Healthcare is Only Nice When it is Accessible to All
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…
Dear Non-Disabled People…Don’t be Afraid to be Disabled
Dear Non-disabled People, We have a lot to talk about, and I hope you will listen. I was amongst your ranks for the first two years of my life, although I don’t really remember that time. As such, my entire remembered life I have known that I was a person…
Hollywood Promotes the Idea it is Better to be Dead than Disabled
Few films make me as upset as The Sea Inside. It has been years since the first time I saw the 2004 Alejandro Amenábar vehicle, which stars Javier Bardem, as a real-life disabled man named Ramón Sampedro, a Spanish man who believed it was better to be dead than disabled….