Blog: Sexitis Pigmentosa
I’m Laura Millar. This blog brings together my professional work and lived experience as a blind person.
I write about public health, sexuality, disability justice, consent, and everyday life, with room for curiosity, difficult questions, and humor.
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What Public Health Can Learn from Disability Justice
Blind community changed how I understood myself and my work in public health. In this lecture for Indiana University students, I explore ableism, access, autonomy, and what disability justice can teach our classrooms, clinics, and…
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Our Lives Cannot Wait: California’s Rehabilitation Waitlist and Blind Community Advocacy
California’s rehabilitation waitlist affects education, employment, health, and daily life. Watch our September 14 fireside conversation about Order of Selection, learn from blind advocates, and find ways to take action and support NFB of California.
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Love Is Blind: A Blind Sexologist on Attraction, Flirting, and Consent
Netflix’s Love Is Blind asks whether love can survive the reveal. As a blind sexologist, my question starts earlier: how do I know someone is interested if I cannot see them looking at me from…
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When Ableism Becomes Policy: The Public Health Cost of Delayed Rehabilitation
Two DOR applications, no response, inaccessible government forms, and why disability service delays are a public health emergency. This post has three parts: the problem, my letter to Governor Newsom, and why I wrote it…
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Stop Touching Blind People. A blind public health professional is done being gentle about it.
Blind people are grabbed, steered, and redirected by strangers every single day, without consent. A blind public health professional explains why uninvited touch is a consent violation, what it actually does to us, and the…
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LightHouse as Community Health Infrastructure: A Health Promotion Blueprint for Belonging, Blind-Positive Culture and Blind-Led Community Resilience
LightHouse is not only a provider of services to blind and low vision people, LightHouse is community health infrastructure. Its social model, blind-positive culture, community relationships, leadership pathways, and anti-ableism work are health promotion in…