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Heather Watkins is a Disability Advocate, author, blogger, mother, graduate of Emerson College with a B.S. in Mass Communications. Born with Muscular Dystrophy, loves reading, daydreaming, chocolate, and serves on a handful of disability-related boards. Her blog Slow Walkers See More includes reflections and insight from her life with disability.
Heather Watkins is a Disability advocate, author, blogger, mother, and graduate of Emerson College with a B.S. in Mass Communications. Born with Muscular Dystrophy, she serves on a handful of disability-related boards and is the former Chair of Boston Disability Commission Advisory Board.
It's been a minute since I've posted and so much has gone on as we embark on the second half of the year. Here in the US we're eighteen months into this administration's helm and cross-hairs especially if you're multiply-marginalized. You might feel some combination of drained., pained, and hanging on by your nails and [...]
As we usher in 2018 and bid farewell with balled fists to 2017, many of us in the disability community are exhausted from a year that kept us bracing for repeated attacks on our quality of life. It began with a new presidency and administration that almost immediately began making strides to weaken provisions and protections.
Twenty-seven years. That's how long it's been since the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.
In this series, "Why I Write," members of the Grub community share what compels them to put words onto paper day after day.
Heather Watkins is a Disability Advocate, author, blogger, mother, graduate of Emerson College with a B.S. in Mass Communications. Born with Muscular Dystrophy, Heather is a cane-user, loves readin...
As we continue with the #BlackDisabledGirlMagic series, we have seen the various perspectives about the lives Black disabled women live and our worth shared in our own words. If you have noticed, I have asked each woman the same questions; this was purposeful. Though we all share the same identities of being Black, disabled, and ...
Leroy Moore: I hope our futures continue to be intertwined with common experiences and opportunities for me to learn from you and your work/art. With that what is in your future and what advice would you give to a little Heather Watkins out there growing up today as a Black girl with a disability who has the same interest like Hip-Hop and being an advocate, a mother and so on?
As the music played at a recent family event - my grandmother's memorial dinner - I was doing my usual 'chair dancing', but was urged by one of my aunties to move beyond just sitting, swinging and tapping. Her suggestion included, "Life is short, the beat is calling, and if you want to dance, just get up and do it!"