Advocacy Burnout
Advocacy burnout is the exhaustion, grief, anger, and depletion that can follow sustained efforts to secure basic safety, access, and dignity from institutions. It is intensified when systems require families to keep proving harms that should already be visible.
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The barn, not the mother
A version of you existed before all this, and she would have been horrified. She would have watched you zip up that backpack, drive them to school, walk them to the door, and she would have known what you were doing: handing your child directly to the building that will hurt them today. Maybe the…
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10 unhinged things I did to try to keep my disabled child in school
For every woman who has stayed up until two in the morning reading the Human Rights Code with a highlighter, looking for the sentence that will save her child. For every mother who has rehearsed her opening in the shower, workshopped her tone in the car, changed her shirt three times, taken half a beta…