TagDisabled Editors

$Graphic with a leaf green background. Left: A white woman with short hair and an occluded cataract on her right eye wearing purple hearing aids and a pearl necklace, looking with raised eyebrows at camera between trees. Photo credit: Lis Mitchell, 2021. Right: Cover image of Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson. From the letter “I” in “BEING,” the color of Elsa’s cataract refracts in a rainbow-colored prismatic effect over a dark background. “Deafblind” is emphasized with light.$

Posted October 24, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Elsa Sjunneson

Congratulations on your first memoir, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, available October 26, 2021 from Simon and Schuster! How are you feeling right now in … Continue Reading Q&A with Elsa Sjunneson

Graphic with a white border and a pale blue-green background. On the left is ‘2020’ in stylized numerals with 20 20 stacked on top of each other. On the right in orange-red, ‘YEAR I REVIEW’ below in smaller text in dark blue, ‘DISABILITY VISIBILITY PROJECT’

Posted December 27, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

DVP 2020: Year in Review

Hello comrades! I looked at my 2019 year in review and it felt like those events occurred eons ago. 2020 has been ROUGH for people all over the world. We … Continue Reading DVP 2020: Year in Review

Posted August 23, 2020 Podcast

Ep 84: Anthologies

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/84_Ep_84_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS Today’s episode is all about anthologies with Kelly Jensen, a … Continue Reading Ep 84: Anthologies

Graphic with a background of overlapping triangles in bright colors with text: Available now! In the middle is an image of a book titled ‘Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century Edited by Alice Wong’ the book cover has overlapping triangles in a variety of bright colors with black text overlaying them and an off-white background. Book cover by Madeline Partner.

Posted June 30, 2020 DVP News and Events

Available now! Disability Visibility anthology

Hey friends! I made a thing and now it’s out in the world today. My anthology, Disability Visibility: First Person Stories from the 21st Century (Vintage Books, June 30, 2020), … Continue Reading Available now! Disability Visibility anthology

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Posted October 6, 2019 Podcast

Ep 61: Poetry

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[left] A black and white picture of Dominik, a white man with slightly curly brown hair, a dark pinch, and a piercing over the right eyebrow. He is wearing a cardigan over a black shirt. [right] A photo of Elsa Sjunneson-Henry, a caucasian woman with long red hair, wears glasses which she is looking over. One eye is hazel, the other is a white occuluded cataract. She wears a teal sweater, pink collared shirt, and a smile that says "you want me to write words for you, right?"

Posted June 16, 2019 Podcast

Ep 53: Disabled Editors

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Posted October 31, 2018 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Interview with Belo Cipriani

This is an interview with Belo Cipriani, the editor and publisher of a new anthology featuring coming-of-age stories by disabled writers. Congratulations on the recent publication of Firsts: Coming of … Continue Reading Interview with Belo Cipriani

graphic with a white background. On the left is an illustration of a typewriter in black. On the right side are the words: DISABLED WRITERS in black. Below in smaller font in red: disabledwriters.com @DisabledWriters. Below that in larger black font: Increasing disability in journalism one connection at a time.

Posted July 5, 2017 DVP News and Events

DisabledWriters.com: Increasing disability diversity in journalism

The Disability Visibility Project® is all about pushing the status quo in media and journalism. One example is our partnership with novelist Nicola Griffith in #CripLit, a series of Twitter chats … Continue Reading DisabledWriters.com: Increasing disability diversity in journalism

Image description: graphic with a yellow background with the following text in black: “#CripLit Twitter Chat, Publishing Online: "Crips in Space" Special Issue, May 11, 2017, 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern, Hosts: @DisVisibility @nicolaz Guest hosts: @ChaiKovsky @thedeafpoets” On the upper left corner is an illustration of a green planet with a yellow ring around it against a blue circular background with white stars. On the upper right corner is an illustration of a green space shuttle rocketing up with a yellow moon and white clouds against a blue circular background.

Posted May 4, 20171 Comment DVP News and Events

5/11 #CripLit Chat: “Crips in Space” Special Issue

#CripLit Twitter Chat Publishing Online: “Crips in Space” Special Issue Thursday, May 11, 2017 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern You are invited to the eighth #CripLit chat co-hosted … Continue Reading 5/11 #CripLit Chat: “Crips in Space” Special Issue

Image description: graphic with a yellow background. In black text: "#CripLit Twitter Chat, Young Adult/KidLit, April 9, 2017 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern, Guest hosts: @PunkinOnWheels @swingingstorm from @DisabilityInLit." On the left side of the graphic is an illustration of a open book in dark blue. On the right side of the graphic is an illustration of a large pencil in orange with dark blue lines.

Posted March 29, 20171 Comment DVP News and Events

4/9 #CripLit Chat: Disability & YA/KidLit

#CripLit Twitter Chat Disability & Young Adult/KidLit Sunday, April 9, 2017 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern You are invited to the seventh #CripLit chat co-hosted by novelist Nicola Griffith … Continue Reading 4/9 #CripLit Chat: Disability & YA/KidLit

Posted January 6, 20173 Comments DVP News and Events

1/15: #CripLit Chat – Editor Roundtable

#CripLit Twitter Chat: Editor Roundtable Sunday, January 15, 2017, 4 pm Pacific/ 7 pm Eastern Co-Hosts: Nicola Griffith @Nicolaz and Alice Wong @DisVisibility Guests: Editors and staff from Autonomous Press, Barking Sycamores, Breath … Continue Reading 1/15: #CripLit Chat – Editor Roundtable