Photo courtesy Universal Pictures Wicked is one of the biggest Hollywood hits of the year, setting box office records and dominating cultural conversation since its Nov. 22 premiere. Marissa Bode, the first…
Tag: Disability
Daruma Isn’t Your Typical Disability Film
A new film executive-produced by Oscar-winner Peter Farrelly bills itself as “the first film in U.S. cinematic history to star two authentically cast disabled leads in a narrative not about overcoming disability.”…
How Meditation Helps Me Deal with Disability Grief
I have spent the past decade slowly but surely morphing into an affluent white woman. Tickets to the Metropolitan Opera at least once every month during the season? Check. Living with my…
How Religion Impacted My Growing Up With a Disability
New Year’s Eve 1999 was the first time my parents allowed my siblings and me to stay up past midnight. This made for a killer essay for English class, full of childhood…
Disability Ink Goes Mainstream
Erika Bogan by BAW Photography Mine is innocuous enough. It’s a little gecko on my lower abdomen that I got while attending the University of Florida’s homecoming in my freshman year of…