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Disability stories by and for disabled people. RootedInRights.org
Alice believed in the power of disability stories assertively and lovingly. Collaborating with Alice was a joy. As Alice said, “…I hope everyone will find their people and ways to express love for their communities each and everyday.”
November 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Alice believed in the power of disability stories assertively and lovingly. Collaborating with Alice was a joy. As Alice said, “…I hope everyone will find their people and ways to express love for their communities each and everyday.”
Writer, photographer, and digital content creator Brandon Jerrod reflects on their journey toward a reimagining of the concept of capacity, and its impact on the experiences of and outcomes for Black disabled people. #disability #BlackAndDisabled
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“Capacity” and the Complex Realities of Black Disabled Life
With two near-death cardiac episodes within the year, I’ve come to understand capacity in a way I never could have imagined. After months of being bedridden and my hospitalization in January, the c…
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September 5, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Writer, photographer, and digital content creator Brandon Jerrod reflects on their journey toward a reimagining of the concept of capacity, and its impact on the experiences of and outcomes for Black disabled people. #disability #BlackAndDisabled
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Lex Van Horn, a disabled library worker, shares useful and informative tips for using and improving libraries for fellow disabled library patrons. Learn about what you can find in a "library of things" - and more! #disability #libraries #accessibility
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Tips for Disabled Library Patrons
Public libraries aspire to be places where everyone—including disabled people—belong. They don’t always meet the mark, but disability advocates and disabled people within and outside of library wor…
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September 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Lex Van Horn, a disabled library worker, shares useful and informative tips for using and improving libraries for fellow disabled library patrons. Learn about what you can find in a "library of things" - and more! #disability #libraries #accessibility
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Our latest - from a Black autistic woman writing anonymously - talks about the intersection of disability and immigration from a personal lens, calling us to consider the ways that we can contribute to our diverse communities, often underserved by current systems.
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Many Hands Make the Load Lighter: The Importance of Community Care in Disabled and Immigrant Communities
Security, stability, and found family are aspects of community building that have defined my experience as an autistic Afro-Caribbean woman in the rural South. During my adolescence, I witnessed an…
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August 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Our latest - from a Black autistic woman writing anonymously - talks about the intersection of disability and immigration from a personal lens, calling us to consider the ways that we can contribute to our diverse communities, often underserved by current systems.
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Anonymous cat lady from LA highlights considerations for disabled job seekers in our newest blog post.
ID: A skeleton with bony arms raised sits behind a desk overlooking a laptop, calculator, and papers. Photo is an actual photo of the author (sarcasm).
ID: A skeleton with bony arms raised sits behind a desk overlooking a laptop, calculator, and papers. Photo is an actual photo of the author (sarcasm).
Considerations for the Disabled Job Seeker
Searching for a job is pretty much always a bad time, but there’s no denying it’s even harder when you have a disability. Many jobs ask if you need accommodations to apply. It’s supposed to be a be…
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August 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Anonymous cat lady from LA highlights considerations for disabled job seekers in our newest blog post.
ID: A skeleton with bony arms raised sits behind a desk overlooking a laptop, calculator, and papers. Photo is an actual photo of the author (sarcasm).
ID: A skeleton with bony arms raised sits behind a desk overlooking a laptop, calculator, and papers. Photo is an actual photo of the author (sarcasm).
@rikkipoynter.bsky.social shares her experience captioning videos as a deaf creator - and challenges hearing folks to do better. Check out the tools she uses and recommends, the bumps she experienced along the way, and the importance of accessibility.
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How I Edit and Caption My Videos as a Deaf Person
Have you ever wondered how a (mostly) oral deaf person edits and captions their own speaking videos? After all, it sounds strange for one to do so if they can’t hear and understand themselves very …
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July 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
@rikkipoynter.bsky.social shares her experience captioning videos as a deaf creator - and challenges hearing folks to do better. Check out the tools she uses and recommends, the bumps she experienced along the way, and the importance of accessibility.
