Medical expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy in America. We're also the only first-world country without universal healthcare, yet we have the most expensive healthcare system globally.

It shouldn't be controversial to believe that a person's class shouldn't dictate whether they live or die. The idea that class is a reliable indicator of worth is problematic.

🌟 Cover Reveal + Preorder!🌟

I am overjoyed to announce that my debut picture book, Yumi and Monster, is releasing September 2, 2025, and is now open for preorders!

🩷 Preorder on my website @ https://www.kamredlawsk.com/yumi-and-monster

“There was a complete emptiness in children’s culture in Germany after the war. When all the Nazi books and culture had been thrown away, there was a vacuum, and then Pippi came and filled it up.”  - Astrid Lindgren

For the last couple of years, I’ve been consulting on the new PBS Kids series SKILLSVILLE, an animation that encourages kids to “power up” the skills they need for success in future careers and everyday life!

McMahon's directive is to oversee the department until she is no longer employed, making it clear that eliminating the ED as part of its "anti-DEI" agenda is the ultimate goal, which could mean that poor and disabled kids won't have a seat at education and opportunities.

For disabled people there’s an extra enigmatic layer around dating, relationships and intimacy. ‘How is this going to work?’ is not a question relegated only to prying eyes from strangers, yet also an internalized ember burning deep within. When you have an accident or are born with a disability and reach the age of sexual intrigue, no one tells you how sex works in this (new) disabled body. In fact, many doctors say your life, including your sex life, is over as they told me.

The DEl war serves as a catchall manufactured distraction to disparage - a great distraction from the real cover story: the wealthiest man in the world, an unelected official, has unchecked access to our government, including pushing out top officials & illegally gaining access to Americans' payment system...

Nearly 1 in 4 adults across the world are lonely. The loneliness epidemic in America, with 58% feeling like no one knows them well, is highest amongst the young than those over 65. 

With technological advancement and more access to instant social “connection” we’re (allegedly) more connected than ever, so why are we so lonely.

In this book I give you my heart — all the struggles, feelings of loneliness, isolation, uncertainty and unworthiness. I know I keep saying so, but I truly can't wait for you to see what I saw so many years ago when I fell. So much of me is evident in this story and how I chose to present such a moment. I wanted to be careful and nuanced in how I portrayed this part of disability. I sincerely hope you’ll love it.

My Wheel Girl is at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum.

“Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice” is an exhibition that’s part of Getty's initiative PST ART: “Art & Science Collide". Featuring works by hundreds of contemporary artists, scientists, and activists with topics ranging from climate change and environmental justice to the future of AI and alternative medicine, you can find PST art in museums & institutions across the region.

While looking at the Detroit skyline from my tiny studio apartment, I made the impetuous decision to visit Korea. This would be my first time back in 20 years, since my adoption at age 4 by a white family in Michigan. It was the summer of 2003, and I booked my ticket two weeks before departure. This was also the period when the mysterious weakening of my legs had begun (the first signs of my genetic neuromuscular disorder that made me a full-time wheelchair user), and this hastened my sense of urgency, despite feeling nervous about traveling alone.

Lost in Thought. Lost in Me. Lost in You. Lost in Japan.

As you know, I’ve been wheelchair traveling around Japan. It’s been 3 weeks today, and we have 12 more days here before we head to Taiwan and Korea. So far we’ve completed Tokyo, Matsumoto, Takayama and Japan Alps and Nagoya. We’re working on crossing off our last 2 cities before we leave Japan.

May 27, 2024 @ 3:45AM / Takayama, Japan 

I’m awake and in insurmountable pain. Fatigue has cloaked me from sky to floor. My chronic stomach is no friend of mine. I could never explain the pain I’ve been in behind the smiles. The smile is genuine as I’m able to ignore pain when I’m truly inspired to live while traveling or creating, but eventually my body catches up and reminds me who is boss. My will is constantly pushing against my body, and I’m just an innocent bystander watching it happen.

Collectively, we hold a diverse array of stories, hell-bent resilience, softness, power, stories to tell from our bellies, talents, style, humor and dreams—and though we all hold disability in common, our individual stories tree-branch into a variety of perspectives; further contextualizing the simple narrative the disabled community has unfairly been dealt.

Oliver, a passionate humanist, deeply cared for his patients and people. Read his books. His work helped humanize the stories behind patient cases; an example of what a good doctor should be. He put humanity into medical care; humanizing his patients by not focusing on what they were “missing” and instead, armed with exceptional curiosity, looked for the richness in differing experiences; a perspective he could never have but took the time to ask. 

When you find out you’re going to be disabled, one of the first things you may think of is sex and dating. “How is this going to work?” is not a question relegated only to curious prying eyes from strangers yet also an internalized one that can burn deep within.

The phrase, ‘Disability Is Not A Bad Word’ comes from the need to tell society that, yes, we may be disabled, but this does not mean our lives are smaller than yours. We are not smaller than you. It means we are not monoliths or riddled with only sadness-void of agency or worth-as you may immediately suspect. It means we are full multi dimensional beings with abilities, desires, contributions, passions and dreams with the capability to influence love and eroticism. It means we have all the same range of emotions and quality of living as non disabled people.

I've become afraid of my body. I appreciate her and all she has carried us through, but I'm still afraid. I'm afraid of new treacherous body tales, new pain and an uncertain future. I'm afraid of its fragility. I'm afraid of the inevitable.

When you’re disabled vulnerability inevitably surrounds your every move (or lack thereof). You're vulnerable in ways most people don’t have to think of, and if you require a lot of assistance like me, vulnerability comes without a choice or modesty-from required help with all bathroom exchanges to getting dressed to needing help in every single daily act.

This is me.

When I’m finally tired of having no independence.

When I’m finally tired of dripping fatigue.

When I’m finally tired of unrelenting pain.

When I’m finally tired of losing everything I love.

When I’m finally tired of being tired.