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Beauty As Healing

Beauty As Healing

by Laura Marie Strawberry Nopales | Jul 26, 2025 | Culture, Disabled Love, July 2025

Last night I dreamt that I was holding a baby. It was Candice’s baby. In my dream, Candice was still alive, as vibrant and beautiful as ever, but having “a hard time.” So I was helping care for her baby. Often in my baby dreams, the baby has an unrealistic...
Disabled Love: Community is Already Inside You – Conflict

Disabled Love: Community is Already Inside You – Conflict

by Laura Marie Strawberry Nopales | Jun 21, 2025 | Culture, Disabled Love, June 2025

“We found an old document explaining conflict in the community 20 years ago. I had to read it twice because the conflict was the exact same conflict we just had, but with different names.” We were in the garden, and I was resting on a blanket as my friend sat in a...
community, access intimacy, and failure / May 2025

community, access intimacy, and failure / May 2025

by Laura Marie Strawberry Nopales | May 24, 2025 | Culture, Disabled Love, May 2025 Posts

To be disabled is to have failed. I don’t mean we’ve failed inherently, but our culture tells us whose bodies matter, and it’s not us. Having failed gives as certain problems, like with making money, staying housed, finding partners, keeping our children,...
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