Remember my interview about sex and disability last month on the podcast Into Your Body? I did another interview on the same topic! CN: brief discussion of sexuality, sexism influenced medical neglect, reproductive disorders, and disability. Story time: Before that podcast was recorded, Vi La Bianca, a previous guest blogger for Yopp, invited me to come onto her youtube show Secular Sexuality to discuss sex and disability. To be honest, I felt nervous about interviewing …Read More
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Podcast Interview on Sex and Disability
A few weeks ago I got together with my friend DJ and we had a conversation about sex & disability for his podcast Into Your Body. Dj’s podcast explores some progressive takes on sexuality and your relationship with your body, particularly exploring how these topics intersect with particular marginalizations.
I Don’t Have Interstitial Cystitis
As if I didn’t have enough health conditions already, this article is the story of how I thought I had interstitial cystitis… and then found out that I didn’t.
Why Chronic Illness Makes It So Hard to Leave Home
My chronically ill friends and I joke about the medicine cabinet worth of supplies we take with us on any trip that’s longer than an hour because we never know what we’re going to need. But why is such intensive preparation required for a simple outing? Why does chronic illness make it so hard to leave home, even for a few hours?
A Day in the Life of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
While scrolling through twitter, I found a fellow EDS disability advocate had created a thread detailing what it was like to live a day in the life of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. I was inspired to write my own account, to make visible all the tiny little adjustments I make all day long to live with this condition.
Guest Post on ‘Splain You a Thing: Why It’s Hard to Reveal My Disability to Strangers
To make sure you all continue to have something to read during my writing hiatus, I’m happy to present to you a guest post I wrote for the social justice blog, ‘Splain You A Thing.
Yopp’s 6 Most Shared Articles
To celebrate the first birthday of Yopp, the social justice blog, I collated the 6 articles that received the most shares in Yopp’s first year on the internet.
What Ableism Feels Like
I became disabled late in life, at which point I had to completely restructure my mental understanding of what to expect of my body. I was also introduced to the world of ableism. Ableism had been happening all around me but it wasn’t until I was disabled that I had any idea what ableism feels like.
10 Things I Love About Being Disabled
Disability is often discussed in terms of tragedy and hardship. It’s not very often that you hear someone talk about the things they love about being disabled. But maybe we should.
New Clothes: Disability Accommodation & Body Acceptance
This article captures a moment in time when I was going to start receiving financial support, which granted me the freedom to focus on ways I could implement disability accommodation into my life, instead of always fighting back.