MonthApril 2022

Graphic with a dark blue background with a screenshot from Publisher's Marketplace with the following announcement on April 13, 2022 under the non-fiction/anthology category: Editor of DISABILITY VISIBILITY and author of the forthcoming memoir YEAR OF THE TIGER Alice Wong ed.'s DISABILITY INTIMACY, an anthology of writing that dives into the rich and varied intimate relationships of people in the disabled community to Anna Kaufman at Vintage, by Julia Kardon at HG Literary (world English).

Posted April 15, 2022 DVP News and Events

DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

The cat is out of the bag! My follow-up anthology to DISABILITY VISIBILITY will be DISABILITY INTIMACY, a collection of writing about the relationships, communities, and intimacies of disabled people, … Continue Reading DISABILITY INTIMACY: New anthology edited by Alice Wong

Graphic with a black background featuring a photo of Thomas Reid, a brown skin Black man with a clean-shaven bald head and full neat beard, smiles into the camera. He wears dark shades and a black and white checkered button up shirt.

Posted April 12, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy Thomas Reid When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, the world changed … Continue Reading Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy

Graphic with a teal background featuring a photo is of Anna, a white nonbinary person with shoulder-length blond hair, standing in front of a beige wall. They wear a muted orange shirt.

Posted April 10, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore: It feels like I am seeing a guy stick his head into an alligator’s mouth … Continue Reading Two years into the pandemic, I’m not sure if I can trust nondisabled people anymore

Graphic with a sky blue background featuring a photo in the center of Jocelyn Mondragon. A Mexican woman with curly short black hair, smiling straight at the camera. In front of an orange painted brick wall, Jocelyn is wearing a beige corduroy jacket with a blue and yellow checkered sweater underneath. A black and white striped strap is across her shoulder.

Posted April 1, 2022 Guest Blog Posts

We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No

We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No Jocelyn Mondragon-Rosas Spoiler alert: I will be discussing the whole film, characters, and storyline from the Disney film Encanto. … Continue Reading We Don’t Talk About Generational Trauma, No, No