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Mother Tongue is a memoir-in-progress by Nicki Pombier about disability, motherhood, and language, with stories posted on Tuesdays, every two weeks.

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Mildly Normal

Comedy, control and who's in charge, from Janet McNamara to Roland Johnson and Gunnar and Rosemary Dybwad

Pride and Pleasure and More Capacious Norms

Reading Harriet McBryde Johnson for Disability Pride month.

The Jolly Jokester

Our cheeky kid, the 504 sit-ins, and communication in disability as a form of love, subversion and solidarity.

Love Letters

"I will be hopeful with you. Let's be alongside each other."

Wild Gods Passing

On singing together, panic and unpanic, and staying with the unknown

The Grand Tradition of Fighting for Access to Education

Disabled needs are not public drain.

Commencement

On beginnings

Let it Be

On oral history beyond speech, and the music of the human voice

Perchance to Dream

The Hamlet I didn't expect

Son as Syllabus Intervention

On play as a way to be wide awake, and the joy of being a body