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How Polyamory Pushed Me to Prioritize My Pelvic Health

Communicating openly about sex and pelvic health with my partners helps me advocate for myself in medical settings.

Samantha Puc —

Apr 3, 2023

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A Black woman with short, curly hair wears a navy blue tank top with white stripes and stands against a yellow background. She holds one hand in the other and grimaces, suggesting that she has chronic pain in her fingers.

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How to Finger Your Partner When You Have Chronic Pain in Your Hands

A few minor adjustments can make fingering easier, even when chronic pain is cramping your style.

Ro White —

Mar 23, 2023

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Against a red background, there is a stack of white KN95 masks, a COVID vaccine card, a rapid covid test, red leather cuffs, a red leather blindfold, two black butt plugs, and a black ball gag.

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How I’m Navigating Play Parties as a Disabled, Immunocompromised Kinkster

I knew they taught about safety in BDSM culture, and I assumed that this ethic would carry through in their COVID safety. I was wrong.

Jade T. Perry —

Jan 18, 2023

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10 Ways to Keep Your Disabled / Chronically Ill Friends Safer This Pride

We clown on the commodification of Pride, but what good is that if we continue to perpetuate all the ableism intrinsic in capitalism in our own spaces?

Heather Hogan —

Jun 2, 2022

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You Need Help: I’m Disabled — Will I Ever Find Love?

Disabled and chronically ill people are powerful and sexy and worthy of love, and that means you’re all of those things, too.

Ro White —

May 17, 2022

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disability

A Black person wearing a yellow top and jeans lifts up their shirt to reveal a Continuous Glucose Monitor in their abdomen. They hold up their phone, which shows a glucose monitoring app.

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So You Wanna Have Sex With Me And My 3 Medical Devices?

Being self-conscious was my entire personality back then, wondering who around me might find me unattractive and why. The port under my skin felt like an obvious answer.

cam montgomery —

Sep 6, 2021

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The Angsty Buddhist: Chronic Pain & Trying Not To Be A White Yoga Lady

I’ve been told I should try to reclaim my ancestral healing practices, and this is something I would like to do. When I try to learn about Chinese things, it…

L —

Nov 12, 2020

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The None-est of All: My Journey as a Reluctant, Disabled Athlete

Watching them sweat from my spa on the sidelines, I’d thank my body. On the one hand, so humiliating; on the other, its own defense mechanism against the wretchedness of…

Rax King —

Aug 5, 2019

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Bearing Life With and Alongside: On Masculinity, Pregnancy, and Medical Trauma

I hadn’t experienced transphobic violence in medicalized form before. But I’d experienced it in many others: in punches and pushes, through threats with weapons, or by being run off the…

Grover Wehman-Brown —

Nov 19, 2018