Inspirational people possess a unique blend of qualities that set them apart from the rest. They not only excel in their own lives but also uplift those around them through their genuine actions and ...

In 2014, disabled Australian disability activist Stella Young gave a TED Talk titled, “I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much.” It has become an essential text of disability culture, and a ...

Lidia celebrates with some of the inspirational people she met, making her latest special. As with her other specials, Lidia Celebrates America: Overcoming the Odds culminates with a gesture of food – ...

Telling a disabled person they are “inspiring” is a “microaggression”, an NHS trust has claimed. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has warned doctors not to put “people in broad ...

Disability can be difficult to talk about sensitively because of how embedded ableism is in our language, biases and perceptions of disability. Conversations about disability are slowly increasing, ...

There's something magical about diving deep into how extraordinary people actually lived their daily lives. Not the sanitized highlight reel you see in most biographies, but the real stuff. The ...

On the first page of his book Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg features a poem by Ruth Bebermeyer with the memorable line: "Words are windows, or they’re walls." If we stop for a moment ...