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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 ...
Round-Trip Tickets for Amputee Travelers
Accessible tourism is rapidly moving from the margins into the mainstream. Here's a guide to help you navigate one of the fastest-growing segments of the travel industry ...
Limb Loss and the Law of the Jungle
Only the fittest survive in nature. So how, asks an evolutionary theorist, do so many animals prosper after limb loss? The answers say a lot about disability and evolution ...
Aurushi’s Adaptive Clothing Blends Artistry and Resilience
When Gabriel Cardier started designing adaptive apparel, he learned that strength and beauty live in the seams—and those seams connect us all. That philosophy guides his new company, Aurushi ...
AMI Surgery Pushes the Boundaries of Limb-loss Experience
Choosing revision surgery on my residual limb required a huge mental step. I already had a pretty high quality of life as an amputee. Why mess with a (mostly) good thing? ...
