by Adana Protonentis My experience with disability is constantly shifting. Like many people, I grew up with media depictions of disability that lacked nuance and taught me a whole host of stereotypes and assumptions. I assumed disability was static, easy to identify, and that figuring out accommodations would be straightforward. Real life is very  different. While I’ve been disabled for over 20 years, I didn’t receive an accurate diagnosis until six years ago. My disability i

by Adana Protonentis "It’s radical to imagine that the future is disabled. Not just tentatively allowed to exist, not just ok I guess there’s one white guy with a wheelchair, cool, diversity . But a deeply disabled future: a future where disabled, Deaf, Mad, neurodivergent body-minds are both accepted without question as part of a vast spectrum of human and animal ways of existing, but where our cultures, knowledge and communities shape the world. What would a future look lik

Dear Adana, Who knew that work could feel like an extension of "home?" The kind of "home" that I miss when I step away for awhile...the...

by Adana Protonentis And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of...