This blog includes a trigger warning as it discusses sexual assault and rape. I want to address a topic rarely talked about: over 80 percent of women with disabilities have experienced sexual assault, with 50 percent of them enduring more than ten assaults. I am one of them. Because of societal norms that devalue and dehumanize people with disabilities, we are significantly at greater risk of SA. I feel like this isn’t spoken about on a large scale mainly because people with disabilities are...

I’ve never had a positive school experience, and sadly this is actually very common for Disabled children and teens - in fact, Disabled children are two to three times more likely to be bullied or experience discrimination than their able-bodied peers. So you could imagine the bullying was pretty consistent throughout my schooling years - not only from other kids but from teachers too. It probably didn’t help that I lived in an isolated small town with a population of only 37,000 - with maybe...

Grief has followed me throughout my life. I actually remember the exact moment when I first felt that feeling of loss, something I didn’t understand to begin with. The deep ache that sat in the pit of my stomach, the same feeling as if I were to be punched continuously until the pain was radiating to every part of me. The constant confusion about why my body wasn’t operating like it did the week prior. It had me in a serious chokehold of emotions at such a young age. I was 10 years old when I...