by Amelia Loken | Jul 10, 2026 | Writing
Some weeks, writing feels like trying to light a match in a windstorm. Even if you get a spark, it’s extinguished before you can feel its warmth or transfer it to the waiting kindling. It can feel like an exercise in futility. Why even bother? But what happens, then?...
by Amelia Loken | Jun 20, 2026 | Disability Models
The Rights‑Based Model of Disability starts with a bold truth: disabled people have inherent human rights, and any barrier that denies those rights is discrimination. This model reframes disability not as tragedy, charity, or medical defect, but as a matter of...
by Amelia Loken | Jun 6, 2026 | Writing
Slow Productivity offers disabled writers a sustainable, disability‑justice–aligned way to build a writing life that actually lasts. In his book, titled Slow Productivity, Cal Newport writes: “Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality.” That line...
by Amelia Loken | May 29, 2026 | Disability Models
After writing about the Charitable Model and the Medical Model, stepping into the Social Model feels like opening a window in a stuffy room. Suddenly, there’s space to breathe. Space to imagine. Space to belong. Where earlier models locate disability inside the person...
by Amelia Loken | May 11, 2026 | Disability Models
When the Body Becomes the Problem The Medical Model of Disability is the one most people know—even if they’ve never heard the term. It frames disability as a problem located in the body, something medicine should diagnose, treat, or cure. For centuries, this was...
