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Disability Essays, Screeds, and Manifestos by Disabled Writers for Everyone. We are now closed, but this archive of outstanding writing remains for the world to read.
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Kelly J. Baker
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Jul 24, 2020
Happy
A poem about depression in a world on fire.
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Chuck Pearson
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Disability Acts
Jan 23, 2020
What It Took For Me to Stop Running From Depression
I’ve run from this thing my entire adult life…
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Katie Rose Guest Pryal
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Disability Acts
Mar 5, 2019
Dan Mallory and “Bipolar Made Me Do It”
When a famously bad-behaving person uses bipolar disorder as…
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Kelly J. Baker
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Disability Acts
Sep 25, 2018
On Writing and Depression
Depression can take away a writer’s most precious tools: her words, and her…
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Paul Thomas
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Disability Acts
Aug 15, 2018
On Pervasive Anxiety and Travel
My particular fear of flying is a subset of my life-long battle with anxiety.
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Kelly J. Baker
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Aug 24, 2018
The Persistent Hum of Anxiety
My anxiety had taken over my brain, and I didn't want to let it.
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Odochi Ibe
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Disability Acts
Mar 1, 2018
Pretty Hurts: When Accomplishment Downplays Your Mental Illness
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Katie Rose Guest Pryal
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Disability Acts
Apr 9, 2018
Awakening to the Intersection of Disability and Gender Violence
The
Chronicle of Higher Education
’s “The Awakening: Women and Power in the Academy” notably lacked any intersections with disability. We’re…
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