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#DisabledWhileBlack; Missed Opportunity, #SerenaWilliams, Adaptive Wear, And Intersectionality

Image of a female form clothed entirely in black  with a Black mask resembling a Black Panther, she is leaning back against a tree with one ...

#AutisticWhileBlack: At the Intersection of Ablesim and Racism

 "Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintention...

#AutisticWhileBlack The Sacrifice of Andre and Cheryl McCollins

One of the most influential images of all time is the photograph of the beaten and mutilated body of Emmett Till, a teenager from Chicago vi...

When Help Harms: Surviving Special Education

The author, surveying the forest and deciding navigation while pondering how to provoke a shift in attitudes towards disabled students on pa...

Why I Think That Maybe Stafford County Virginia Should Keep Its Confederate Flag

Childhood photo of Neli Latson, a young autistic African American male in crew cut 'fro, white tshirt and red, white, and blue plaid shi...

Birthday Letter: Parenting Autism In The Age of Trump

I wrote this for my son on his birthday last December. It was painful and personal, and I withheld it for this many months without publishin...

Against the Erasure of LaVonnya Gardner

Image of LaVonnya Gardner's AAC board with the written  and PEC symbol sentence "I use AAC everyday and I Love it" written on ...

Justice for the Dietrich, Idaho Assault Victim, Neurodivergent and Black

Mr. and Mrs. McDaniel with four of their 20 adopted children ©Washington Post/Getty Images I'm going to mention a violent rape. I will t...