From Rocky Dennis to Dating Apps: Still No Button for That 🎉 Happy 22nd Birthday, AudacityMagazine.com! Celebrate 22 years of fearless, unapologetic voices that challenge, provoke, and uplift. When Ramps …
Living With a Disability: The Harsh Truth No One Wants to Hear
Every time I start to write about what it’s like to be disabled, to live with chronic pain, I ameventually reminded by some well-meaning reader of The Rule: we’re not …
Half Way into 2025? Almost. June Horoscope Guides You.
Welcome to June—the cosmic halftime show of 2025. Well, almost. But let’s get ahead of the curve. Whether you’re sweating through a heatwave in the Northern Hemisphere or bundling up …
There’s No Shame in Wanting More
Living 36 years in a wheelchair hasn’t stopped me from wanting more from life—or from rejecting anyone who tries to shame me for it. In my 54 years of living—and …
What They Missed: A Gifted Mind in a Disabled Body
In 1981, we left behind the red and gold leaves of New York—the tall maples and oaks that lined our street—for Miami’s skinny palm trees and walls of heat. I …
How to Help Without Enabling: A Lesson From One Disabled Person to Another
As a physically disabled woman, I’ve received my fair share of help and given plenty of it too. But over time, I’ve learned a hard truth: helping someone doesn’t always …
Disabled New Yorkers Fear CDPAP Transition as April 1 Deadline Looms
This is no April Fools’ joke. Thousands of disabled New Yorkers stand to lose their personal care assistance services if a transition of New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program …
The Double Standard I Didn’t Know I Was Living By
I’ve always held myself to higher standards than anyone else. Part of it comes from necessity—when you’re a physically disabled woman navigating a world that wasn’t built for you, you …
Will the Disabled Community Conceding Lead to New Precedents?
Over the past few months, I’ve had conversations with people across different industries about the rollback of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives. For some, it was just another corporate …