The Mother Of It All

Episode 11: The Wisdom of Disabled Parenting with Jessica Slice


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Author and speaker Jessica Slice talks to Sarah about how disability culture has taught her to reject perfectionism, how internalized ableism makes parenting harder for all of us, and the beauty of building a family where everyone accepts and expresses their needs.


Links:


Jessica’s website and Substack newsletter


Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong


Lucy Webster’s The View From Down Here


Andrew Leland’s The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight


We've Got This: Essays by Disabled Parents, edited by Eliza Hull



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