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Race and Disability

These posts highlight the intersections of race and disability identity through authentic narratives and reporting.

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Black Disabled Rage and Denarii’s Grace

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A lit tea light candle in the palm of a person with brown skin and longer oval fingernails.

Violent Ubiquity

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Red, blue, green, pink, teal, orange, purple, grey, and beige ropes of various shades looped around one another and crossing each other in an interconnected half circle.

Tender Pain: Finding Access Intimacy in Kink

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Indoors, day. A young, brown-skinned Black wheelchair user with short, dark hair, a beard, and mustache sits at a desk resting their chin on their hands, their elbows on the desk surface. Wearing a light blue collared shirt, they're staring directly at the camera.

“Capacity” and the Complex Realities of Black Disabled Life

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Outdoors. A small group of people with varying skin tones have their hands in a pile together in unity. Only hands, arms, and torsos are visible. Those with visible torsos are dressed casually.

Many Hands Make the Load Lighter: The Importance of Community Care in Disabled and Immigrant Communities

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A light brown-skinned Black person with long, straight dark hair has a journal of some kind open in front of them as they use a silver pen to write inside of it.

Caregiving, Depression, and Poetry

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A Black person with short dark hair and glasses in a light-colored, short-sleeved shirt seated indoors at a laptop with a look of dismay on their face, hands clasped together covering their mouth.

Fired During Accommodations Application: Reflections from A Black Autistic Worker

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A young, brown-skinned Black woman seated on a bed holds her abdomen in pain.

My Pain is Personal

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A light-skinned Black teenager in a green, striped, short-sleeved shirt is lying down on a bed, facing the camera and smiling. He has a TV remote in his hand and is pointing it at the camera.

I’m a Virgo: Black Autistic Youth Deserve Representation, Too

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Outdoors, day. A prison watchtower separated by a wired fence. The camera is close up on the fence.

Mass Incarceration’s Dystopia Gets Even Worse: Harvesting Organs and Co-Opting Radical Language

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Chronically Ignored: How Western Medical Practices Harm Chronically Ill People

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Navigating The Workforce as a Chronically Ill Person

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Self-Diagnosing: A Response to Inaccessible Healthcare

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Stop Blaming Autism for Capitalist and White Supremacist Violence

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As a Black Disabled Woman, I’m Tired of Seeing Mental Health Issues in My Community Stigmatized

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