🔖 Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office. (HuffPost) by Emily McCombs

A good read; not nearly as dramatic as the headline makes it sound.

🔖♿ Read Disability Status Shouldn’t Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith.

Excellent column illuminating the challenges in and importance of recognizing disability as a spectrum of experiences.

🔖📚 Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth

The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I love Osworth’s discussion of how it marks gender and symbolizes vulnerability. I want a world where masculinity embraces vulnerability.

🔖 Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Can’t Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel Vorona Cote

🔖 Read What Tarot Taught Me About the Stories We Tell (Catapult) by Mishka Hoosen

CW: Racism, rape

A beautiful meditation on one person’s relationship with the Tarot. My practice has fallen aside lately.

🔖 Read Teachers Are Told to Ignore Their Bodies, But Chronic Pain Made Me Listen to Mine (Catapult) by Chiara di Lello

🔖 Read The World Doesn’t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents) (Catapult) by Katie Rose Pryal

It breaks my heart when adults won’t figure out how to work with the kids in their lives who don’t conform.

🔖 Read twisty little passages (Catapult) by Jess Zimmerman.

A beautiful, heartbreaking short story told in the form of a text adventure.

🔖 Read The Coronavirus’s Next Move (The Atlantic) by Katherine J. Wu.

🔖 Read The Girlboss Has Left the Building.