You’ll never know what my daughter can do, or any child with a disability can do, if you don’t provide the space for them to do it. Author’s Note: I realize that children with physical and cognitive disabilities run the gamut of ability and function. It is not my intention to categorize all children with disabilities […]
When I retreated to online feminist spaces — supposedly safe spaces — looking for community, what I found was endless discussions of the ubiquity of street harassment. Within feminist spaces, it’s assumed that #YesAllWomen experience street harassment. The ways in which that harassment manifests — the age it starts, its intensity or form, the consequences of speaking out — may vary depending on […]
Not seeing yourself reflected in media can also lead to low self-esteem. For me, it caused me to question whether my experiences as a disabled woman even mattered. I’ve never been the target audience for a television show, a movie, or a novel. I’m white—but I’m also a woman, queer, and disabled. Growing up with […]
Maybe they were outside their comfort zones. Maybe they were battling chronic shyness. Or maybe they, like me, were grappling with depression or some other mental illness. Sometimes I don’t want to talk. This may seem weird to people who think they know me, as I’m rather prone to long stories and enthusiastically engaging in […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, I’ve always liked the quote “Justice is what love looks like in public,” and I’m trying to […]
The message of the book isn’t—as the author claims—that every person has a right to die with dignity, but that the only logical response to becoming disabled is to choose to kill yourself. Rain Man. Boys Don’t Cry. Philadelphia. To Kill A Mockingbird. Books and movies have the power to change society and how we view […]
It tells me that no matter what I achieve or how well I perform, I’ll always be judged as a disabled marvel, not as a person. I attended one of Mumbai’s best schools between the ages of 3 and 15. It was girls-only, it stressed learning over studying (no homework until fourth grade), and we […]
Trump believes he will never experience an accident, diagnosis, or any indignities related to age. He thinks his money will insulate him from chaos, from these eventualities. One is left to wonder how he will look back on his recent antics and regret them. The title says it all. Donald Trump’s book Crippled America: How […]
