
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
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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
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
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
How CBT Harmed Me: The Interview That the New York Times Erased Alana Saltz In August, I was contacted by a reporter writing an article for the New York … Continue Reading How CBT Harmed Me: The Interview That the New York Times Erased
High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy Brianne Benness At this time last year, I didn’t know what to do about the flu vaccine. We were already in the thick of the pandemic: grieving … Continue Reading High-Risk Vaccine Hesitancy
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
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Ep_98_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS Today I’m in conversation with Alena Morales, who will graduate … Continue Reading Ep 98: Disabled Students
Statement Regarding State Policy on Vaccination of People with High-Risk Conditions We are very happy to see that the State of California shared a plan on February 12 to vaccinate … Continue Reading 2/24 Statement Regarding State Policy on Vaccination of People with High-Risk Conditions
Social media can be trash but it’s not *all* trash. I learn so much from people I follow on Twitter such as Tory Cross. Here is an interview with Tory … Continue Reading Q&A with Tory Cross
This has been a weird start to 2021, speaking for myself at least. As if surviving during a pandemic wasn’t challenging enough, high-risk people all over the US and globally … Continue Reading Q&A with Sabrina Epstein
Jamison Hill is a contributor to my anthology, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books) and I was delighted to interview him about his new memoir which … Continue Reading Q&A with Jamison Hill
https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/87_Ep_87_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS Today’s episode is on climate action with Kera Sherwood-O’Regan, an indigenous … Continue Reading Ep 87: Climate Action
The burden and consequences of self-advocacy for disabled BIPOC Aparna R. Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Aparna_R-ADA30InColor-The_burden_and_consequences_of_self-advocacy_for_disabled_BIPOC.mp3 The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed the year I was born and it … Continue Reading The burden and consequences of self-advocacy for disabled BIPOC
Decolonization as a Strategy for Accommodating Disabilities Rachel Setzer Content notes: colonization, genocide, intergenerational trauma Plain language summary https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Rachel_Setzer-Decolonization_as_a_Strategy_for_Accommodating_Disabilities.mp3 The story of my disabilities starts hundreds of years ago, when … Continue Reading Decolonization as a Strategy for Accommodating Disabilities
A Paradoxical History of Black Disease Cyrée Jarelle Johnson Content notes: slavery, white supremacy, racism, genocide, violence, death Just two months after the Civil War ended, freedmen … Continue Reading A Paradoxical History of Black Disease
How Colonial Visual Cultures Have Worsened This Pandemic and What Needs To Change Khairani Barokka The people holding parties instead of social distancing. The girl in my apartment building, … Continue Reading How Colonial Visual Cultures Have Worsened This Pandemic and What Needs To Change