You belong here.
Access should not require a disabled person to audition for dignity, prove that they are tired enough, or apologize for the body they arrived in.
From where I’m sitting
Field Notes
What the room looks like when you stop assuming every body moves through it the same way.
Lived experience and operational analysis from Kesha Moore, DES—an event strategist, accessibility advocate, and big, Black, disabled event professional who has spent decades inside the rooms she is now asking the industry to examine differently.
This is not inspiration. It is a systems report.
Field Notes is where lived experience meets event operations. The stories may begin with a scooter, a hotel room, a buffet, an airplane aisle, a ballroom, a transportation plan, or a sentence like “it’s just a short walk.”
But the point is not the story by itself. The point is what the story reveals about ownership, planning, hospitality, safety, dignity, handoffs, assumptions, and who ends up carrying the cost when accessibility is not operationalized.
I do not write from “poor me.” I write from “here is what happens when the system meets an actual human body.”
The lens
Three things I keep coming back to
Give me the information. Let me decide.
“Accessible,” “nearby,” and “short walk” are judgments. Distance, terrain, seating, route details, timing, and available support are information.
The bill always comes due.
When accessibility is treated as optional, the cost does not disappear. It gets transferred—to the participant, the staff, the schedule, the reputation, or the emergency.
What you will find here
Not a one-size-fits-all disability conversation. Field Notes follows the intersections that change what access, risk, hospitality, and participation actually feel like in the room.
From Where I’m Sitting
Lived experience, without the inspiration-porn filter.
Mobility, pain, travel, hotel rooms, transportation, receptions, food, airports, fatigue, help, independence, and the difference between being accommodated and actually being able to participate.
Systems That Hold
What the experience tells us about the operation.
Routes, handoffs, vendors, staffing, emergency planning, change control, communication, verification, duty of care, and the little decisions that become somebody else’s big problem onsite.
Every Body Means Every Body
Intersectionality belongs in the operations conversation.
Disability does not erase race, body size, gender, age, culture, class, or the assumptions people carry about who belongs in a room. Access cannot be designed as though it does.
Published Field Notes
Start with what the operation is quietly asking somebody’s body to absorb.
Each Field Note starts with lived experience and follows the operational question underneath it.
Published
Short Walk for Whom?
What sounds like a simple distance can become an access barrier when nobody stops to ask whose body the plan was built around.
Still in the notebook
More Field Notes are taking shape.
Field note in development
My Body Is Not an Apology. Your Emergency Plan Still Has to Work for It.
Body size, mobility equipment, evacuation, equipment capacities, improvised assistance, and why the person’s body should never be treated as the emergency-planning failure.
Field note in development
I Was an Event Planner Before I Became Disabled.
What years of experience still did not teach me to notice—and why “you don’t know what you don’t know” cannot become permission to stop asking.
Field note in development
The Event Looked Successful. My Body Paid the Bill Tomorrow.
Pain masking, cumulative fatigue, hustle culture, recovery, and why the run of show may reset at midnight even when the participant’s body does not.
The standard
You do not have to know everything. You do have to ask, listen, and follow through. Don’t pretend.
Accessibility is not a performance of certainty. It is a practice of noticing, asking better questions, sharing the planning load, and making sure the information survives the handoff.
Everybody has to mean every body.
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