Dear Editors, Authors, and Supporters of The Mighty,
I have had several articles featured on your site. Bloggers that I greatly admire - both non-disabled parents of disabled children and disabled adults - have had pieces featured on your site.
Every time you approached me to republish an article on your site, I debated. The last time you approached me, I outlined my concerns in an...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Why This Latest "Heartwarming" Story Isn't So Heartwarming
Behold! The internet has exploded with a viral story about a disabled person again! A customer's interaction with an autistic employee is being called "heartwarming" and "amazing". As you may guess, I'm not impressed. Let's break this down, shall we?
The photo shows a...
Saturday, October 3, 2015
The Curious Case of Anna Stubblefield and DMan Johnson: Introduction and Intelligence
This is Part One in a series of posts discussing the trial of former Rutgers professor Anna Stubblefield. The series will be broken into four parts, with three parts each focusing on a different factor of the case. The fourth and final post will be an analysis of the impact that this case is likely to have on disability and civil rights, both legally and socially.
The disability community...
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Dear Special Education Majors: You Don't, Actually, Know Everything
Dear Special Education Majors,
Most of you have gone into this field because you want to work with disabled people in one capacity or another. So when you meet a Real! Live! Actual! Disabled Person! in the wild, you're eager to show off what you've learned. But here's the thing: I'm not your professor. You are not being tested. I'm not going to grade you. And...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
On Being "Ugly Disabled"
This piece has been an idea in the works in my head for a long time. At first I thought I wanted to write about being professional when looking professional means suppressing parts of your disability. That's touched upon here and may be a separate piece eventually. But what I really wanted to write about was the hierarchy of disability, the way that people who can sit up straight and use a manual...
Friday, May 1, 2015
My Most Visible Disability Has the Least Impact on Me (No, Really)
Blogging Against Disablism Day 2015 post! This is year....eight or nine for me, I think.
I am multiply disabled. I have cerebral palsy, anxiety disorder/OCD, and a fairly recent diagnosis of asthma. And those are just the ones with formal diagnoses or that are not incorporated within...
Sunday, April 19, 2015
ADA Generation Girl: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of the ADA
On July 26th, 1990, just shy of two years before I was born, the Americans With Disabilities Act was passed. On June 3rd, 1992, I arrived in this world three months prematurely, marking my status as a disabled person and placing me squarely in the ADA Generation - the first generation of disabled people to grow up with the ADA.
The ADA and I have together explored the unmitigated wonders of...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Inspiration Porn isn't Progress: A Response to Josephine Fairley
Imagine, if you can, a world where people with brown eyes are inherently superior to those with blue eyes (blue eyes encompassing all those with non-brown eye colors). People with brown eyes are stronger, faster, smarter. People with blue eyes are weaker, slower. They don't learn as well, or as fast. It's not their fault, of course. That's just the way it is.
In years...
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Walking Is Overrated: Learn to Love the Wheelchair
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