LIVING WITH AMPLITUDE

How GLP-1s Affect Prosthetic Fit

How GLP-1s Affect Prosthetic Fit

Weight-loss medications known as GLP-1 receptor agonists are changing more than the number on the scale. For many amputees, rapid ...
Therese Estacion on Disability, Rage, and Vulnerability

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, ...
Mountainfilm's Must-Watch Films on Disability

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, ...
SEBCM Gains More Momentum

SEBCM Gains More Momentum

On July 2, New Hampshire became the latest state to advance the So Every BODY Can Move (SEBCM) movement when ...

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Loving Yourself Again After Limb Loss

Loving Yourself Again After Limb Loss

This was new for me, and it was all because I had recently lost my leg to cancer at age ...
Turning Your Passion Into the Career of a Lifetime

Turning Your Passion Into the Career of a Lifetime

When Cindy Asch-Martin’s left leg was amputated below the knee in 2011 after years of pain, surgeries, and infection, she ...
The Star Behind the Scenes

The Star Behind the Scenes

When Amy Purdy’s glamorous face flashes onto a screen, the biographical montage that inevitably rolls next is a study in ...