By Noah Berlatsky — 2014
The supercrip narrative, disability rights groups say, mostly serves to make mainstream audiences feel awesome and inspired, while ignoring the actual difficulties faced by and prejudices directed at the vast majority of disabled people.
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Is your greatest enemy, or bully, in life actually yourself? Do you put yourself down, tell yourself, “You can’t do it,” or shut down your own dreams before even giving them a try? On this episode of Women of Impact, empowerment coach, podcast host, writer, and athlete Roxy Saffaie joins Lisa...
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Twenty-four-year-old Alex has spinal muscular atrophy, a condition that causes her severe problems with movement and means she needs a wheelchair.
This brief film introduces Neil Ligon, Lisa Carnes and Molly Welch to Atlanta's Abilities Conference, where challenges to dating, relationships and intimacy within the disabilities community will be explored.
“This guide can help disabled people (and their partners) on their journey toward self-love, better communication, and confidence.
"Society doesn't correlate disability with being attractive... but we can be stylish, gorgeous, stunning, and fabulous."
Harnaam was originally known for being the youngest woman in the world to have a full beard, but is now known as a prominent advocate for mental health, body image and LGBTQIA issues. In her talk, she discusses the importance of embracing beauty, whatever form it may come in.
Extraordinary talk by a therapist and author who is also multiply disabled about not believing any predictions that don’t empower you.
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The desire to love and be loved and feel valued is universal. Seems easy enough, but for most people it is a constant, and often silent, struggle. Toxic emotions such as fear, resentment, guilt, and shame drain your energy, deflate the spirit, and make you feel stuck.
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You are a sovereign being. You are the only governing authority when it comes to your life.
Accepting ourselves requires less work, less achieving and less doing than one might think. The path to greater happiness, greater contentment, and greater self-love is the basis for Catherine A. Wood’s debut book, Belonging: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Joy.