A Love Letter to the Person with Disabilities No One Wants to Talk About: Community Building and Loving without Abandon
My dearest disabled relative, I hope you are having a wonderful day. I’m Margaret, an artist, academic and lover. As a queer and multiracial disabled person, I exist in many ambiguous spaces. At times, these grey areas I inhabit make it difficult to show the full range of my experience and feel understood. I’m here…
Autism and Eating Disorders: 3 Common Overlooked Challenges
Written by Sam Sharpe, PhD, FEDUP Collective for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network ⁂ While many autistic people struggle with food and eating, these challenges are often misunderstood, overlooked, or mischaracterized within the world of eating disorder research and treatment. As a peer support worker at FEDUP Collective (an organization that supports transgender, gender diverse,…
ASAN July Update
Dear friend, July is Disability Pride Month, and even in the hardest months, we are proud of how disabled people continue to fight back against attacks on our community. Read on to see what we’ve been working on and how you can get involved. Autistic people need to be included in every part of autism…