Rebekah Taussig

Taussig is the author of Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

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Judy Heumann Insisted Disabled People Belong

She lived in a story of her own making, and she expected the world to bend to it, not the other way around.

By Rebekah Taussig

What We Actually Learned From the Pandemic

There may not be a single collective lesson from the pandemic, but that doesn't mean we didn't learn something.

By Rebekah Taussig

How to Stay Grounded in the Uncertainty of the Pandemic

I recently went back to visit the high school where I used to teach. I met with a handful of kids in my old classroom, and as I looked around at the same pictures on...

By Rebekah Taussig

The Disempowering Experience of Flying as a Disabled Person

I am the youngest daughter of a man who paid his way through college working 50 hours a week, replacing sleep with sheer grit. He raised six kids and still woke before dawn for his...

By Rebekah Taussig

My Pandemic Baby Is Willing Us Outside

I am a different person now than I was when this pandemic started. I don’t just mean that I’ve stopped wearing makeup and started wearing leggings as my work-and-play uniform, although, yes, that too. Everything...

By Rebekah Taussig

Living in a Tangle of Joy and Pain

It was a night in mid-April that I fell asleep to the phrase this is too hard pinging through my brain, and they were the first words to cross my mind when I opened my...

By Rebekah Taussig

I've Been Paralyzed Since I Was 3. Here's Why Kindness Toward Disabled People Is More Complicated Than You Think

Your efforts to help disabled people may not always have the intended effect

By Rebekah Taussig
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