Advocacy

Advocacy

Essays and field notes about speaking truth, challenging systems, and pushing for change.

• The Bureaucracy of Survival

  A Blackthorn Field Notes essay on disability, poverty, fragmented social services, and the hidden labor of surviving systems that do not talk to each other.

• Welcome to Blackthorn Field Notes

  The launch of Blackthorn Field Notes: a place for advocacy, disability, systems, survival, and the work of staying human.

• Disabled Does Not Mean Life Is Over

  Disabled does not mean someone’s life is over.