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Essays and reflections rooted in disabled joy — and the messy, beautiful experience of navigating the world with a disability. Written by Ali Cameron, the voice behind Seated Perspectives.

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Today’s prompt comes from some of the thinking I’ve been doing around what disabled joy means to me. And so often, it’s tied to ease.

And ease only really comes when I’m able to put down the armour that being disabled requires of me.

The...

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This is quickly becoming a highlight of my week. Finding and celebrating disabled joy — and things that are joyful to disabled folks in a unique way — fills my heart.

Being Heumann

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I cried when I couldn’t figure out the linear equation

I can still picture the exact moment it happened. I was at a table with my mom trying to work through some grade 9 math sets, and I just couldn’t get it.

y = mx + b — the linear equation

(Of course, now it just lives rent free in my brai...

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Disabled Joy Journals

Today’s prompt:

Who or what makes joy feel easy?

We talk a lot about joy as something to reach for. But sometimes it arrives without effort, in the presence of a particular person, animal, place, or ritual. Who or what does that for you?...

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I am no longer the girl who fell

My cousin shared this line with me yesterday, and it immediately invited me to sit with what it meant for me: “A big part of who I am is who I am no longer.”

That rings true, no?

The person I am today is shaped by all the previous versi...

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  • Ali | Seated Perspectives

    Disabled writer, speaker, and community builder. I write for disabled readers who want to feel seen and understood. Joy, lived experience, community, and everything tangled up in the three. Vancouver-based, Argentina-grown.

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