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The Bent Hourglass: Living in Crip Time
You go to the doctor and hope rises like a balloon. Maybe an answer, a prognosis, a treatment. Something to work with. But instead, only more tests, more theories, more maybes, more versions of try...
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On Seeing Myself: Representation and Ryan O’Connell’s Special
Navigating my workplace with a disability looks like this: A coworker introduces himself by asking if I’m injured. I explain that I just came out walking funny, but not to worry because I’m here...
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Exploration and Connection: A Conversation with Oliver de la Paz
Parents, especially of younger children, are probably familiar with autism screening questionnaires, one of the pile of forms thrust into our hands during regular checkups at the pediatrician’s office,...
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This Huge, Colossal Joy: A Conversation with Molly McCully Brown and Susannah...
I first heard about Molly McCully Brown’s work from a writer-friend last fall, after a year of much injury and illness. “You should interview her,” my friend told me. “She writes a lot about bodies and...
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We Stand with the People
Dear readers, We have been and will always be committed to the work of Black, PoC, women, LGBTQIA+, disabled, and all marginalized peoples. It is with a heavy heart that we have seen the current...
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On Shapeshifting and Surrender: A Conversation with Abi Palmer
Abi Palmer didn’t know she was writing a book when she started Sanatorium. Having received a grant from Arts Council England to explore what it means to be a disabled artist, Palmer traveled to a...
View ArticleThe Complex Disability Representation We Need: Rebekah Taussig’s Sitting Pretty
I often go into reading work by fellow disabled writers with hesitancy and high expectations, probably in part because of how few disability narratives I had access to growing up, and thus how much is...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Amy Mackelden and Dr. Dylan Jaggard
There has never been a greater need to hear directly from chronically ill and disabled people. Even before COVID-19 changed the reality we live in for the short term, we were fighting off the...
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Fighting the Weightiness of Metaphors: A Conversation with M. Leona Godin
So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from hence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things...
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Facing Her Truth: A Conversation with Ariel Henley
Although A Face for Picasso: Coming of Age with Crouzon Syndrome, published yesterday by FSG for Young Readers, the debut memoir by Ariel Henley, is ostensibly targeted toward young adults, the truths...
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