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...]
Accessibility provisions for people with skin conditions
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...]
Stop apologising for your appearance
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...]
When I ask you to see me
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...]
On difficult responses to my face
Once when I was on my way to work I asked for a seat on the train, because I was sore. The man refused, kicking up a fuss. He asked me why I need a seat, I said I was disabled, and I’m off to work. He said because I’m working I must not be disabled, and so didn’t need a seat. No … [Read more...]
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