An Unquiet Mind
Disability Status Shouldn’t Have a Hierarchy
While someone’s disability may not be evident to you, it still affects their life—and how they’re treated within and outside the disability community.
Give Disability Feminism the Respect It Deserves
We speak of the radicalization of disabled people, but so few have that experience. So many never even know us.
Britney Spears’s Conservatorship and the Harm of “For Your Own Good”
What’s terrifying about Spears’s situation, for a certain kind of disabled person, is that we are a razor’s edge away from joining her.
Save Me From the Cure Evangelists
It upsets cure evangelists to see evidence of disability, right there in front of them.
We Don’t Want More Beds, We Want Disability Justice
Beds transmute into a form of policing while simultaneously being promoted as an alternative to policing.
Why Is There No Place for Serious Mental Illness in Anti-Stigma Campaigns?
In listings for old pottery that was not intended to be crazed, sellers will disclose what they see as damage: ‘Some crazing.’ Sometimes that’s how I feel. Some crazing.
What My Mental Illness Taught Me About Self-Control
There are entire lines of therapy that basically boil down to “learn self-control so you never upset the sane.”
First You Must Know Something Is Wrong
Everyone’s experience of a diagnosis is different. Here is mine: A key opens a lock I didn’t know existed, sending a door swinging wide.
How Mental Illness Became a Scapegoat for Trump’s White Supremacy
When you attribute someone’s evil actions to their mental health status rather than their actual root cause—like white supremacy—then that evil is no longer presented as a choice.
Disability Sucks Sometimes. Why is it Taboo to Say So?
Disability ruins everything, these stories tell us: disability itself is tragedy. These people’s lives are over, apparently, even though they are palpably still here.