Category: Identity & Neurodivergence

  • Writing From the Margins: Bruised Not Broken

    Writing From the Margins: Bruised Not Broken

    If you’ve ever gone looking for yourself in a book, a classroom, or a conversation and come up empty, you know the particular ache of it. Not being disagreed with — being unimagined. The world we’ve inherited wasn’t built with a common language for neurodivergent identities, which means too many of our stories go unwritten,…

  • When the Backbone Disappears: Belonging as Infrastructure

    When the Backbone Disappears: Belonging as Infrastructure

    You may have felt it without naming it: a quiet thinning of the places that used to hold people together. The block that had a gathering spot. The community that assumed you’d show up, and noticed when you didn’t. For a lot of us, especially anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider, those spaces were…