No, NPR, More Pain Is Not The Answer For Teens With Chronic Pain
Far too often, I and many other people with chronic pain have heard that we just need to “push through” the pain and keep going. This is especially prevalent among teenage girls. Our current society holds an image of teenage girls in its mind; lazy, dramatic, and emotional, which makes it harder for us to […]
Microsoft Releases Adaptive Controller for Xbox, Takes “Control” of Disability Market
The Super Bowl provides companies with an opportunity to have their voices heard and their products seen by millions of people in one night. Microsoft took full advantage of this visibility by releasing a commercial for their newest product – the Xbox Adaptive Controller. ID: The Xbox Adaptive Controller. A sleek rectangular controller, white with […]
Thank U, Next, & Mental Illness: How Ariana Grande’s Newest Album Is Relatable to Me and My Mental Health Journey
On February 8th, 2019, pop singer Ariana Grande released her fifth studio album, “Thank U, Next” with 12 songs, including three singles (“thank u, next”, “Imagine”, and “7 Rings”). It’s fair to say this is a memorable one, with each individual song already within Apple Music’s Top 20 charts. As I listened, I noticed the […]
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 […]