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For the latest in our resources series, Ashley Soto shares a food prepping roadmap for ADHDers that draws from personal experience -and highlights the importance of self-compassion and unlearning internalized ableism. #disability #ADHD #DisabilityResources
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A Roadmap for ADHDers Who Just Want to Eat, But OMG It’s so Hard
My ADHD presents itself in a limited ability to plan (and eat) a meal. Between choosing a dish, sourcing ingredients, going to a grocery store, prepping, cooking…the thought alone overwhelms me and…
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July 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM
For the latest in our resources series, Ashley Soto shares a food prepping roadmap for ADHDers that draws from personal experience -and highlights the importance of self-compassion and unlearning internalized ableism. #disability #ADHD #DisabilityResources
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In the latest for our series of disabled takes on coping resources for these times, Shivank Pandey writes about his disability joy jar. Learn what it is, why it's important, and how you can make your own! #disability #joy #CopingStrategies
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The Disability Joy Jar: A Survival Recipe for Tough Days
When chronic fatigue or inaccessible spaces weigh me down, I turn to my Disability Joy Jar: a small mason jar brimming with scraps of paper, each holding a spark of joy or a survival tactic born fr…
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July 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
In the latest for our series of disabled takes on coping resources for these times, Shivank Pandey writes about his disability joy jar. Learn what it is, why it's important, and how you can make your own! #disability #joy #CopingStrategies
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Latonya "Penn" Pennington writes about managing the challenges of caregiving as a Black-Asian disabled person. Learn more about how poetry keeps them grounded in the midst of a world that lacks care for multiply marginalized people. Our latest series continues!
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Caregiving, Depression, and Poetry
Since I was thirteen years old, I’ve used poetry as one of my outlets for depression. Whether reading poems by someone else or writing my own, poetry has helped me find meaning in my emotions and e…
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June 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Latonya "Penn" Pennington writes about managing the challenges of caregiving as a Black-Asian disabled person. Learn more about how poetry keeps them grounded in the midst of a world that lacks care for multiply marginalized people. Our latest series continues!
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Though Shay Erlich's linked resources are specific to colonized Canada, they're great examples of resources and orgs that Shay encourages readers to consider both seeking and planting in your own communities. Our disabled resources series continues! #disability
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Building Your Own Community Program
EDITOR’S NOTE: The resources hyperlinked in this essay are specific to colonized Canada, but are included for readers as examples of the kinds of organizations and resources available, regard…
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June 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Though Shay Erlich's linked resources are specific to colonized Canada, they're great examples of resources and orgs that Shay encourages readers to consider both seeking and planting in your own communities. Our disabled resources series continues! #disability
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In our next essay on disabled resources for these times, @cavar.bsky.social writes about a personal creative practice called junk journaling. Learn more about what it is, how it's helped them, and how YOU can start! #disability #writing #journaling
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(Junk) Journaling Toward Connection
Sometimes (oftentimes) writing is the kind of thing we need to back ourselves into. Facing forward, diving in, especially from great proverbial heights, is simply Too Much—for those who don’t see t…
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May 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In our next essay on disabled resources for these times, @cavar.bsky.social writes about a personal creative practice called junk journaling. Learn more about what it is, how it's helped them, and how YOU can start! #disability #writing #journaling
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In case you missed it, Rasheera Dopson contributes to our resource sharing series with her own creation: a letter-writing community for disabled people of marginalized gender! Check out the inspiration for it - even fill out the Google form! #disability #community
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Letters of Connection: Building Disabled Community Through Snail Mail
“No one is healed in isolation…we heal in community.” ― bell hooks I came to love myself as a disabled woman within the intimacy of community. When safety and belongingness seemed absent, community…
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May 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
In case you missed it, Rasheera Dopson contributes to our resource sharing series with her own creation: a letter-writing community for disabled people of marginalized gender! Check out the inspiration for it - even fill out the Google form! #disability #community
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For the latest in our disabled community resources series, Nina McCollum shares her experiences with food pantries: best practices, tips, and why they're so needed. #disability #FoodInsecurity #foodpantries
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The Ins and Outs of Food Pantries
Many people who could benefit from food pantries don’t go. Whether pride holds you back or you think you don’t qualify, with grocery prices higher than ever, you should explore your local food pant…
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May 9, 2025 at 11:30 PM
For the latest in our disabled community resources series, Nina McCollum shares her experiences with food pantries: best practices, tips, and why they're so needed. #disability #FoodInsecurity #foodpantries
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May 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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For the third piece in our resources and survival series, @fullmetalharmony.bsky.social shares with us the app that makes building COVID-conscious connections easier! Learn what it is, how to access it, and its benefits! #disability #COVID-conscious
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Finding COVID-conscious Community
DISCLAIMER: This post is neither sponsored nor an ad. There are many reasons why some folks never went “back to normal” in the years following 2020. Some of us are immunocompromised, have Long COVI…
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April 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
For the third piece in our resources and survival series, @fullmetalharmony.bsky.social shares with us the app that makes building COVID-conscious connections easier! Learn what it is, how to access it, and its benefits! #disability #COVID-conscious
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Here's the first in our survival and perseverance series, disabled people sharing resources with the community. In a time when climate crisis is at our doorsteps, Danielle Brown shares some of their strategies for emergency preparedness. Check it out!
