Every person who's disabled, chronically ill, or just gets sick or injured a lot understands the self-doubt about the severity of their symptoms. After a recent bout of pneumonia, I'd like to reflect on the value of trusting your gut and how it helped me avoid the most severe outcomes.
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What is the Wildwood? Who knows it, who has been invited to its depths? Where can one access the Wood? Those answers are both simpler and far more challenging than you would think.
April is Autism Acceptance Month. As an Autistic advocate, organizer, educator, and creator, I think it's a great opportunity to talk about why this month exists. Hopefully, this broadens your understanding of the landscape of autism—and the importance of remembering it beyond April.
There are interesting things to be learned about the relationship between pain and fatigue. Things that both help people understand the real toll pain can have, and help those of us in pain remind ourselves to take it easy.
Disability Justice means Immigrant Justice, plain and simple. Justice for only some is not true justice. We may have fewer resources than our nondisabled counterparts, but if we can use them to be resisting illegal federal actions or uplifting other people, we should be doing so.
The items on this list are specifically not protests or items that require significant bodily resources. Many disabled people have bodily resources to spare, and many are currently doing so. But we all know those actions. So instead, this focuses on four other categories of resources and aid to support anti-ICE efforts
Blessed Solstice, dear readers! As 2025 comes to an end, I wanted to take an opportunity to share some of the texts and stories that have brought me joy this year.
These are lessons I have learned from sitting with the snow. Take from them what you will, and please, listen to the snow yourself. See what open secrets it imparts to you.
Patricia (Patty) Berne died on May 29, 2025. I never had the pleasure of meeting her. We were not friends, or even in the same social circles. Hundreds of miles separated us. But nonetheless I felt grief, pain, and a bit of emptiness.
Happy Disability Pride month! What do the colors on the Disability Pride flag mean? Where does the design come from? Read on to find out.
Ashton Rose 