Labor Pains In honor of Labor Day, I thought it was only appropriate to dedicate this week’s blog posting to employment and disability. Twenty-five years…Read More

Problematic Poster Child According to shootingtracker.com, the world’s only crowdsourced mass shooting tracker, there have been 225 mass shootings in 2015. That’s 225 incidents in…Read More

Disability Integration Act As many of you may know, America just celebrated twenty-five years since passing the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA provided…Read More

Handle With Care For many of us, we wear many hats: we’re moms, dads, students, employees, writers, committee chairs, pet owners, volunteer coordinators, and movers…Read More

As the heat outside begins to increase, so do the opportunities to experience disability culture. Some people only see ‘disability’ as something in need of…Read More

The smell is always the first thing you notice. It’s a mixture of urine masked with bleach. But urine can’t be masked. So it’s more…Read More

The Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) has recently announced that it will no longer be hosting its annual ‘Jerry Lewis Telethon’ to raise money towards finding…Read More

Disability3 I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be disabled, and, consequently, what it means to be a ‘good’ disabled person,…Read More

Women with disabilities are three times as likely to be raped, physically abused or sexually assaulted. 70-80% of people with psychiatric disabilities and 40-80% of…Read More

Fix Cracks Not Crips I sometimes feel like I’m a broken record, repeating over and over that just because a body is disabled, it does…Read More

Why I’m Not Buying Death with “Dignity” This blog is in response to the March 18th New York Times Op Ed by Barbara Coombs Lee,…Read More

Picture This I was recently sitting with a group of disabled people in a crowded mall. We were all squeezed tightly around a food-court table…Read More

Disability as Diversity: Round Peg, Round Hole? HBO recently announced the upcoming launch of its HBO Access Writing Fellowship, inviting emerging writers from diverse backgrounds…Read More

A Delicate Balance: Parenting, Disability and Public Policy Molly and Tom have been dating for 3 years and have recently gotten engaged. Before tying the…Read More

Reasonable Accommodations Not Unreasonable Violence Teresa Sheehan, a woman with schizophrenia living in a group home in San Francisco, recently came across the San Francisco…Read More