The world has never been good for me. I cannot make my life great again because my life never was great. I’ve had little pockets of happiness from time to time, but overall my entire life has been a fight to survive. It has been a fight to be recognized…
While therapy can be helpful for some, for others it can be hard to find therapists that are safe to work with.
People say words don’t hurt, but some words can do a lot of damage.
A look at how history and how I was raised impact my idea of gender, as well as my own personal gender identity.
Dear Pam, It’s Mother’s Day. This is a day I once felt great pain over, but now I feel indifference. When was the last time we talked on a Mother’s Day? 2003 perhaps? It’s been years. I should have written this letter years ago, but I am not sure I…
So often disabled kids and LGBTQ kids are tormented, teased, and excluded. Some of them kill themselves. What would have happened if others were there for them?
Some of my thoughts on what happened in Orlando. We could have prevented this tragedy.
For the first time in American history, the president acknowledged that LGBT disabled people exist, and have unique needs and issues that need to be addressed.
A recent article on Mic reminded me of something I have spoken about many times before, but never with consideration to actual policy. The article explores the lack of care that disabled women receive in relation to mammograms, and how this disproportionately affects the rate of women with disabilities who…
For many of us privilege and oppression are not mutually exclusive. I face multiple intersections of oppression personally. I am oppressed for being disabled both with physical and invisible disabilities. I am oppressed for being transgender. I face discrimination for being a quip (a queer crip). I grew up in…
