So, it’s once more time for A Chronic Voice’s monthly linkup. This month’s words are unlocking, limiting, studying, healing, and watching. This month, it felt really appropriate to focus in on our ability, as disabled folks, to help embody the changes that could help our country heal. Covid-19 has served to highlight the inequalities and…
With the Black Lives Matter protests and events are occurring as part of a call for justice, I want to do my part to help the movement. While police brutality is what triggered this movement, there are a lot of complex roots underlying it. This post focuses on the disabled angle. As a disabled person,…
This post doesn’t apply to everybody, but I think most of us likely know a person or two who could use this advice. What I’m talking about is mostly applicible to people stuck in a victim mentality, but it is something that any of us with disabilities need to step back and reflect on every…
This is Pride month, and while I want to celebrate, I feel it is more important to discuss injustice and oppression. With the protests(and occasional rioting) that is going on all over the US, I feel it’s important to discuss the intersectionality of the LGBT community, and how the community has, in large part, erased…
When I started writing last week’s post on ableism, I recognized that the single behavior that bothered me most was this man’s insistence that his disability was the heart of the problem, followed by his insistence that he was the victim. This post digs into the victim identity, and the emotional shift from having been…
Ableism is a large issue and one that occurs within the community as well as outside of it. Over the past few months I have been processing through a series of negative interactions and now that the issue is concluded, feel that I can glean some important lessons from it and move myself forward from…
This is the third of three posts on how to answer the question ‘is it genetic?’ While the first post discussed spontaneous changes that just happen(genetic conditions), and the second discussed specific known hereditary genetic mutations, this third post digs into hereditary conditions, which are likely influenced by our genes, but either is the result…
This is the second of three posts on how to answer the question ‘is it genetic?’ While the first post discussed spontaneous changes that just happen, as exemplified by the loss or addition of chromosomes, this second post digs into what many people tend to focus on with the ‘is it genetic’ question: traits that…
So, ‘it’s genetic’ or ‘it may be genetic’ are terms that get tossed around a lot about many different conditions. This post is the first of three-part series about gene-related abnormalities. The three big categories I’m going to write about are abnormal numbers of chromosomes, identifiable genetic abnormalities, and inherited genetic tendencies. For all three…
Once more, I am participating in A Chronic Voice’s monthly linkup. February prompts: ditching, invigorating, playing, joining, looking. This post muses about two major topics: BiRequest and turning my blog into a business. I’m excited about both things, and hoping that the steps I am taking in both spaces will lead to a better future for…