Many in the disability community are tired of under-representation. s.e. smith, with co-partners Alice Wong and Vilissa Thompson, set up Disabledwriters.com, a resource to help editors connect with disabled writers and journalists, and journalists connect with disabled sources.
Read moreThis latest trailer looks fabulous! In addition to all the essential tropes of great fantasy—swords and ponies! dragons and seers! queens and kings!—we now have an important and powerful character in a wheelchair.
Read moreBitch. Cripple. Dyke. Only some people can get away with using these words—and only sometimes, and in certain circumstances.
Read moreTo celebrate a special issue of The Deaf Poets Society, “Crips in Space,” we’ll hold a #CripLit Twitter chat on Thursday 11 May 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern.
Read moreThe Storify of Sunday’s #CripLit chat on YA/KidLit is up. That means we now have seven chats archived.
Read moreThe Storify of the #CripLit Crip Futurism chat is up. Here’s a version of what I said rendered in paragraph form.
Read moreI’ve been off social media for nearly two weeks in order to write a novella, working title So Lucky. It is CripLit.
Read moreFor our fifth #Criplit chat for disabled writers we’re trying a slightly different format. We’ve invited editors and staff from some of…
Read moreWe are writers. We must write. We must use hard and honest words. Not ‘alt-right’ but white supremacist. Not ‘religious exception’ but homophobic hate. Not ‘thoughtless’ but ableist. Call it what it is. A writer’s job is to tell her truth, loud and clear.
Read moreJust republishing this for future reference. First published in Literary Hub, August 23, 2016 Recently I have read several articles about disabled…
Read moreThe Disability Visibility Project™ (DVP) is a community partnership with StoryCorps and an online community dedicated to recording, amplifying, and sharing disability stories and culture. Support the DVP on Patreon.
Read moreThe third #CripLit chat is up on Storify.
Read moreThe third #CripLit Twitter chat, on Disabled Writers, Diverse Literature, and Intersectionality, is scheduled for Wednesday, 12 October, 4 pm Pacific/7 pm Eastern.Co-hosts me and Alice Wong. Guest host Alaina Leary. You don’t want to miss this one!
Read moreThe Storify of the second #CripLit Twitter chat, on Ableism and the Publishing Industry is up. Here are my answers to the 10 questions formulated ahead of time.
Read moreEmpathy is no match for experience. Empathy is unreliable. Empathy is not enough. Here are some guidelines instead.
Read moreThe inaugural #CripLit Twitter chat was a success. It’s archived on Storify.
Read moreOn Friday May 13 I gave a presentation at the University of Washington’s Pacific & Western Disability Symposium. The theme of this…
Read moreThis is my first appearance where I not only talk about and read from my work but discuss the impact of disability on that work. Expect readings focused on the body and its full-sensory physical delights…
Read moreI’ve never hidden the fact that I have MS but today I’m coming out as a cripple—claiming my identity as disabled.
Read moreThose who advocate for themselves or their own group are penalised. Allies are not.
Read moreEvery now and again I come across a project I really want to support. Here’s one: Accessing the Future, an SF anthology…
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A bio of novelist Nicola Griffith, author of Hild, the Aud novels, and Ammonite, plus written, audio, and video interviews.
Read moreUsing lame as a derogatory term is as dangerous and ill-considered as using the term gay in the same context. I know. I’m both: I’m a dyke and I have MS. I walk with elbow crutches. I am, literally, lame.
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