowers blooming from its partially broken bars.

Posted June 3, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

The Graduate tarot card

The Graduate By Anna Landre, Madeleine Gibbons-Shapiro, & the Georgetown University Disability Studies Class of 2021 To commemorate and reflect upon our college graduation, members of the Georgetown University … Continue Reading The Graduate tarot card

Photo of an ambulance on a highway with hues of red and blue light

Posted April 19, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

The New National Mental Health Crisis Line Wants to Track Your Location

The New National Mental Health Crisis Line Wants to Track Your Location L. Harris Content warnings: Police violence against mad and disabled people; involuntary mental health interventions … Continue Reading The New National Mental Health Crisis Line Wants to Track Your Location

Graphic with a black background showing an outline of the state of Texas in white. Surrounding it are lightning bolts in white in various sizes.

Posted March 23, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

The System is Down

The System is Down: The Ableism of Texas’ Power Grid, Covid Response, and Disability Representation Adam Hubrig On February 15, 2021 around the tenth hour without power in my … Continue Reading The System is Down

Graphic with a purple background featuring a photo of Kaalyn who is sitting looking to the camera with a light smile and forefinger to chin. She has purple chin-length hair, loosely curled, minimal makeup, and two black snakebite piercings at the lip. She's wrapped in a black and white decorative blanket in front of a wall of very colorful abstract art.

Posted March 22, 2021 Guest Blog Posts

What the Disabled Community offered the world

Social media can be overwhelming and aggravating at times. I’ve also learned and appreciated being connected with so many amazing disabled people online that I would never get the chance … Continue Reading What the Disabled Community offered the world