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A collection of 11 posts

A fat brown-skinned and a smaller brown-skinned person, both with short curly hair, looking lovingly at each other.

The Fragility of Body Positivity

How a radical movement lost its way.

A Southeast Asian person and a Black person, both visually impaired, sit at a table cluttered with art supplies as they paint figurines.

Love Sick

It's time to uncouple care work from romantic love.

Bad (White) Moms Dominate Christmas Movies

Bad (White) Moms Dominate Christmas Movies

It's Christmas movie season. Why do so many feature bad moms?

Photo illustration: A Black disabled dancer with her wheelchair gesturing toward the sky and the text "now my dreams of dance are filled with BIPOC disabled bodies."

Honoring Alice Wong: Reprinting Bitch Magazine's Access Series

Alice Wong, who reshaped the world of disability media, joined our ancestors on November 14, 2025. The Flytrap is proud to reprint her curated Access Series for Bitch Magazine.

Illustration in hues of purple and green: A Black girl with natural hair sitting in a wheelchair, holding up a sparkling star.

Let Freedom Reign

A roundtable about disabled Black girl magic.

Illustration of a magazine featuring images of adaptive fashion. The names of the people who designed the clothes have been scratched out.

Beyond Functional

Unraveling the long line of disability fashion.

Two dark-skinned people looking at a screen with three characters. One is a Sikh man, the other is a light-skinned redhead, and the third has close-cropped textured hair and big earrings.

In Living Color

Audio description looks past people of color.

Disabled people saying "but what about..." and listing social issues such as marriage inequality and police killings while a blonde white woman screams at them from inside a phone.

Language Wars

Conversations about language were supposed to be a starting point rather than an ending one.

Diptych illustration: A dark-skinned disabled person working on a laptop in bed, and another working at a desk. Dollar bills float around them.

The Complex Future of Post-Pandemic Work

The COVID-19 pandemic showed that remote work is possible for many industries, but it’s still unclear what the future of remote work is five years later.

Image celebrating Scarleteen at 20 with a wreath of sex toys and safer sex supplies: In Sex Ed We Trust: Inclusive, Comprehensive, Supportive, Innovative.

Red Letter Day

The enduring legacy of Scarleteen, the internet’s best sex-ed site.

A colorful FlytrapxBitch graphic featuring an old-school desktop computer.

Fake It Off

Reddit’s r/Illnessfakers community exposes not con artists, but the politics of disbelief.