Celebrating Diversity in Disability — On this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I’d like to highlight the enormous diversity in the disability community. There is no one way to experience a disability. In the d/Deaf/Hard of Hearing community alone, there are many different, as well as some intersecting, challenges that accompany each kind of…

Hey Hollywood: if you want to tell the stories of Persons with Disabilities, let us tell them ourselves. — As far as I know, there is no decided-upon-term for when an abled actor performs a role of a character with a disability (except, of course, “Academy Award Nominee”). I henceforth dub it “disacting” — and it’s incredibly harmful to the disability community. Disacting is one piece of the larger…