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Three Lessons from Disabled Mothers

By Sonja Sharp — 2021

If there’s one thing I wish nondisabled parents could learn from parents like me, it’s that their anxiety would be better spent elsewhere.

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What I should have done when my 12-year-old told me he was transgender

Now, five years later, this is blindingly obvious to me – and my son has become the happiest I’ve seen him since he was a child.

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Carolyn Tate
2022
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Aaron Rose Philip on Manifesting the Future of Black Creativity

The model, artist and photographer made history when she walked the Moschino runway in her chair this season. She’s also the first creative we’re spotlighting from the BTF100, debuting today.

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Ashley Tyner
2021
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Models Chella Man and Aaron Philip Demand Better Representation for Disabled Communities

Models and best friends Chella Man and Aaron Philip are challenging fashion ideals. The two discuss growing up feeling excluded and invisible and detail the bravery it takes to be the change you want to see.

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Tish Weinstock
2020
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How Lorenza Bottner’s Prescient Art Created Space for Disabled and Trans People

At Documenta 14, the 2017 edition of the touted art festival that takes place once every five years in Kassel, it was an artist heretofore unknown to much of the art world who stole the show: Lorenza Böttner, a German painter, dancer, and performance artist who, in the ’80s and ’90s, began...

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Alex Greenberger
2021
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Is It Self-Care, or Is It Capitalism?

So many of the little rituals I have each day—like my makeup or skincare routine—do help soothe and/or rejuvenate me. For me, any type of solo practiced routine is good. But I’ve learned that self-care does not, and cannot, sustain me. And I believe that this may be the case for many of you.

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Ijeoma Oluo
2021
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Why My Kids Don’t Call Me ‘Mom’

They call me Bapa.

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Ethan Somerman
2019
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On Trans Motherhood, and My Reality of Never Having Biological Children

“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”

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Mey Rude
2018
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