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Welcome! Ability Maine is a space for gathering and sharing information about living with disabilities. Our mission is to empower others by providing a useful and up-to-date collection of resources and services. All of our content is generated and/or curated by individuals within Maine’s disability communities.

Breath & Shadow is our quarterly literary journal, one of just a few in the world exclusively written and edited by people living with disabilities!

Navigating the Common Ground Fair with a Physical Disability

For several decades, The Common Ground Fair has been a quirky part of the autumn fair season in Maine. Billed as the largest organic fair...

Hundreds Celebrate Disability Pride Day in Augusta, Paintings of Maine Disability Rights Activists U

Several Hundred people braved very sunny skies and high temperatures to attend the annual “Disability Pride Day” at Capitol Park in Augus...

How The Media Negates The Bipolar Experience

Content Warning: Suicidality, Self-Harm “Everyone’s a little bit bipolar!” As a person with Bipolar II, this remark irks me immensely. ...

Breath & Shadow 2016 Issues Remastered!

Check out all four remastered issues of Volume 13! Winter features: -"Lessons from the Gimp Ghetto" by Heidi Johnson-Wright -"After th...

Breath & Shadow Summer 2018 Issue is Here!

Issue 3 of Volume 15 is now available to read here! This issue features: -"Serpent Mists" by Jim Pennington -"Discovering the Dragon" by ...

Community Blog Launch!

We are happy to announce that Ability Maine is opening up a new community blog, and we want to publish you! We’ll begin accepting submiss...

Senator Blocks Vote to Weaken the ADA and Makes History at Same Time

"Shortly after the Trump Administration took office, Representative Ted Poe, a Texas Republican in the state’s second congressional distr...

Breath & Shadow Spring 2018 Issue is Here!

Issue 2 of Volume 15 is now available to read here! This issue features: -"Lost Self" and "Shadows II" by Casey Clabough -"Pinstripe Suit...

Medical and Recreational Bills, Programs, Still in Limbo

"Since Maine voters passed the referendum to allow adults over the age of 21 to consume Cannabis in 2016, the fate of the nearly twenty y...

Breath & Shadow Winter 2018 Issue is Up!

Issue 1 of Volume 15 is now available to read here! This issue features: -"Sad Single Girl's Titina" by Emma Gorka -"Broken Things" by Sc...

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