As I write this, bolts of electric pain shimmer down my right leg and up toward my shoulder as my joints throb in time with my heart. Every time I stand, my vision kaleidoscopes to black and back ...

Living with a less immediately visible or less widely understood disability can often be lonely, in part because our friends and family members don’t always know what our experience of the world is ...

Seventy million people in the United States have learning and thinking differences, such as dyslexia and ADHD, according to Understood.org. That’s roughly one in five people. Yet, according to a ...

Coauthored by Kate Copeland and Kathleen Bogart, Ph.D. Source: Justin Katigbak / Disabled and Here / Creative Commons attribution license Imagine waking up every day knowing that you’ll have to ...

When we use the term “disability,” many people think about the obvious, including mobility impairments and common sensory disabilities, such as blindness. However, disabilities also include a number ...

There’s a big problem with work that’s invisible to too many of us: According to the CDC, 61 million adults in the United States (26%), have at least one disability. About half of that group: 33 ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Many thoughts race through Ashleigh Gordon’s mind on the first day of a new ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. CATHY WURZER: Today at the Capitol, pretty busy day at the Capitol. Disability advocates from across Minnesota are gathering for Disability Advocacy Day.

Just two months after I started my master’s in history program in 2021, an emergency room doctor in Columbia, S.C., reviewed my MRI scan and told me that I had multiple sclerosis: I would continue to ...