The LAMN Blog

Hi! I'm Mandi, the Queer Christian Disabled host of Beyond Beautiful: Disability, Liberation, Love. Beyond Beautiful is my space to share stories, truths, and tools that help us reimagine and build a world where disability, justice and love are at the center. People who have followed my journey for some time may remember when I first started podcasting, I created a podcast called Find Your Beautiful: Life through the Eyes of a Christian Disabled Woman. At the time, that title

Sometimes the greatest act of courage is simply being yourself. People will always question who you are, or worse, make assumptions based on their own reality or their ignorance. Never feel obligated to build your home on someone else’s toxic land. Those who truly love you will never need an explanation. Those committed to misunderstanding you were never looking for one. For many of us, especially those of us in the disability community, the world teaches us early to shrink,