I’m going to feel like a bitchy curmudgeon at some point during the course of this post, but I want to draw your attention to something very important: a dangerous precedent is being set by society when we don’t look past certain media representations of disability – and it creates an invisibility that effects the way people live their lives and raise… Read more →
I spent the summer in Seattle, helping care for a dear friend and family member with brain cancer. At the beginning, we didn’t know what would happen. We had no idea if she would live, if she would be the same person after her radiation and chemotherapy. We just didn’t know. But what I observed, and what I thought about… Read more →
I don’t have children. Maybe I will someday. Or maybe I won’t. That’s not the point of this article. Have you ever been in a class discussion about motherhood, and suddenly a classmate directly questions not only your capability to be a parent, but the physiological possibility of bearing a child? I have. Has your ability to be a parent… Read more →
