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Aug 13, 2020

COSMOPOLITAN

I’m Moving My Family to Canada to Save My Black Son From America “George Floyd’s murder was ultimately a reckoning. It was a recognition...

Aug 7, 2020

DISABILITY VISIBILITY

I contributed an essay to Alice Wong's disability anthology.

Aug 6, 2020

GLAMOUR

A Black mom and a white mom discuss raising Black children in the South fear has shaped my experience as a mother We met in North...

Apr 9, 2020

THE WASHINGTON POST

MY DISABILITY DOESN'T SHORTEN MY LIFE EXPECTANCY. MEDICAL RATIONING MIGHT Most of my symptoms are invisible. If hospitalized, I'd keep it...

Mar 16, 2020

HUFFPOST

Our Federal Government Has Failed To Protect Us, And We Have Every Right To Feel Traumatized Coronavirus and the chaotic response to it...

Feb 12, 2020

GLAMOUR

What Are You Doing Right Now? I’m in Chronic Pain One day I was a runner and business owner, and the next I couldn’t get out of bed. My...

Dec 6, 2019

THE NEW YORK TIMES

My Power Wheelchair Makes Me a Better Mom Because I can walk short distances, strangers judge me for using a wheelchair. But it allows me...

Oct 1, 2019

LONGREADS

On Representations of Disability: A Reading List I was featured in Jacqueline Alnes' piece on disability writing. Representations of...

Sep 4, 2019

THE WASHINGTON POST

Parenting with a disability makes me feel like an ‘impostor’ as a mother While my son acts out every emotion with his body, my physical...

Jul 24, 2019

HUFFINGTON POST

I Love ‘Queer Eye.’ I Don’t Love The Way It Portrayed People With Disabilities. The show’s “Disabled But Not Really” episode missed an...

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