personal essay

disability

personal essay

first person

Getting Proud and Staying Proud: Navigating Pride as a Disabled Person

“I like being disabled because I like being myself (which is radical enough for any woman to say). Pride, though, requires an even bigger risk.”

Carrie —

Jun 27, 2016

disability

fullscreen

love + sex

So You Want to Fuck an Able-Bodied Person

For the disabled among us, meet-cutes and the events that follow aren’t so simple to orchestrate. Need a refresher on the rules of engagement? There’s no need to go it…

Carrie —

Jun 17, 2016

gun violence

hate crime

first person

Not Quite There Yet: Safety and Progress In Light of the Pulse Shooting

“The morning after the horrific shooting, and the days that followed, I understood part of my father’s fear. Animosity towards LGBTQ people has not gone the way of black and…

Angelica Liz —

Jun 15, 2016

beyonce

family

first person

A Road Trip With Your Father In Honor of His 74th Birthday, In Playlist Form

A road trip which happens to coincide with the occasion of Prince’s death and the release of “Lemonade.”

Aisha —

Jun 9, 2016

disability

personal essay

first person

The Unresolved Body in a State of Conflict

Often, when I’m having sex, a very specific thought runs through my head on a loop: “don’t touch me.” What gives? If I get so much out of being close…

Carrie —

May 30, 2016

family

mama outsider

first person

Mama Outsider: When Your Mother Thanks You for Keeping Your Baby

“Instead, I jump back into the mind of the girlish woman I was at 28, the one who didn’t know enough about the consequences for unacceptable motherhood to plunge headfirst…

Asha —

May 26, 2016

fullscreen

personal essay

first person

Sometime In June

“Keeping abreast of the passersby, the evidence of our intimacy was in the way we carried our hands. They were strategically placed so when they touched, it could be disguised…

Devan Diaz —

May 25, 2016

family

parenthood

parenting & family

Five Images Of My Family

“I’m going to be a single, poor, gay, mom, and it’s going to be fine. It’s going to be amazing. I mean sure, I might date sometimes, but I don’t…

Katherine DM Clover —

May 24, 2016

disability

Lists/Top 10s

first person

“You’re Carrie, Y’Know?”: 7 Ways My Nondisabled Friends Get it Right

Because the world sure as hell isn’t telling me my body matters. And having nondisabled friends who do, who affirm me precisely for standing out, means I don’t have to…

Carrie —

May 17, 2016

family

mama outsider

first person

Mama Outsider: Learning Black Zen in a White House

“Why some people mean? One income that isn’t a livable wage plus racism will do that to you, and you can’t imagine the rage until you’ve lived it.”

Asha —

May 12, 2016

documentaries

personal essay

gender

Stigma and Sisterhood: Life for Trans Women Since 1994’s “I Don’t Wanna Be a Boy”

“It took watching I Don’t Wanna Be A Boy to show me that the negative attitudes towards trans women have always been pervasive in society, that from 1994 to 2016…

Princess Harmony —

May 9, 2016

disability

personal essay

first person

Tattoos and Disability: Surviving An Experience Not Everyone Can Handle

“I made a choice about how I would look, and didn’t realize until I’d done it how unprecedented that was.”

Carrie —

May 2, 2016