Category: Advocacy
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Split Wide Open
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After years of fighting for my daughter’s inclusion, I find myself split wide open—grieving school closures, Medicaid cuts, and a country that keeps choosing cruelty. This is a story about rage, resilience, and the song that made me pull over and finally feel it all.
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When the Crowd Goes Quiet
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At one point on this journey, I found myself deep in an advocacy effort alongside a younger mom—newer to the world of disability rights, but fierce, brilliant, and already exhausted by the weight of this fight. We were trying to create real change. The kind that disrupts power structures. The…
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The GOP’s Big Beautiful Assault on the Disability Community
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I stare out the window at the giant TRUMP sign on the hillside of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Is there no escaping him? I turn to my husband and sigh, “I am going to put my earbuds in and face the music. I have to listen to the School Board meeting.”…