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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Episode 11: The Wisdom of Disabled Parenting with Jessica Slice