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Kidlit writer + freelance essayist. #HamlineMFAC alumna. 👩🏼‍🦽. All views and fangirl tweets are my own. She/her rep: @patricianels https://t.co/8bGBI8sxu9
Apr 10, 2018 10 tweets 2 min read
I want to share my thoughts on what it means to me, as a disabled woman in her twenties, to see Tammy Duckworth be the first sitting Senator to give birth (thread) 1/ I use a wheelchair. When I was in college, I went to my friend's 2nd-grade classroom for a day, and one of the students asked me if I had kids. Before I could say "no," or "not yet," another kid ssh'd him and said, "People in wheelchairs can't be moms!" 2/