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# Rebekah Taussig

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## Rebekah Taussig


_Taussig is the author of_ [Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062936794/ref=as%5Fli%5Fqf%5Fasin%5Fil%5Ftl?ie=UTF8&tag=time037-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0062936794&linkId=756219840cde535ebb49ef326a221c84)


## Rebekah Taussig


* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4fbd4581ec39b0db/6a4bf611034c703a8e8a7b8e/260727_vessay_001NEW_v1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jul 7, 2026  
### [The Unexpected Way AI Helped Me Appreciate My Body](https://time.com/article/2026/07/07/ai-disabled-body/)  
An AI-hating writer starts chatting with an AI bot  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![TaussigEssay](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a54b590c354e54f/6998c452d32e934911cd6c18/TaussigEssay.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 24, 2025  
### [I'm a Disabled Woman. Is That My Brand?](https://time.com/7225536/disability-dei-brand-rebekah-taussig-essay/)  
Rebekah Taussig writes about worrying she is squandering the power of her voice if she speaks about ...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![View of activists participating in a 'Section 504' demonstration in UN Plaza, San Francisco, California, April 5, 1977](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt801e398cb3c316eb/6998c3b4e1ba0090a598d38e/section-504-disability-act-1977-protest.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 19, 2025  
### [A Lawsuit Threatens Disability Rights](https://time.com/7258245/disability-protections-section-504-texas-v-becerra-essay/)  
Attorneys general from 17 states have argued that Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act should be de...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Obit Judy Heumann](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfa70cef69f7c8c5b/698a3aed096a9408586ad8eb/Judy-Heumann-001.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Mar 9, 2023  
### [Judy Heumann Insisted Disabled People Belong](https://time.com/6261131/judy-heumann-death-disability-essay/)  
She lived in a story of her own making, and she expected the world to bend to it, not the other way ...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt225c0cd3bac5cd90/698a357c457a52b4e1d66cfd/PandemicLessons.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Sep 20, 2022  
### [What We Actually Learned From the Pandemic](https://time.com/6211424/lessons-from-pandemic-essay/)  
There may not be a single collective lesson from the pandemic, but that doesn't mean we didn't learn...  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)  
* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt68b10cf9c4a974de/698a224a47ca3870763b940a/pandemic-uncertainty.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Feb 14, 2022  
### [How to Stay Grounded in the Uncertainty of the Pandemic](https://time.com/6146958/pandemic-uncertainty/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt161f7b3241178d2e/698a1e3edb2987b56e26705f/flying-disabled-challenges-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Nov 1, 2021  
### [The Disempowering Experience of Flying as a Disabled Person](https://time.com/6111731/flying-disabled/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Rebekah Taussig breastfeeds her son, Otto, in their home in April 2021.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltbc01b6df05229251/698a191422fb855803e2c211/Rebekah-Taussig-motherhood-pandemic.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Apr 28, 2021  
### [My Pandemic Baby Is Willing Us Outside](https://time.com/5958537/pandemic-baby-disabled-mom-rebekah-taussig/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Living with Joy and Pain](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8375c0fbd306330e/698a15c1457a52f7bfd64c1e/joy-pain-rebekah-taussig-featured.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Jan 5, 2021  
### [Living in a Tangle of Joy and Pain](https://time.com/5926361/pandemic-pain-joy/)  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)
* ![Taussig outside her home in Kansas City, Mo., on Aug. 6](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt09f1c0ba2575f09d/698a117c97cdff34346bb13b/disability-kindness-01-vertical.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1)  
Aug 20, 2020  
### [I've Been Paralyzed Since I Was 3\. Here's Why Kindness Toward Disabled People Is More Complicated Than You Think](https://time.com/5881597/disability-kindness/)  
Your efforts to help disabled people may not always have the intended effect  
[IDEAS](/section/ideas/)

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