To all of my NMD gimpy friends, an individual instance of a systemic problem must get our attention. I don't think anyone can genuinely argue that there are not legitimate questions surrounding Jerika's circumstances. Perhaps the questions have good answers, as some of you claim. Perhaps they do not. The reality is we will never know. But it seems to me that a bigger cause for the divide is whether the questions should be asked in the first place. To that I feel incredibly st

Jerika Bolen's death was not beautiful. It was a tragedy. No 14-year-old should be allowed to make a decision about life and death. NO TEENAGER, no matter what. It's ridiculous. It highlights how people in our society view people with disabilities: people with lives not worth living, people to be pitied. If she had been an able-bodied person in the same amount of pain, would people have encouraged her to die in the same way? I don't think so. It's sickening. People who use wh

I've been having a lot of issues with my workplace restroom as of late. It seems as if the one accessible woman's restroom stall in the building is the most popular stall in town. Never do I actually encounter a person using the stall who actually needs it. It's always the ultra-marathon, cross-fitter who decides to literally camp out in the stall for hours while I wait in frustration. Today, after a 30 or so minute wait for a woman who was taking the shit of her life, I had