This year, International Women’s Day dawns on March 8th, a celebration of the struggles and victories that women worldwide have faced throughout the centuries. Throughout this March, I would encourage you to remember the diversity of the many women of all ages, colors, and sizes who are each on their own unique journey to battle chronic illnesses — often facing additional challenges in comparison to men.

As more people use the word "retard" as a synonym for stupid or dumb, it furthers the negative stereotypes about people with disabilities. When used in this way it is equivalent to saying all people with disabilities are stupid.

Tricia Johnson is a poet wishing to share her work with others, by using the written word to embrace one another’s humanity. Her debut poetry collection, Whirl Away Girl, will be published on March 10th, 2021 by Atmosphere Press.

Brief prose on autism & smiles

Jennifer Rollin is an eating disorder therapist and founder of The Eating Disorder Center. She has been interviewed speaking about eating disorders on ABC, NBC, and PBS. She has been named as one of the top eating disorder experts in the country.

Inspired by her health battle with Lyme Disease, Elizabeth founded Riley App, a health tech platform that connects patients to community and resources to get to healing faster. Elizabeth’s life mission is to #ChangeTheStigma around life with a health condition/ disability and is proud to pave the way to change how patients/ the disability community is seen across the world.

Thoughts on “I’m okay”

Self-preservation has never come naturally to me.

By disability blog “The Handy, Uncapped Pen”