How a Mystery Illness Cost One Writer a Decade of Health
“I thought I couldn’t remain in the box that was my body anymore — and yet I had to.”
Mar 2022
“I thought I couldn’t remain in the box that was my body anymore — and yet I had to.”
Jun 2021
For many people, after more than a year of the pandemic, travel feels like something to dread. But it can still mean liberation.
Apr 2021
Immune to the beauty of sign language, Bell never saw deafness as anything more than a deficit.
Jul 2020
On the disabilities that ramps and reserved parking spots don’t address.
Apr 2020
My advice to everyone is to sustain human contact whether you feel like it or not.
Apr 2020
I am in the sizeable part of the population who must seek to distinguish between ordinary fear and the beginnings of a breakdown.
Sep 2019
The burden of being perceived as different persists. The solution to this problem is community.
Jul 2018
Books require that people recount their emotions; documentaries require that people bare the same emotions in front of a film crew.
Nov 2017
How conflating ‘ideal’ and ‘average’ spawned flawed concepts of identity.
Oct 2017
To what extent is information about an unpreventable genetic disease that has not yet caused any symptoms a gift and to what extent is it a burden?