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A labyrinth of accusation, hysterical rumor, a landscape in which hearsay, heresy, gossip have so slowly and thoroughly replaced the careful assessment of evidence. Justice seems to have been dealt by Satan. We know the weird sisters, travel in packs of eight, ten. Although they pare down in size and expand ranging from ten or twenty, to two or four, life continues making plans as the circle of life continues and the girls become women. By looking at their flight pattern, we

I take medication for Epilepsy. It should be a simple process. I have an account with Walgreens that has all my medication listed so that I can just refill my prescription on the app, and then pick it up. Simple, right? Not in my world. I automatically refilled my prescription for Keppra XR on March 11th. I was supposed to pick up the prescription on the 13th. I called to check on my prescription, of course it’s out of stock. I finally got it on the 16th. Was I lucky! They or

Keah Brown is an author and journalist who started #DisabledandCute, a term that went viral in 2017. Brown was born with Spastic Hemiplegic Cerebral Palsy, which limits her control over the right side of her body.  Brown published her first memoir “The Pretty One” in 2019. Her second book, “Sam’s Super Sheets” was published in 2022.  Geri Jewell is the first comic with a disability  on a prime time TV series called The Facts of Life.  Ms. Jewell has Cerebral Palsy.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was told she’d Never become a Lawyer. Nobody hired women.  She was the second woman on the Supreme Court. She served as Justice from 1993-2020.  Justice Ginsburg was once asked: “How many women would be enough on the Supreme Court?” Without missing a beat, she replied: “Nine.” There’s a teacher named Jane Elliot. In 1968, the day after Dr. Martin Luther King’s death, her third grade students asked: “Why would anybody want to kill a king?” In order

Justin Gallegos  The first runner with Cerebral Palsy to sign a Nike endorsement. He received the contract while still in college in 2018. As a way to increase visibility for the condition, Gallegos signed the contract on World Cerebral Palsy Day, October 6th.  Nicolas Hamilton  Is a race car driver in England. He was born eight weeks pre-mature with type of Cerebral Palsy that affects the lower half of the body, also known as Spastic Diplegia.

I highly recommend this- it's a great read. https://gracedowwrites.com/2026/03/02/a-day-to-remember-and-protect-disabled-lives/

The Framed Women of Ardmore House By Brandy Shillace Features an autistic and hyperlexic protagonist  Dead Body Language  By Penny Warner Features a Deaf Protagonist  Set in a community of Characters who use ASL The Mystery of Curiosities By CS Poe ( A Disability focused mystery, often featuring Diverse, Queer characters)  Chalice By Robin McKinley Fantasy Cozy Crossover Featuring a love interest with Chronic Pain and Disabilities  The Thursday Murder Club By Richard Osgood F

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Children of a Lesser God By Mark Medoff Cost of Living Pulitzer Prize for 2018 By Martyna Majok Tribes By Nina Raine Centers on A Deaf Young Man in a Hearing Family  Wait until Dark  By Frederick Knott The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime  Simon Stephens based on the novel of the same name by Mark Haddon. Next to Normal By  Kitt/Yorkey A Nervous Smile By John Belluso (Examines the lives of parents caring for a severely disabled child)

The way it manifests itself is that I have a fist for a right hand, and I wear a brace on my right leg, because my balance isn’t great.  As a writer, a YA novelist, can anyone imagine writing a novel with five fingers across an entire keyboard? I wish I had the dexterity for that. I don’t. So, I’m working with someone who types it out for me, we go over the chapters together.  As I write this post, I’m writing it in my email.  That’s not nearly as complicated.  I keep thinkin

Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute By Talia Hibbert The Matzah Ball By Jean Meltzer Magical Meet Cute By Jane Meltzer My Perfect Match By Jean Meltzer Kissing Kosher  By Jean Meltzer Mr. Perfect on Paper  By Jean Meltzer Phantom Waltz By Catherine Anderson  Blue Skies By Catherine Anderson  Bright Eyes By Catherine Anderson  My Sunshine By Catherine Anderson  Sunkissed  By Catherine Anderson

Crip Camp (Won Peabody Award for Best Documentary in 2020)  In the 1970’s, at Camp Jened, in the Catskills,  there was a Utopia, where campers experienced Romance, Independence, Freedom, away from the stigma of the Outside World. Documentary emphasizes Campers to realize their own worth and power, leading to a revolution in Civil Rights.  CODA (2021) Children of Deaf Parents: Daughter Ruby is the only hearing member of a Deaf parents from Gloucester, Massachusetts. At 17, sh

Don’t Worry, he won’t get far on Foot by John Callahan Time to Roll By Jamie Sumner Too Big To Miss By Sue Ann Jaffarian The War I Finally Won By Kimberly Brubaker Bradley Deaf Utopia By Nyle Di Marco Sipping Dom Perignon  Through A Straw By Eddie Ndopu Sunrise Nights By Jeff Zentner and  Brittany Cavallaro The Heart is a Lonely Hunter By Carson McCullers

The Silence Between Us  Alison Gervais The Last Words we said Leah Schier Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert

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I’m sure you’re wondering why I haven’t “travelled” the Internet to find someone. Anyone out there tried EHARMONY? JDATE? Let me tell you, there are more boys masquerading as men than I ever thought! Sorry, guys, obviously I don’t mean all of you. But, can we be serious for a minute? I’m 1% of the population, the disabled population that is. At least according to a counsellor of mine, from years back. Just disabled enough to fall through the cracks in an “already broken down

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You are now entering the Disabled Dating Zone. If you accept this mission, your message will self-destruct in ten seconds. Before the internet dating sites were fruitful and multiplied, I signed up for a matchmaking group for the disabled called Chaverim. No sooner had I turned in my paperwork, than I found out that I had already been matched by the director. “Erika, would you please come into my office and close the door?” Hmm… this sounds suspicious. Feeling like a student

As I write this, I didn’t know what to put in the Subject line. Does that have to do with my Epilepsy? Maybe.  Or maybe, it’s because I don’t want to talk about the fact that Valentine’s Day and Epilepsy share the same Saint? How romantic is that? Historically, Epilepsy is known as the “falling sickness” and in German, there’s a phonetic similarity between Valentine and Fallen.  There are  other legends that a third Century Bishop named Valentine von Terni freed the son of a