disability

disability

you need help

health

You Need Help: Your Therapist Is Clueless About Disability

Yes, helpful therapists exist! Yes, they are worth it! And yes, they are very hard to find! Stay with me.

Carrie —

Oct 24, 2017

disability

personal essay

first person

Why I’m Going To Run for Office

“I’m done putting my faith in well-meaning surrogates. That’s not enough now, and it never really was.”

Carrie —

Sep 13, 2017

disability

Miniseries

relationships

Queer Crip Love Fest: Love Is Showing Up

For the final installment of Queer Crip Love Fest, we turn the cute up to 11.

Carrie —

Jul 20, 2017

disability

family

love + sex

Queer Crip Love Fest: Nana’s Stories and Ginger Loaf

“I think for many of us as disabled folk, we’ve come to terms with what we experience — but Nana’s experience of dementia is sort of different in that she…

Carrie —

Jul 6, 2017

disability

queering disability

coming out

You Need Help: How to Navigate Disabled Kids Coming Out

“That she talked to you about this at all is a beautiful and important thing that a lot of young people don’t have. So know that just being there for…

Lindsay —

Jul 5, 2017

disability

Miniseries

book features

Queer Crip Love Fest: In Control of My Own Narrative

“It’s interesting and refreshing to be in this time period where authors are resisting in their own way.”

Carrie —

Jun 22, 2017

disability

donald trump is not my president

politics + activism

“I’m Not Done Living My Damn Life Yet”: Disabled Queer People Speak Out on the American Health Care Act

“It’s a harsh reality that I will be priced out of my own life at this point if the AHCA gets passed and, quite frankly, I’m not done living my…

Carrie —

Jun 12, 2017

disability

interview

relationships

Queer Crip Love Fest: More Seen Than I’ve Ever Felt

An A-Camp love story to help ease your comedown!

Carrie —

May 25, 2017

disability

Miniseries

relationships

Queer Crip Love Fest: We Make it Radical

“I try and proudly practice calling my body home, to truly inhabit my body, to feel what it feels like to live inside these muscles that bend and curl, and…

Carrie —

May 11, 2017

disability

queering disability

travel

7 Queer Disabled Folks On Why Air Travel Is Kind of a Nightmare

“The ADA tends to disintegrate in the hands of airlines and their staff, especially for POC and QTPOC, and it doesn’t matter if the law is on your side.”

Carrie —

May 1, 2017

disability

mental health

identity

Queer Crip Love Fest: Insider/Outsider

“I feel affinity for parts of Asian communities, neuerodivergent communities, queer communities and kink communities. I don’t really feel completely invested in one place. It’s always been like that.”

Carrie —

Apr 27, 2017

bisexuality

disability

parenting & family

Queer Crip Love Fest: Parenting at the Intersections

“Before becoming a parent, I looked at parenting through rose-colored glasses — with an able-bodied person’s perspective. It was drilled into my head by other people, well-meaning as they were,…

Carrie —

Apr 13, 2017