Essays

Accessing abortion care as a disabled individual

Mental health blogger and journalist Katie Alexander discusses abortion care in the UK CW: discussion of abortion, the impact of abortion...

Years of Chronic Anxiety Made Self-Love Impossible For Me... Until Now.

Mental health awareness has gradually become destigmatized, but for Mahevash Shaikh, the destigmatisation came too late. CW: generalised...

Discovering Dyscalculia in my Mid-20s

Sarah Nabi talks us through her lived experience of discovering she had dyscalculia in her mid-20s and how it solved a lot of the questions

The reality of trying to get your book published as a disabled author.

Writer, Rosemary Richings, talks about her lived experience in getting her book published, the difficulties, frustrations, and eventual...

4 Ways to Respond to Diet Culture.

We, in the disabled community, recognise that all bodies come in different shapes, sizes and ways of functioning. However, diet culture...

The Forgotten Casualties: The Disabled Voices That Still Remain to Be Heard Throughout the COVID-19

Writer, Phoebe Jenkins, explores what it's like to be one of the forgotten in the past two pandemic years. Struggling to get support and...

A battle-cry for the “only”: Covid-19 messaging has changed the way I view the world.

Melissa Parker has written a personal, introspective article on how social media and Covid-19 messaging have changed the way disabled...

Looking to the Past for the Future of Disability.

Disability historian, Daisy Holder, explains how the lack of education about disability history contributes to our current treatment....

Actually, Let the Grass Grow Under My Feet.

Eva Charalambides explores the relationship of chronic illness with time and the reason why we should all see the beauty in slowing down....