In honor of Disability Pride Month, here are a few book recommendations for both disabled and non-disabled folks to learn about the history, the movements, and the lived experiences of disabled people.

Our limitations may look different and we may require a little extra planning and recovery time, but if we take the right steps to support our bodies, we can still enjoy being in nature.

The biomedical model’s limitations, combined with its influence on our society, has led to extensive consequences for the patients whose cases fall outside of its narrow scope.

In this article, I explain what an atheist is and is not, discuss the myth that atheists are “angry at God”, and share what I do believe in and what my godless worldview looks like.

There are as many unique experiences of disability as there are individuals living with them. In this article, I will offer insight into the particular challenges I face and the privileges I hold in an effort to demonstrate a few of those differences, as well as some common misconceptions about what it means to be disabled.

I learned the hard way that sexism is still common in the medical world: the myth of “female hysteria” remains pervasive, women’s pain is often dismissed, and to some doctors, the only thing that matters is a woman’s fertility.

We need to learn to resist the urge to offer unsolicited and oversimplified medical advice for complex, incurable, chronic medical conditions.

I don’t have a body. I have an amorphous blob of pain floating somewhere beneath my head. It hurts so loud that my ears are ringing. An orchestra of nerve endings vibrating in excruciating symphony.

I don’t want to be pitied and I don’t want to be an inspiration, but those seem to be the only two categories in which people with disabilities are placed.