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

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

[Left] Book cover with a white background and black text that reads: Goodbye, again. Essays, reflections & Illuminations. At the bottom black text that reads: Jonny Sun author of everyone’s a aliebn, when ur a aliebn too. Above the word ‘Sun’ is a small, delicate green leaf from a pothos plant. [Right] Jonny Sun, a young Chinese Canadian man with short black hair wearing an orange crewneck shirt. He is looking upward at the sky pensively. There is a deep blue background behind him. Photo credit: Rozette Rago

Posted June 6, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Jonny Sun

Jonny Sun is someone I followed on Twitter for a while and I really appreciate his work and observations about life. Jonny’s latest book, Goodbye, again, gave me so much … Continue Reading Q&A with Jonny Sun

Screenshot from a piece from Publisher's Weekly. On the left is a photo of Alice Wong, wearing a gray sweatshirt with a tiger, she has a mask over her nose attached to a tube. She is in a wheelchair and wearing bright red lipstick. Behind her are bamboo trees. Photo credit: Eddie Hernandez Photography. On the right, text: Wong Memoir Goes to Vintage, Activist and consultant Alice Wong sold a memoir, Year of the Tiger, to Anna Kaufman at Vintage in a world English rights agreement. Vintage said the book is a “mosaic memoir” that charts the author’s life and work as an activist through an array of visual and prose forms, including photos, essays, artwork, and horoscopes. Wong, who founded the Disability Visibility Project (an online forum that aims to amplify the voices of those in the disabled community), also edited the anthology Disability Visibility, which Vintage published last year. She was represented by Julia Kardon at HG Literary. Year of the Tiger is slated for 2022.

Posted February 16, 2021 DVP News and Events

Year of the Tiger: New book in 2022!

I am delighted to share that I will be coming out with a new book next year, Year of the Tiger, published by Vintage Books. The title refers to the … Continue Reading Year of the Tiger: New book in 2022!

[left] A photo of Jamison Hill, a young white man with an almost clean-shaven head with expressive blue eyes. He is looking away from the camera, slightly to the right and wearing a light blue, long-sleeved button down shirt. He is smiling. [right] Light blue book cover with white text that reads, WHEN FORCE MEETS FATE. In the middle is an image of a hospital ID bracelet with text, “A mission to solve an invisible illness.” At the top, “A riveting true-life story” - AJ Baime, New York Times bestselling author of The Arsenal of Democracy. At the bottom: JAMISON HILL, Foreword by Stephanie Land, New York Times bestselling author of Maid.

Posted January 24, 2021 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Jamison Hill

Jamison Hill is a contributor to my anthology, Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage Books) and I was delighted to interview him about his new memoir which … Continue Reading Q&A with Jamison Hill

A brown round queer with glasses and short spiky hair performs at a microphone in front of the rainbow and transgender flags. They smile holding a microphone with their hand outstretched.

Posted March 29, 2020 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Kay Ulanday Barrett

Editor’s note: Below is an interview with Kay Ulanday Barrett, someone I admired for a long time from afar about a new book of poetry by Kay, More Than Organs, available … Continue Reading Q&A with Kay Ulanday Barrett

Book cover is of a woman of color's face with symbols and compass overlay. Title reads: The Labyrinth's Archivist: A Broken Cities Novella by Day Al-Mohamed

Posted November 13, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Day Al-Mohamed on fantasy and queer disabled representation

Below is an interview with Day Al-Mohamed, author of The Labyrinth’s Archivist: A Broken Cities Novella (2019). You can hear more from Day in a 2018 episode of the Disability … Continue Reading Q&A with Day Al-Mohamed on fantasy and queer disabled representation

Posted September 3, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Q&A with Haben Girma on her new memoir

I’ve known Haben Girma for years and got to record her oral history for the DVP in 2015. I was delighted to interview her again about her new memoir, Haben: … Continue Reading Q&A with Haben Girma on her new memoir

Nina G, a young white Italian American woman with long brown hair and a short-sleeved red dress smiling and holding a microphone.

Posted August 11, 2019 Uncategorized

Ep 57: Disabled Writers

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/FINAL_EP_57.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSS Today’s episode is with Nina G, a comedian, professional speaker, … Continue Reading Ep 57: Disabled Writers

Picture is of Frances sitting in her wheelchair; smiling, wearing a black top and her blonde hair down.

Posted July 31, 2019 DVP Blog Posts and Essays

Austerity & Disabled People in the UK: Q&A with Frances Ryan

Tell me a little about yourself! Frances: I’m a journalist and wheelchair user based in Nottingham, England. I write a weekly column for the U.K. Guardian, typically about disability, poverty, … Continue Reading Austerity & Disabled People in the UK: Q&A with Frances Ryan

[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

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/53_Ep_53_FINAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSSToday’s episode is features a conversation with two disabled editors and … Continue Reading Ep 53: Disabled Editors

Posted February 10, 2019 Podcast

Ep 44: Disabled Writers with Carly Findlay

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Black woman with black hair and black glasses is wearing a white shirt and smiling in front of a green flowered wall. Photo credit: Reid Beels

Posted December 16, 2018 Podcast

Ep 40: Disabled Writers with Keah Brown

https://media.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/content.blubrry.com/disability_visibility/Final_Ep_40.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Email | RSSToday’s episode is about disabled writers with Keah Brown, journalist, freelance … Continue Reading Ep 40: Disabled Writers with Keah Brown

Graphic with a white background and an illustration of a stack of 3 books on the right and a typewriter on the left. In black text: #CripLit Twitter Chat, Mental Health & Writing, November 18, 2018, 4 pm Pacific/ 5 pm Mountain/ 6 pm Central/ 7 pm Eastern, Guest hosts: @veronikellymars and @sesmith, Details: DisabilityVisibilityProject.com

Posted November 4, 2018 DVP News and Events

11/18 #CripLit Twitter Chat: Writing & Mental Health

You are invited to the fourteenth #CripLit chat co-hosted by novelist Nicola Griffith and Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project® on November 18, 2018, 4 pm Pacific. We are … Continue Reading 11/18 #CripLit Twitter Chat: Writing & Mental Health

Photo of Belo Cipriani and his guide dog, Oslo, a black lab.

Posted October 31, 2018 DVP Blog Posts and Essays