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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...

The De-voiced Black Disabled Activist

" Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin Image of the author in...

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...

#AutisticWhileBlack: Justice For Marcus Abrams

Marcus Abrams after his encounter with police. Image of the face of an African American male with injuries to his face Credit City Pages On ...

#AutisticWhileBlack: What Happened To Kennedi High?

I n the midst of the national media attention on D.C.'s missing African American girls, one young woman. Kennedi High, 16, Autistic and ...

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 ...