Disability and Chronic Illness

The Shadow of the Incident: When Blame Outlives the Act There is a specific kind of cruelty that exists when a perpetrator not only destroys a person’s body but then …

“What is dismissed in a momentcan echo for a lifetime.” There was a time I didn’t fully understand this. I knew violence was wrong.I knew it caused harm.But I did …

There was a time when America believed a slogan could solve a crisis. The Just Say No campaign told people: Just say no to drugs. Simple. Clear. Repeatable. And it failed, failed, …

Many women can remember a moment when their instincts spoke clearly. A feeling in the stomach. A tightening in the chest. A quiet inner voice saying: something is not right. …

updated from November 5, 2022 “You know good and well that a boundary never did a damn thing to you. But a male has every potential to AND be excused …

Across social media and public conversations, there is a pattern many Black women recognize immediately. When a crisis emerges somewhere in the world, voices appear demanding that Black women: organize …

  updated from November 18 2025 If the harm is sex-specific, the language has to be sex-specific.Especially for Black women.Especially in maternal health.   Black women have always understood the …

updated from July 11, 2025 — Especially When We’re Still Doing Most of the Work for Less Pay This piece honors the fact that women perform approximately 76.2% of total …

As a Black woman who has struggled with a health condition that is limiting, and has worked in the professional serving capacity for people with disabilities… I struggled with recent …

“Institutionally, we still don’t understand what inclusion means. Just because you invite someone into a space, but you don’t provide the necessary resources to keep them and everyone else in …