#ad I’ve already found my person but spaces like @dateabilityapp still matter so much to me🤍
It’s the only dating app built by and for the disabled and chronically ill communities. A space where you don’t have to explain. yourself before the first date and however you define connection, you truly belong✨
Download Dateability in both Apple or Android App Store, and match with your person!
#blind #interabledcouple #disability #dating
This past weekend, we hosted our second Dancing with Dateability event at the @nycballet ! 🩰
The adaptive workshop led by the incredible @harrison_coll_ & @seginator allowed participants to freely express themselves through dance and movement in the iconic rehearsal studios at the New York City Ballet.
Following the workshop, we all attended the performance where we watched some of the gorgeous choreography we had just learned. (Who danced it better? We will never tell… 😝)
It was a magical day of connection, learning, and art appreciation.
Huge shoutout to @popupbagels who gifted us a delicious assortment of bagels and schmear! 🥯
To the @nycballet , we 🩷 you! Thank you for making dance accessible and inclusive!
#NYCBallet #NYCBEducation #NYCBAccess
[Alt Text Slide 1: A group of diverse people in a NYCB dance studio. Everyone is posing with a dance move. Text says, “Dancing with Dateability: The New York City Ballet.”
Slide 2: A PopUp Bagels box in front of a Lincoln Center sign that says, “Dancing with Dateability.” Text says, “Disabled Dating App + NYC Ballet + PopUp Bagels = the perfect throuple.”
Slide 3: Harrison Coll and Kristen Segib, two NYCB dancers, sitting in the dance studio hosting a Q+A.
Slide 4: A clip showing the group dancing to the choreography led by the dancers.
Slide 5: The Dateability founders, Alexa and Jacqueline, standing on the stage in Lincoln Center with NYCB dancer, Harrison Coll, standing between them.]
@castellanos_house_of_music has been serving the musical needs of Staten Island for 32 years!
We couldn’t be more grateful here at @constructivepartnerships for their incredible donation of a brand new guitar to our third installment of Together We Shine, an inclusive open mic fundraiser, hosted at @flagshipbrewery , returning June 18, 2026.
Community is everything, and we love ours.
Get your tickets to Together We Shine 3 today, and visit Castellano’s House of Music to get a lesson, buy an instrument, or simply enjoy a chat with Laine and the amazing staff there 💚🤘
*Together We Shine is an open mic fundraiser series that aims to bridge the gap in accessibility to the arts for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). All proceeds from the events go to programs and services provided to the I/DD community.
TWS 3 is presented in partnership with @communityresourcesstatenisland , featuring @graceofny
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I recently learned about @dateabilityapp , the only dating app for (and created by) the disabled and chronically ill communities. Jeez, I wish something like @dateabilityapp had existed when I was single!
Why? Dating as a disabled person can often feel like you’re a measly minnow, swimming against a powerful rushing river current, and all the other fish are big and powerful and leave you in their bubble trails as they easily and joyously frolic upstream. But also the river is made of fire wherever you are swimming. And also there are one thousand bears craving minnow for dinner standing in the river.
For real, though, my experiences as a young disabled adult in the big scary world of dating were pretty abysmal, and 99% of the time it was because new people got so hung up on my wheelchair that they didn’t bother to get to know me. (The other 1% was the time I took a girl to Panera on a first date and accidentally burped twice while eating my French onion soup.)
Today, one of the most common questions I get from disabled folks is how to get started in the dating game in a world that’s so deeply ableist and inaccessible. My usual response is that it’s going to suck but you have to push through the suck and you’ll have opportunities to meet incredible people. But since learning about @dateabilityapp , that will no longer be my reply.
@dateabilityapp is on a mission to make love accessible to all. Sisters Jacqueline and Alexa Child founded it after Jacqueline, who is disabled due to chronic illness, faced discrimination on mainstream dating apps. Their app, which offers paid and free versions to ensure accessibility, is an inclusive space where more than 70 million US adults with disabilities, as well as nondisabled people, can connect, be seen, and find love.
Check my link in bio to learn more! #ad
The month of love may be ending… but every month can be a month of love. Especially in the chronic illness community, where love often gets us through the hardest days.
Dating with a neurological condition adds layers: others outside our world might struggle to support disclosure, energy limits, or body-friendly dates. That’s why we partnered with @dateabilityapp , the dating app built for people with disabilities and chronic illness, to share practical tips!!
Swipe our carousel for the mini guide + and some fun Dateability chat examples. Link in bio to read the full blog, learn more about the datebility app, and book an appointment with our neurology specialists.
You deserve both:
🤍 Specialized neurological care
💜 A dating space that gets it
#chronicillness #spoonie #invisibleillness #datingwithchronicillness #DisabilityVisibility
We’re proud to partner with @dateabilityapp , a dating app designed specifically for disabled and chronically ill communities.
In a world where mainstream apps often amplify ableism and fetishisation, Dateability aims to create a safe and affirming space for people with physical, intellectual and psychiatric disabilities to build meaningful, honest connections. 💜
In Season 6 of The Golden Girls, Blanche Devereaux — our satin-loving, man-chasing Southern icon — dates George, a man paralysed from the waist down. And just like that, a sitcom best known for cheesecake and chaos quietly challenged decades of ableist nonsense.
