No Cure Necessary
At The Establishment, Mariah Ramsawakh discusses the damaging, unrealistic “miraculous cure” trope often found when the media portrays characters with disabilities: People with disabilities are tired...
View ArticleHow to Write about the Disabled
Do not assume that empathy equals experience. Writing outside your personal experience is always a tricky thing, and writing about disabled people when you yourself are not disabled is an especially...
View ArticleDedicate Your No-Trump Vote: Robin Black
DedicateYourNoTrumpVote.com is home to a growing collection of voters who are thinking beyond the individual and dedicating their votes as acts of hope for the future. This brand new website includes a...
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The Future of Body Horror: Can Our Art Keep up with Our Suffering?
x. You see, what we’re talkin’ about here is an organism that imitates other life-forms, and it imitates ‘em perfectly. –Dr. Blair, The Thing John Carpenter’s The Thing opens with the desolation of...
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Being Human: A Conversation with Porochista Khakpour
The first time I ever heard of Porochista Khakpour was when I stumbled upon her GoFundMe page in 2012. At the time, the author had just been diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease and had, she wrote,...
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Death, Doorways, and Dance
The bright morning light startled me. My husband had already left for work. The baby monitor was quiet. My six-month-old son had never slept this late. I tiptoed into the hallway, cringing every time...
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A Place for Magic, a Place for Joy: Talking with Keah Brown
Keah Brown’s debut collection of personal essays, The Pretty One, is subtitled “On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me,”and though many of her essays are inflected...
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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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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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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...
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No Story Ever Really Ends: Talking with Amy Long
I found Amy Long on Instagram four years ago. I first read Codependence on my iPad in a flurry; I wanted to get as much of it into my head as quickly as possible. Long’s writing doesn’t just tell a...
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Queen of That Universe
The calmness of the café is undoubtedly my own. I know there must exist the etching squeals of the espresso machine, over and over. The rumbling crescendo of fizzle as it pushes out its final drops....
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 Poetry Book Club Chat with torrin greathouse
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club chats with torrin greathouse about her new collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound (Milkweed Editions, December 2020), inventing forms, revenge poems, how the pandemic...
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The Space Between Vertebrae
Pain is like vinegar: noxious at first whiff then startlingly ephemeral, evaporating to leave no mark on memory. I have done battle with uncomfortable seats at parties and concerts, in airplanes and...
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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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