Disability Thinking Weekday - May 2024 Recap
Here’s a look back at May’s Disability Thinking Weekday links. The links are sorted into three broad topic categories — Disability Life & Culture, Politics, Policy & Activism, and Practical Information, plus Videos.
Disability Life & Culture
- Disability: Doctor assumed woman using wheelchair did not have sex
- Tony-Award Winner Ali Stroker on How She Lives Boldly
- Glasgow theatre company wants more disabled actors cast in disabled roles
- Alice Wong’s 'Disability Intimacy' Is a Deep Dive into Relationships and Community
- Study Reveals Unexpected Literacy in Autistic People Who Cannot Speak
- After my stroke, I didn’t know how to identify as someone with a disability
- A Message from Theo Braddy: Your Words Hurt Me
- Review: 'And They Lived…Ever After' Rewrites Fairy Tales Through A Disability Lens
- Adaptive fashion: Catholic Memorial alum creates formal wear for people with physical disabilities
- John McFall: Para-astronaut on a mission to open up space
- School Sex Ed Left Me Feeling Isolated. That’s a Safety Issue.
- Virginia Democrat uses voice assist to give House floor speech: ‘An inspiration’
- I’m non verbal, but that won’t stop me from speaking Māori
- Her speech using a voice app made history in Congress — and sparked a larger disability conversation
- The monsters that made me: Growing up disabled, all of my heroes were villains
- The Hardest Thing to Carry: On Disability and Grief
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication: How Becoming a User Changed My Relationships
- ADHD diagnoses are rising. 1 in 9 U.S. kids have gotten one, new study finds
- How anxiety became a catchall for every unpleasant emotion
- ‘Despite appearances, I finally realise I am not able-bodied’: novelist Daisy Lafarge on her hypermobility disorder
- What I've Learned From Traveling With Chronic Pain
- ‘I’m fighting for the right to live’: Liz Carr on acting, friendship and her campaign against assisted dying