Approximately 700 million women and girls across the globe live with a disability. Disabled women make up three quarters of all people with disabilities in low or middle income countries. While all women no matter their location face multilayered discrimination…
The Neurodivergent Entrepreneur is a podcast for ADHD, Autistic, and all other neurodivergent entrepreneurs who are building businesses, creative work, and lives that actually fit how their brains work. Living and working with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS), along with comorbid…
Note: The only actual names used in this article are of panelists at the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) in Washington, DC in July. Avirmed is a pseudonym. Avirmed, a Deaf man from Mongolia, faced violence in his home…
July is Disability Pride Month, a time when disabled people celebrate disability rights and, as the name suggests, are proud of their identity as a disabled person. I haven’t always been a proud disabled person. For me, “pride” meant ultimately…
Dateability began with a problem familiar to many disabled and chronically ill people: mainstream dating apps may offer access to thousands of profiles, but with those comes discrimination. For Jacqueline, who became disabled due to chronic illness as a teenager,…
Donna Sullivan has spent more than a decade supporting families of medically complex children—and now she’s bringing what many still refuse to believe to the screen. In “Complicated”, Sullivan documents how rare and fluctuating conditions can be dismissed, and how…
This collab story authored by Karina Sturm and Nikolai Prodöhl was originally published at Die Neue Norm and is translated from German. Two Pregnancies, Two Decisions “If the ultrasound shows anything abnormal, would you terminate the pregnancy,” asks the gynecologist?…