I sat on the bathroom floor, dizzy and nauseated, picturing the stage where I would give a reading the next day. Months ago, in a more optimistic moment, I had agreed to perform in a public reading ...

I’m a person who stutters. I’m also a cantor in the Conservative movement. My Jewish and stuttering identities feel increasingly intertwined, as both are related to the experience of time. As a person ...

I just defended my master thesis successfully. But the process of preparing the presentation for me was not so simple. It took one day for me to prepare the presentation and more than one week for ...

Stuttering is not what most people think it is. It’s not just getting stuck on words or having a hard time saying a sentence. There is a hidden part to it. A good analogy is an iceberg. The top part ...

I can’t say my own name without stuttering. It’s perhaps the most common and cruelest joke played on the nearly 300,000 Texans—about 1 percent of the population—who live with this speech impediment, ...

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When I saw Brayden Harrington, the 13-year-old from New Hampshire, stutter openly and authentically on national television, I saw myself, a version of myself I wish I had been at Brayden’s age. At 13, ...

I firmly oppose the idea that art is competitive, and I deplore all back-slapping, self-congratulatory awards shows without exception, so I firmly oppose the idea that art is competitive, and I ...

The president’s campaign recently claimed on X that former President and presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, in mocking Biden’s delivery of his State of the Union address, was actually mocking Biden ...

Every time I watch Joe Biden speak, I cringe. Fragmented phrases. Trouble starting sentences. Weird ticks. Strange words and abrupt catch phrases. It's not because I'm sad to see one of the country's ...