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The Next Inevitable Disaster: Emergency and Disaster Preparedness for Disabled Folks
Consider me cursed or consider me lucky but, in just under three decades, I’m now up to surviving 13 out of the 18 natural hazards listed on the National Risk Index. After the Los Angeles wildfires…
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March 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Here's the first in our survival and perseverance series, disabled people sharing resources with the community. In a time when climate crisis is at our doorsteps, Danielle Brown shares some of their strategies for emergency preparedness. Check it out!
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In case you missed it: in December, we gave a preview of what to expect from our new series with our OWN list of resources and tools that help US cope with these "unprecedented times." Check it out - be inspired for the current theme for our call for submissions!
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Resources for Today and Tomorrow
Photo Credit: Disabled and Here At Rooted in Rights, our mission is to share disability stories by and for disabled people. We share our stories to connect with disabled people who fight with us fo…
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February 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
In case you missed it: in December, we gave a preview of what to expect from our new series with our OWN list of resources and tools that help US cope with these "unprecedented times." Check it out - be inspired for the current theme for our call for submissions!
rootedinrights.org/resources-fo...
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In our latest blog post, Leslie Schmidt shares her experience with Bullseye Macular Dystrophy - and offers her take on how to talk to disabled people and ask questions about our disabilities. #disability #blindness #LowVision #BlindAndLowVision
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Bullseye
“Yep, I’m partially blind.” “No, glasses don’t help.” “Yes, I can get around on my own, in familiar places.” I do not begrudge for a minute the quest…
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February 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
In our latest blog post, Leslie Schmidt shares her experience with Bullseye Macular Dystrophy - and offers her take on how to talk to disabled people and ask questions about our disabilities. #disability #blindness #LowVision #BlindAndLowVision
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In case you missed it: Eleni Stephanides calculates the unseen financial cost of disability-related dietary needs - and lights a path forward toward equity. #disability #DietaryNeeds #Crohns #FoodAllergies #IBD #IBS
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The Cost of Comfort: Paying the Price for Dietary Accommodations
EDITOR’S NOTE: This blog discusses the added cost of dietary restrictions in day-to-day life. RiR also wants to acknowledge that dietary restrictions and allergens can be a matter of life or …
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February 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
In case you missed it: Eleni Stephanides calculates the unseen financial cost of disability-related dietary needs - and lights a path forward toward equity. #disability #DietaryNeeds #Crohns #FoodAllergies #IBD #IBS
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If you missed it: in December, Leah Stagnone joined us again to discuss the history and present of the intersection of disability and gender - and how to combat the structural myths that leave many chronically ill people behind. #disability #gender #ChronicIllness
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Doing Harm: How The Remnants of “Hysteria” Impact Chronically Ill People
EDITOR’S NOTE: We want to acknowledge that, like many societal institutions, scientific and historical research often leaves trans, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people out, erasing o…
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February 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
If you missed it: in December, Leah Stagnone joined us again to discuss the history and present of the intersection of disability and gender - and how to combat the structural myths that leave many chronically ill people behind. #disability #gender #ChronicIllness
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We made it to Bluesky! The Rooted in Rights blog has launched a new call for submissions, inviting disabled writers to share their survival and perseverance strategies in a 500-word blog piece.
Accepted submissions will be compensated with $400.
Writers can publish anonymously. (1/5)
Accepted submissions will be compensated with $400.
Writers can publish anonymously. (1/5)
Submit a Blog Idea
We invite you to pitch us, because your words have power and we want to help you share them.
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February 4, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We made it to Bluesky! The Rooted in Rights blog has launched a new call for submissions, inviting disabled writers to share their survival and perseverance strategies in a 500-word blog piece.
Accepted submissions will be compensated with $400.
Writers can publish anonymously. (1/5)
Accepted submissions will be compensated with $400.
Writers can publish anonymously. (1/5)