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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 special cushion I use for it on my legs, I’m filled with a multitude of emotions and physical sensations.
Emotionally, I’m nervous about how vulnerable I want to be sharing my experiences as a chronically ill disabled Black woman living with Relapse-remitting Multiple Sclerosis (RRMS,
moreRest 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 at Tangents, the local alternative store. It wasn’t the first issue, but it was close. Tangents sold things such as obscure magazines with limited distribution, gag gifts, weird postcards, boxes of nag champa incense, and toe rings. I ambled in to read Adbusters in
moreThe 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, published by Vintage Books coming out 2023-24. For more, check out the book’s page and subscribe to my newsletter for updates. I am sooooo excited!!!
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moreMaking 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 forever and a spotlight shined on systemic inequality in areas such as the following:
Police brutality and systematic racism Inequitable healthcare Overworked and dissatisfied employees
That spotlight radiated outward enabling others to see new possibilities. Working from home, an accommodation to some and
moreTwo years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore
Anna Hamilton
As a multiply disabled person, over these last two years I have come to an uncomfortable conclusion: I can’t trust nondisabled people, as a group.
Like many people in the disability community, I am high-risk according to the Center For Disease Control’s (CDC) list of health conditions that put people at risk for complications or death
moreWe 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.
Like Pixar’s Coco, my family and I were thrilled for Disney’s Encanto. I remember watching the trailer to Encanto and being enamored with all of the vibrant colors, familiar language, and nostalgic feeling of being at home with family. Without seeing the movie, I instantly
moreHow 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 writing from a coffee shop, my favorite one in the Twin Cities, sipping an iced vanilla latte. This is a thing I do every morning when I am out of the hospital and in the real world—a reward I offer myself for waking up every
moreMy 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 a little people convention. My mom was a redhead flower child, from the San Francisco suburbs where she grew up as 1 of 9 kids in an Irish Catholic family. My dad was the son of a federal judge in Selma, Alabama. He had all
moreDisabled 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 as we learn how to live within a global pandemic leaving nearly a million people dead in the US – far more than any other country in the world. We’re burnt out from all of the ways that COVID has forced change in our lives.
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