Mailbag

The Disability Debrief “mailbag” is where we share reader responses and reactions to recent editions of the newsletter.

Did a line from a personal essay make you laugh? Could you relate to another writer’s experience? Did our lens on a topic open conversations for you?

Get in touch and share your view! Tell us how a recent Debrief made you think, cry or take action, and you might find your response in the next Mailbag.

Mailbag editions

Ability to reimagine ourselves

An open call for science fiction, breathing together, and more from the mailbag

24 Sep 2025

A digital illustration depicting a futuristic city, with cars and wheelchairs flying in front of tall buildings.

Lots of proteins

Questions of activism, priests using wheelchairs, and more from the mailbag

18 Jun 2025

Illustration of a globe with arms and legs, wearing big headphones, and scrolling a tablet.

Hands once joined

Impacts of aid freeze, education insights, and more from the mailbag

12 Mar 2025

Maintain grassroots authenticity

Challenges of leadership renewal and other insights from the mailbag

09 Oct 2024

A thousand welcomes

Protests from Kenya, accessing God, and much more from the mailbag

03 Jul 2024

No ifs, no buts, no maybes

Remembering Sir Robert Martin, the language of disability, and more

08 May 2024

Finding our future

The crisis at IDA, hierarchies, poetry, and more

20 Mar 2024

Taking the side of humanity

Reactions to Israel-Gaza coverage, disability advocacy and more

15 Nov 2023

Heroes and victims

Mailbag edition on changing culture, belonging, love and much more

27 Sep 2023

Protesting the protestors

Segregation in France, Paralympic Games and the sickness in our work

28 Jun 2023