In this episode, Alyssa and Vanessa discuss Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From The Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong (Vintage).

Essays Discussed:

“The Erasure of Indigenous People in Chronic Illness” by Jen Deerinwater

CN: Settler colonialism, genocide, racism, sexism, ableism, erasure, sexual assault, violence, suicide, suicidal ideation

“While You Are Waiting to Be Healed” by June Eric-Udorie 

“The Isolation of Being Deaf in Prison” by Jeremy Woody 

CN: Sexual assault, language deprivation, isolation, incarceration, trauma, audism

“Common Cyborg” by Jillian Weise 

CN: Hate, misogyny, harassment, rape threats, death threats, racis, suicide, sterilization, ableism, eugenics

“How to Make a Paper Crane from Rage” by Elsa Sjunneson

“Why My Novel Is Dedicated to My Disabled Friend Maddy” by A. H. Reaume

“So. Not. Broken.” by Alice Sheppard

"The Beauty of Spaces Created for and by Disabled People" by s.e. smith

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dearlitpod

Media Mentioned:

Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, edited by Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael García (Mad Creek Books)

She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor)

“I Needed to Know if My Favorite Books Were Products of Cultural Appropriation” by Cindy Fazzi (Electric Literature)

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Tor)