This post features a short clip from my time as a 2025 Carrie Buck Fellow at Brandeis University, through the Carrie Buck Fellowship at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy. The clip comes from a live conversation with Rebecca Cokley, where I am asked a deceptively simple question: Why is Consent so Radical? What follows […]
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By Laura Millar, MPH, M.A., MCHES This article was written for Dr. Adam Graves’s class at San Francisco State University’s Program in Visual Impairments, in preparation for a panel discussion on how to incorporate sexual health education, bodily autonomy, and consent into the Expanded Core Curriculum. Introduction: The Conversation We’re Not Having When I was […]
Image Description: A black screen with white text that reads the single word “Image.” This is what blind and deafblind people encounter when public health information is presented without accessibility, the word “image” where information should be. Blog Excerpt Imagine that behind that black screen with the word “Image” on it is important health information […]
By Laura Millar, MPH, MA, MCHES Listen to the full Deep Dive podcast episode here: Beyond the Sensory Deficit: Why Blindness Belongs in the Neurodivergent Spectrum About This Episode In this Deep Dive interview, AI-generated hosts Alex and Storm explore a paradigm-shifting question: Is blindness a form of neurodivergence? This interview was compiled and generated […]
A blog about blindness, sexuality, and living fully in a body and mind worth celebrating. This blog is my corner of the internet—a space where I get to show up whole. I write from the academic to the personal, from lived experience to professional insight, always with the goal of unpacking shame, challenging stigma, and […]
By Laura Millar, MPH, MA, MCHES I’m sharing this NPR news report by Katherine Kokal, published at WUWM Milwaukee’s NPR, titled “‘A lifeline’ lost: Trump admin cuts program for WI students who are deaf and blind.” It covers Wisconsin’s deafblind program losing federal funding, and I need to talk about something I’ve been hearing throughout […]