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Gabriel Castano
Jan 74 min read
Day in the Life: Interior Designer Maegan Blau
As a child, Maegan Blau was always painting walls, rearranging furniture in her bedroom and spending after-school time in her family’s...
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Gabriel Castano
Nov 12, 20246 min read
Roadmaps: Not What I Imagined for Us
Rebekah Taussig and Hannah Soyer use their personal experience to explore some of the messiest questions that living with disability...
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Gabriel Castano
Oct 1, 20245 min read
Tips for Dealing with Spasticity
Anyone who lives with spasticity can testify to just how irritating and inconvenient spasms can be. Spasms can cause pain, insomnia and...
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Gabriel Castano
Sep 5, 20242 min read
Parenting From a Wheelchair
In 2018, we published a collection of essays from wheelchair-using parents, all at slightly different stages of their parenting journeys....
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Gabriel Castano
Jul 18, 20249 min read
My Search for the Best Treatment Option When My Shoulders Went South
“Your shoulders are a mess.” When my orthopedic surgeon delivered the news in 2022, I already knew the headline. Thirty-nine years as an...
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Gabriel Castano
May 29, 20244 min read
Phoenix i is the First Wheelchair with Integrated Power Assist
A new wheelchair from the U.K. has the most innovative frame to hit the market in decades. The base of the Phoenix i is a one-piece...
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Gabriel Castano
May 2, 20246 min read
Jaimen Hudson: Eyes in the Sky
May 1, 2024 Alex Ghenis Photo by Jaimen Hudson Before he racked up credits filming for Netflix, PBS and the Australian Broadcasting...
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Gabriel Castano
Apr 16, 202411 min read
8 Steps to Understanding and Improving Your Emotional Health after Disability-by Jenny Smith
My journey with a C6-7 spinal cord injury began when I was 16 years old. Like most of us, I entered the world of disability without...
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Gabriel Castano
Apr 3, 202411 min read
Making Peace with My Spinal Cord Injury
Outside the window the summer sky is impossibly blue and oblivious to my plight on this bed. Sorrow pierces my heart, and a sob catches...
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Gabriel Castano
Mar 14, 202412 min read
The Airline Whisperer: How One Wheelchair User is Making Air Travel More Accessible from the Inside
In the 10 years since he founded wheelchairtravel.org, John Morris has racked up well over a million miles flying around the world and...
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Gabriel Castano
Aug 5, 20232 min read
Disability Media Network Offers Authentic Disability Content on New Streaming Service
Representation in the media is powerful. Seeing stories on screen that reflect your experience can offer comfort, validation and hope....
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Gabriel Castano
Aug 5, 20236 min read
A Better Way to Measure Disability Representation
Like many people with disabilities, as I get older, I function more and more on “Crip Time.” In other words, milestones for us occur...
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Gabriel Castano
Aug 1, 20237 min read
Dr. Feranmi Okanlami: Fighting for Access and Equality in the Hospitals and on the Courts
Fe ranmi Okanlami knew he wanted to be a doctor at a young age. “I was always interested in science and how the body worked. In medicine...
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