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x-ray of my spine with grade 4 spondylolisthesis What broke down... The idea that I can be like them. I want to stand in, But my body forces me to stand out. Ignore. As much as I can. As much as is possible. It's not possible. No, try harder. But I don't bend. I can't fit myself into their mold, As hard as I try to hold, My body already broke. What grew instead... I don't take for granted, The ability to move. And yet I know I'm my body, and more. Identify with the I that is

This world was made for people who have stamina People who can hop on a train, stand up for 30 minutes, then run up a flight of stairs, walk five blocks, work all day, and do it in record time, because, by the way, you are being timed. And repeat the whole process again. People who put their spirit and needs aside to just continue producing, and for what? Not for people who have tingling in their feet or who have pain so intense it feels like fire from head to toe - and by t

This space is a system - do you integrate me into the system, or, do you integrate the system to me? When I enter into it with my accommodation, the whole space shifts, the whole system shifts. Yet, accommodations have been applied in an isolated way.

Analyzing the experience of employees with disabilities as it relates to the leaders conflict style and the organizational conflict culture. Within an organization, a supervisor’s actions impact accessibility, perhaps even more than the human resources department (HR). Here’s one of my latest experiences trying to get accommodations which demonstrates this. I first went to HR with my Doctor's letter explaining the accommodations that I needed due to my neuropathic pain and sp

An overview of conflict resolution theories as applied to workplace accommodation requests. Although we may want to believe it’s not...

Communications Theory - Coordinated Management of Meaning's impact on workplace accommodations, mediation, and negotiation.

Organizational structures that support accommodations preserve embodied feminine wisdom of disability.

Insights provided through the Critical Post Modern Framework of Organizational Power.

This is a personal excerpt written after an experience where an administrator told me to make my requests with the Disability Services...

The 2020 move to remote opened a world of possibilities for me.

W. Barnett Pearce reminds us that through the act of communicating, certain words imply a set of actions that must be coordinated with...

"Pain medication so you can do life our way," But what does the pain have to say, does it need to be erased, Does it have a message, A soul of its own, A wisdom, a teaching, a wish to find a home, How does it transform, through methods of honoring and speaking to it, When we see it, there is so much we learn. What are we missing when we don't take the time to stop and listen? Can we take the time when we're rushed, pressured and pushed to keep up? Pain; does it have a soul

Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) techniques can be used to facilitate shared meaning of disability and accessibility. Coordinated...

Allen McNair Exit 47 (2022) Purchase here Defining 'disability' Current debates within the Disability Studies community on how to define...

The importance of elevating the voices of the disabled in rural Guatemala through qualitative research. Disability studies can be...

Social movements and activism as a method to reach for power in a world content with sidelining us. Untitled, 2023 Alex Becerra, Arts of...

In my Honors Thesis research paper, I wrote about how institutional ableism is taught at a young age and then reproduced throughout one’s...

Part Four of How Much Are You Worth?: Toward an Economic Theory of Disability Eugenics “ Those who aren’t able to operate well within the...