Quite frankly, we disabled people are everywhere right now, but not in the way many of us would like. If we’re not wielding chainsaws and going on murderous rampages, then we’re plotting world domination from our wheelchairs and reveling in a variety of gruesome deaths. Read more
I wasn’t so focused on the painful bite of the needle anymore, or wondering when the session would end. I started to look forward to the distraction of the hurt. It was a hurt I could opt-into, one I could select. Read more
Memoirs of disability are often studies in suffering. But what I’ve found in my research is that normate readers don’t actually want to read stories of suffering—not by itself, at least. They want suffering-plus. They want some form of Aristotelian catharsis—a release. Read more
Or, why straws aren’t the problem you think they are. Read more
Cognitive disability is typically decorative in the horror genre. ‘Hereditary’ is one of the first horror films to complicate that narrative. Read more
‘I’m an amputee and this image is one of the first I’ve created that addresses what being disabled is, sans able-bodied expectations.’ Read more
The system around disability benefits is already broken — and it could soon get exponentially worse. Read more
Dare yourselves to reach in. Read more
Everyone knows about FOMO. But for me, JOMO has been far more interesting — and empowering. Read more
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