Resources Created by a Disabled Writer & Artist

Posted on by Kella Hanna-Wayne
A graphic in the colors of disability pride (muted green, blue, white, yellow, and red on a dark grey background) that says July is Disability Pride Month, with a series of hands reaching up as if to declare their presence.

I have been writing about disability, chronic illness, and mental health for seven years now, and in 2020, I started creating digital art based on the same themes. Add to that the many articles by guests that I’ve published by chronically ill writers and you get a BIG backlog of resources created and curated by a disabled writer and artist. 

It’s July, which is disability pride month, and as such I wanted to share with you a compilation of the resources and work I’ve spent the last seven years assembling. If you’d like to learn more about the experience of disability and chronic illness, or you’d like a list of resources to point family and friends to, this is the list for you. 

My Resources on Disability, Chronic Illness, and Mental Health

First, let me share with you some of the resources I’ve created over the years. 

Articles on Disability

Articles on Chronic Illness

Articles on Mental Health

Podcasts, Interviews, and Videos

Resources Created by Guests

In addition to my own work, many other activists and writers have contributed their work to this blog’s collection of resources on disability, chronic illness, mental health, and neurodivergence. 

Disability & Chronic Illness

Mental Health & Neurodivergence

My Disability & Chronic Illness Themed Art

As I started to design my own social justice digital art pieces to put on merch, it was only natural that these designs would follow the same theme of disability and chronic illness as the rest of my work. 

 To celebrate Disability Pride Month, I’ve put my disability and chronic illness themed products on sale for 10% off! 

An orange pillow with a painting of a pair of long-haired cats cuddling on a colorful rug, one ginger and white, the other dark brown and white. Their noses are hearts and the spots on their chest make the shape of a heart. It sits on a bowl chair.

Emotional Support Cats Pillow

$18.89  $20.99

On a light turquoise tote bag, a cartoonish black font says This is the prime of my life. I am young, hot and full of moderate to severe joint pain. Next to the text is a cartoon sunflower. The medium bag is 16 by 15 inches and has a black strap. The bag is laid on a wooden floor next to a brown tabby cat and a set of keys.

Sunflower Joint Pain Tote Bag

$24.29  $26.99

A plush throw blanket folded up with a repeat pattern of vertical cartoon spoons with tiny hearts on the handles in the colors of the disability pride flag: red, blue, green, yellow, white, on a dark grey background. The back of the blanket is white.

Spoonie Disability Pride
Throw Blanket

$26.97  $29.97

A man in a light blue T-shirt with a cartoon of a brown service dog with floppy ears and a big smile, wearing a red and pink harness on its back. Above in blocky blue letters it says Service Doggos Are The Best Doggos. He smiles at his dog.

Service Doggos Are the Best Doggos T-Shirt

$22.49  $24.99

A colorful drawing of a peach and red orchid on a green stem arching over decorative text saying Needing extra care doesnt make you a burden. The words are framed by green vines. Everything is on a periwinkle colored 15 oz mug on a wooden desk.

Needing Extra Care
15oz Mug

$19.43  $21.59

A cartoon of a smiling blue star at the end of a rainbow. Below in all caps black letters it says Yes Thank you I have tried yoga please suggest literally anything else. It is demoed on a light blue pullover hoodie on a sassy east asian woman.

Yes Thank You I Have Tried Yoga Pullover Hoodie

$39.59  $43.99

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Stickers are excluded from this sale HOWEVER you can get 25% off when you buy TWO or more stickers with the code 2STICKERS, and you can get 30% off when you buy FOUR or more stickers with the code 4STICKERS. 

A spiral notebook with four of Yopp's original disability and chronic illness themed stickers: A black sticker with a cartoon drawing of a service dog and blue text that says Service Doggos are the Best Doggos. A white sticker with a cartoon rainbow with a smiling blue star at the end and black text that says Yes, thank you I have tried yoga please suggest literally anything else. A turquoise sticker with a cartoon sunflower with black text that says This is the prime of my life. I'm young, hot, and full of moderate to severe joint pain. And a periwinkle sticker with an illustration of a pink and red orchid arching over black text that says Needing extra care doesn't make you a burden.

See all Disability Stickers

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