Accessible Adventures in TTRPGs with Sara Thompson

Movies. TV shows. Holiday commercials, even. For the first time in history, the integration of disabled bodies in popular culture is more pronounced than ever. And what better place to add in disabled representation than in fantasy TTRPGs, where anything can happen? This is what designer Sara Thompson (she/they) sought to do with their design of […]

Divergent: A Poem

Divergent   Counting sheep to fall asleep, In dismay, unable to slip away.   Thoughts upon gestures of The sheep keep clambering At slumbers bay.   The bleating echo’s lay Ephemeral, yet they stay.   Dreamless sleep in waking day. The inner voice ‘Not I!’, I pray.  

Pause, Rewind, The Tales of a ‘Deaf Girl’

Illustration by Damaris Contreras Deaf girl … and I can’t hear your words –  kettle whistles, chair scrapes on wooden floor, and your lips move across the table telling me… Something. again I plug in my tape player –           microphone of my lips,           switches of […]

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 […]