Author: James Hirsch

I’m a wheelchair user with an interest in history and social justice, particularly in making them accessible to everyone. Queercrip politics and transhood are also things I cover a lot in my art and writing. Cripple Punk, learning disabled, and Pseriously Psychotic.

10 Tips for Studying When You’re Disabled

Image Description: An opened book laying in the foreground, with a pen in the middle of the book. Underneath the book is a journal with handwriting scribbled on it. Behind the foreground subjects is a blurred background of a bookshelf.  School is hard. September is a stressful time of year. People have expectations of you […]

My First Partner Left Me Because of My Disability

This is about how abled people can be flakes, and my ex-boyfriend is a jerk, yes, but also how my reality is considered a worst-case scenario for some people. It’s a terrifying what-if, a possibility so terrible and with such frightening ramifications that my ex partner had to run to save himself. The surprising thing: […]