July is Disability Pride Month. It’s a month to celebrate our disabled identity, our disabled community and our disabled culture. Reaching a sense of pride as a disabled person takes work - every damn day. I didn’t always have disability pride. I didn’t even have disability … [Read more...]

I had a friend over today - she said, “yours is the first soap I can use at someone else’s house, it doesn’t hurt my hands”. Access Is Love, as Alice Wong says. Skin conditions - especially the severe ones (like Ichthyosis) can be painful, itchy, allergy prone, annoying … [Read more...]

If you don’t have a skin condition or facial difference, please don’t apologise for your appearance. Don’t apologise for having a red face, or for not wearing makeup, or for your greasy hair or dandruff.No, you don’t look shit (as I hear so many people describe … [Read more...]

Image: a woman with a red face, short dark curly hair tied back, wearing a dress with colourful patterns on it, sitting at a cafe table, smiling. A hot chocolate . is in front of her Some people get confused when I talk about being tired of the stares, comments, questions … [Read more...]