“There is power in both being in a place and knowing you yourself are that place, in being saved and saving yourself.”Tagged: Body, Self love
“Nondisabled people often treat us like children who are just learning the basics. We are spoken to slowly in schools, gawked and laughed at in public, and stripped of our rights and autonomy in Congress.”Tagged: Ryan O'Connell, Special, Disability, Netflix
“I love that I was able to give people a place to be the version of themselves they had always hoped they could be.”Tagged: Disability, Self-Love, Self-Worth
“There’s so much ableism in the idea that the only activism that counts is “in the streets” activism. Get off your high horses. My words are activism, there’s real work behind them too. Just because I use words to fight doesn’t mean I’m not really fighting. Open up your minds.”Tagged: Activism, being an activist, Activist
“One of the most valuable things I learned as a writer is to be open to make changes to your work. I can tell you that every single editor I have had has made my essays or articles better. They’ve brought things out in me that I didn’t know were there.”Tagged: Writing, Writing Advice, writing experience, Editors, writing editors
“I think one of the kindest things you can do is tell the people who have impacted you in any positive way that they have.”Tagged: Gratitude, kindness, showing gratitude, being thankful
“As a disabled black woman my hill to die on is proper media representation. So, when we aren’t given the respect we deserve & our stories deserve. When The person telling the story isn’t familiar with that experience, there are going to be real life people you hurt in the process And also, as a…”Tagged: Disabled People, media representation, media representation of disabled people, Films, TV Shows
“Personally, I feel like if you come at someone publicly, you can apologize publicly too.”Tagged: Apologizing, Apology, public apology, Humility
“The argument against plastic bags and straws is fine, I get it. But in these arguments, disabled people are being erased, ignored, or talked over. Many of us need plastic straws because the alternatives don’t work. As for plastic bags, they’re easier for my right hand to grip. I know the problems…”Tagged: Plastic, Plastic ban, straw ban, Disabled People, Disability
“The thing about hiring non-trans actors to play trans people & non-disabled people to play disabled people is this: Being trans & being disabled aren’t costumes to just take on and off for award seasons. We don’t deserve the insinuation that our lives are a performance & not real.”Tagged: Transgender, non-disabled people, Representation, media representation
“It really is a blow to the self esteem when most people say they’d never date you because you’re disabled. I spent years hating myself for this very reason. I love myself now but I get lonely and sad when I think about how many people in the world think I’m not dating material.”Tagged: Disabled People, Disability, physically disabled, Physical suffering, Being Normal
“I am not a disability writer. I’m a writer, period. I write about disability sure, but also, pop culture and music and grief and joy and whatever I feel like.”Tagged: writer, writer's words, writer's experience, a writer writes, Writing