disability pride month: on celebrating disability as diversity, and centering the needs of disabled folks

If you’re sensitive or prone to over-stimulation (like me!), thinking about giving birth in a standard hospital room with what I can only describe as oppressive overhead (typically fluorescent) lighting, does not induce a sense of safety. Lots of folks come to community birth out of a desire for a less medical-feeling, and more sensory-sensitive setting for one of the most intense moments of their lives.