The Author Who Shaped the Way We Represent Disability
Mainstream entertainment rarely allows people with disabilities to exist as we are. Jean Little’s work taught me there’s no shame in writing about our experiences
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Beauty Standards Are a Rigged Game
If I couldn’t be seen as both disabled and beautiful, I decided I’d win by becoming “the smart one”
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Belonging: Molly Burke
A sense of belonging, according to Burke, is not about changing her into an “able” person, but accommodating for all kinds of humans. It is society, not Burke, that needs to be fixed
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No Vacancy
For the disabled, finding a place to live often takes years
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Illness Isn’t a Battle
Why the popular SickKids ad betrays children with disabilities
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Campus Confidential
Where’s the line between accommodating disabled students and coddling them?
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Facing Difference
Down syndrome in the age of prenatal testing
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The Greater Goal
freetown—On a dusty pitch, on the edge of one of the poorest countries in the world, a one-legged man is playing soccer. There is skill here. A trapped ball, a …
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