I have always found myself when writing.
I write about the gap between my able-bodied and disabled life. Often raw and emotional, with occasional cultural observations on what life looks like when you've lived on both sides.
I am open to writing for the right places.
We don't belong in one box
01
"We're all taught to lead with our labels. We are so proud to represent something and so quick to stick a label on someone else. And in the process, we shrink ourselves and each other down. We get boxed in. Until the very things that made us visible start being used to keep us small and separate. Our identities, meant to be worn with pride, so often used as weapons. But here's the truth: We are human. And we don't belong in one box. I hold more than one identity."
Forgiveness not Permission
02
"Back in the mountains, it occurs to me that the real rollercoaster we are navigating is the emotions that come with doing the things we want whilst using a wheelchair."
How We Roll Round
03
“I wanted to see the world. That alone was a pillar in the sand I could keep sight of. So when I got washed out to sea, learning how to deal with disability, I always knew where the shoreline was.”
Fear
04
"I guess the moral I take from my own story is this. Most things that come to pass are never as bad as the idea we'd built up about them. And even when they are, more often than not, we can survive and maybe even thrive. There is so much I am scared of in this modern world. Failure. Rejection. But being disabled is not one of them"