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Therese Estacion on Disability, Rage, and Vulnerability
Therese Estacion’s forthcoming collection, Jelly, Baby: Essays on Disability and Vulnerability, refuses silence. Across six lyrical essays, Estacion explores disability, grief, rage, vulnerability, and the lingering impact of ableism with an honesty that is at once poetic, political, and deeply ...
Mountainfilm’s Must-Watch Films on Disability
I heard one festival-goer joke that it was “an act of God to get here.” But that didn’t stop producers, directors, and athletes with disabilities from traveling to Telluride, Colorado, for Mountainfilm, where this year’s festival featured about half a ...
Healthy Skin, Better Fit
Moisturizing feels good, and it’s essential for maintaining healthy skin. For many people, it’s simply part of their everyday routine. However, moisturizing a residual limb when you wear a prosthesis can get a little tricky ...
Is a Woman Who Has a Mastectomy an Amputee?
As a professional immersed in the world of O&P and a woman with a bilateral mastectomy, I didn’t consider myself an amputee. Was I wrong? When I had a bilateral mastectomy over a decade ago, it never occurred to me ...
Peace Offerings
If you're wearing a prosthetic limb today—whether it’s a microprocessor knee, a bionic hand, or a carbon fiber running blade—it’s using technology that was shaped in some fundamental way by an American war ...
When the Cultural Tax Attacks
I’m standing in a conference space while people move around me. They’re mostly male, over 40, and nondisabled (or at least that’s my assumption at first glance), garbed in collared shirts and nice pants, drinks in hand ...
The Market Place of Ideas
The first time I went to a prosthetic fitting, I was in third grade. I was born without my left hand and forearm, and honestly, I could get around just fine without a prosthetic. But from early on, there was ...
Amputees Discover the Power of Negative Thinking
When an amputee influencer asked people what they love about living with limb loss, she got some thoughtful responses. But when she asked what people hate about limb loss, something amazing happened ...
