This Week in Disability Representation: Examining Reality TV and Modern Drama
In “This Week in Disability Representation”, writer Brianna Schunk provides a space to examine the small examples of disability representation that pop up in daily life. This includes books, plays, TV shows, movies, and other forms of media. In this week’s edition of “This Week in Representation,” the writer will be examining the play Clybourne […]
Words Are Power: Poems About Youth & Disability
Truths In judgment, dare you call me incomplete? In spite, do you dare call me useless? In ignorance, do you dare call me deceitful? In hatred, do you dare call me unlovable? For, dearest stranger, the contrary is so: In love, I dare believe I am beautiful In awareness, I dare believe […]
Speaking with Chella Man and MaryV Benoit About Love, Life, & Identity
Editors note: We are one of 30 global youth platform partners in the launch of an initiative by Gucci’s CHIME FOR CHANGE and Irregular Labs to explore gender and our fluid future. Check out our newest content and as well as our platform partner link at the bottom of the page. An interview with Chella Man […]
My New Favourite Stuntman
Disabled athlete Justine Levene has found himself plastering the newspapers and internet in the last few days as a video of him dragging himself through Luton airport from 2017 appeared online. Levene is paraplegic and, like me uses a wheelchair full time. As happens far too often when flying, his wheelchair had been left behind. […]
Inaccessibility at Movie Theaters, Community Activism, and More with Ace Ratcliff
Image Description: An illustration of an empty movie theatre. The screen is projecting the symbol for Closed Captioning. People with disabilities are constantly facing accessibility issues. Whether that’s building access with wheelchair ramps, hearing accessibility and captions, audio translation for those with sight loss, these options are difficult to find. Ace Ratcliff, a writer and […]
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 […]
Why Ableist Stigma Has Made Me Feel Obligated to ‘Come Out’ as Disabled
Image Description: Watercolor illustration of a person sitting alone in a large, pink forest. Person is in the foreground and illustrated very small. The forest is in the background, purposefully painted largely. It goes unsaid, yet it remains true that the majority of the time people expect it from people their default mental picture of […]
The World on Wheels: Traveling with a Disability
Image Description: A photo of a subway train, and blurry subjects moving towards and from the subway. So I’m off to America for three weeks – starting in New York, then working my way down to New Orleans via Washington, Memphis, and Jackson. I’ll be honest with you, I’m a real food lover and impulse-booked […]
Turtles All The Way Down: The Truth About Thought Spirals
Image Description: Picture of the physical copy of, Turtles All the Way Down, sat on a barstool against a blurred brick backdrop. This summer I had the privilege of reading John Green’s new book, Turtles All the Way Down. The book is about a young woman who is investigating the disappearance of local billionaire Russell […]
6 Ways Colleges Could Accommodate People With Chronic Illness Better
This article was originally published on The Mighty. After having to take time off to get a diagnosis for and to treat a chronic illness, part of me feels scared to back to university, especially because I am transferring to a new school where I know nobody. Frankly, I am someone who is naturally an anxious […]