Here’s the reality: disabled people make up roughly 1 in 4 adults in the U.S., yet research from the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative shows disabled characters are drastically underrepresented on television — especially in romantic storylines. We’re rarely positioned as desirable. Rarely complex. Almost never the main love interest.
Then comes Blanche.
What’s clever is that the episode doesn’t pretend prejudice doesn’t exist. Blanche hesitates. She worries about intimacy. She fears judgment — from society and from herself. It’s uncomfortable, but it’s honest. And that honesty is what makes it powerful.
George isn’t reduced to a “teachable moment.” He’s charming, witty, emotionally available. His disability is part of his life, not the punchline. Not the tragedy. Just a fact. For mainstream TV in the late ’80s, that was quietly revolutionary.
The episode gently dismantles the myth that romance is purely physical. Blanche learns that connection, chemistry and vulnerability matter more than mobility. That intimacy isn’t cancelled by a wheelchair. That desire doesn’t disappear because someone’s body works differently.
And honestly? We’re still catching up.
Even now, disabled characters are often framed as inspirational side plots rather than romantic leads. So watching The Golden Girls handle disability and dating with humour, respect and nuance feels both nostalgic and wildly current.
Four older women in Miami were out here doing better representation in shoulder pads than some modern dramas with million-dollar budgets.
Blanche dating George mattered. It still matters. Because disabled people aren’t plot devices — we’re full, complicated, flirtatious human beings with love lives that deserve screen time.
#DisabilityRepresentation #GoldenGirls #DisabledAndDating #MediaRepresentation #inclusivestorytelling
Dating is hard, for everyone. But for people with disabilities and chronic illnesses, there are extra layers of challenges that the individuals need to face.
Questions like “Will this restaurant have wheelchair access?”, “Will I be able to change my stoma bag during the date?” or “Can I take my medication in time?” may arise and cause added stress, anxiety and planning fatigue.
And while there are many (many) dating apps out there, none factor in these nuanced layers, which can lead Disabled swipers to experience bullying and aggressive ableist behaviours.
Dateability (@dateabilityapp ) is trying to solve this. Founded in 2022 by sisters Jacqueline and Alexa Child, the dating app strives to create a safer, more affirming space where Disabled and chronically ill people don’t have to explain, justify or hide parts of themselves in order to be considered “datable.”
Our co-founder Bérénice Magistretti (@berenicemagistretti ) chatted with sisters Jacqeline and Alexa Child about why they created Dateability and how it differs from other dating apps.
🔗 Head to the link in our bio to read the full interview. Press Play at the top to listen to it! ▶️
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#VisibleVoices #Dating #DatingApp #DisabilityVisibility #ValentinesDay
🚨New episode is LIVE!🚨
Love doesn’t require a perfect body.
@dateabilityapp is a dating app designed for people with chronic illness and disabilities; built on inclusivity, community and connection.
Today’s conversation is about being seen, chosen and valued.
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧
#survivingoutofspite #podcast #newepisode #datingapp
Dating while chronically ill can be challenging, to say the least.
As it turns out, there were some pretty amazing people out there who wanted to make the dating world more accessible and inclusive for those who needed it.
And they did it!
Tune into the podcast tomorrow for a special episode with the founders of @dateabilityapp ! #chronicallyill #dating #datingapp #podcast #survivingoutofspite
![This past weekend, we hosted our second Dancing with Dateability event at the @nycballet! The adaptive workshop led by the incredible @harrison_coll_ & @seginator allowed participants to freely express themselves through dance and movement in the iconic rehearsal studios at the New York City Ballet.Following the workshop, we all attended the performance where we watched some of the gorgeous choreography we had just learned. (Who danced it better? We will never tell… )It was a magical day of connection, learning, and art appreciation.Huge shoutout to @popupbagels who gifted us a delicious assortment of bagels and schmear! To the @nycballet, we you! Thank you for making dance accessible and inclusive!#NYCBallet #NYCBEducation #NYCBAccess[Alt Text Slide 1: A group of diverse people in a NYCB dance studio. Everyone is posing with a dance move. Text says, “Dancing with Dateability: The New York City Ballet.”Slide 2: A PopUp Bagels box in front of a Lincoln Center sign that says, “Dancing with Dateability.” Text says, “Disabled Dating App + NYC Ballet + PopUp Bagels = the perfect throuple.”Slide 3: Harrison Coll and Kristen Segib, two NYCB dancers, sitting in the dance studio hosting a Q+A.Slide 4: A clip showing the group dancing to the choreography led by the dancers.Slide 5: The Dateability founders, Alexa and Jacqueline, standing on the stage in Lincoln Center with NYCB dancer, Harrison Coll, standing between them.]](https://sp1.picnob.com/p/pt_25694069651126612626262523407125651126232571_0_fa2d9a36852828db36c5d007eea29e4a.jpg?o=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&h=aaf1db1c99a5c19e10de33db00de79a9)
