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Seeking Intimacy

By Lorna Collier — 2017

People with physical disabilities fight hurtful stereotypes when looking for relationship partners

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The Body Neutrality Movement as an Alternative to Body Positivity?

Body neutrality, I think, has the power to be really useful in particular to people with disabilities, especially those with chronic pain or people with progressive diagnoses.

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How the Body Positivity Movement Left Us Disabled Women Behind

“Body positivity is all about having a good relationship with your body.” Well that’s what everyone keeps telling me. The only problem is, if I told anyone about the way my body treats me, they would tell me it’s a relationship I need to get the hell out of.

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My Medicaid, My Life

The reality of being a disabled person on Medicaid is far more complex and nuanced. Many people do not even know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare and simply consider them “entitlement programs,” as if tax breaks and corporate subsidies aren’t entitlements by another name.

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What Ails Us

Most genetic studies completely ignore the science of epigenetics, which is how the environment actually turns certain genes on or off.

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Disabled Well-Being