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Disability & cultural analysis from Rebecca, a chronically ill woman with a degree in Disability Studies

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Disability Justice & Palestine

Genocide, the destruction of hospitals, and disability under rubble

Disability & Abandonment

It shouldn't be so common for chronically ill and disabled people to lose their friends.

The Intersection Between Race and Disability

Race should not be ignored when discussing disability

We Need Cross-Disability Solidarity, Not Lateral Ableism

On why we should learn about the experiences of disabled people that are different from our own

Thoughts on Chronic Illness & "Health Anxiety"

It's not irrational to have anxiety about illness, and patients shouldn't be condescended to for looking up our symptoms

Eugenics & American Immigration Policy: Past & Present

On immigration policy, disability, eugenics, & ICE

The Disability Arts Movement & Disability Art as Resistance

The history and present of the creative expression of disability pride

There Isn't Just One "Chronic Illness Experience"

On why I don't mourn the person I used to be or could have been (because I was a child when I became sick)

On the Threat to "Bring Back" Asylums

The history of asylums, present day psychiatric abuse, Olmstead, & the Independent Living Movement

Ableist Rhetoric in the World of “Brain Retraining,” “Neuroplasticity Programs,” and “Recovery Spaces”

Part two of my response to the Wired article "The Painful Truth About Long COVID"