{"id":472290,"date":"2020-06-30T02:25:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T09:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?p=472290"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:19:24","slug":"disability-visibility-book-circle-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2020\/06\/30\/disability-visibility-book-circle-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Visibility Book Circle 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_472226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-472226\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"472226\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/book-circle\/disability-visibility-book-circle-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Disability-Visibility-Book-Circle-1.png?fit=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,512\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Disability Visibility Book Circle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Graphic with a border with various circles of refracted light in pastel yellow, green, blue, and pink.\u00a0In the center, black text that reads: Disability Visibility Book Circle Kay Ulanday Barrett \u2022 Ellen Chang \u2022  torrin greathouse  Porochista Khakpour \u2022 Robert Kingett&lt;br \/&gt;\nRaymond Luczak \u2022  J. Albert Mann \u2022 Amber McDowell Lateef McLeod \u2022 John Poehler \u2022 H. M. PSYCHOSOCIAL   Sejal Shah \u2022 Maxfield Sparrow&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Disability-Visibility-Book-Circle-1.png?fit=1024%2C512&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-472226 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Disability-Visibility-Book-Circle-1.png?resize=1024%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Graphic with a border with various circles of refracted light in pastel yellow, green, blue, and pink.\u00a0In the center, black text that reads: Disability Visibility Book Circle Kay Ulanday Barrett \u2022 Ellen Chang \u2022 torrin greathouse Porochista Khakpour \u2022 Robert Kingett Raymond Luczak \u2022 J. Albert Mann \u2022 Amber McDowell Lateef McLeod \u2022 John Poehler \u2022 H. M. PSYCHOSOCIAL Sejal Shah \u2022 Maxfield Sparrow\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Disability-Visibility-Book-Circle-1.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Disability-Visibility-Book-Circle-1.png?resize=300%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Disability-Visibility-Book-Circle-1.png?resize=768%2C384&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-472226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graphic with a border with various circles of refracted light in pastel yellow, green, blue, and pink.\u00a0In the center, black text that reads: Disability Visibility Book Circle Kay Ulanday Barrett \u2022 Ellen Chang \u2022 torrin greathouse Porochista Khakpour \u2022 Robert Kingett<br \/>Raymond Luczak \u2022 J. Albert Mann \u2022 Amber McDowell Lateef McLeod \u2022 John Poehler \u2022 H. M. PSYCHOSOCIAL Sejal Shah \u2022 Maxfield Sparrow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The coronavirus pandemic has changed everyone\u2019s lives. It is a privilege to have a book published and yet the pressure to promote can be <a href=\"https:\/\/openspace.sfmoma.org\/2020\/05\/there-is-no-one-way\/\">incredibly difficult and inaccessible<\/a> for many disabled writers at the best of times but especially now. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With book tours and launches delayed or postponed, the <strong>Disability Visibility Book Circle<\/strong> gave <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2020\/04\/06\/disability-visibility-book-circle-call-for-submissions\/\">one-time grants of $1000<\/a> for 13 disabled writers in the US <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who already have books published this year or plan to have books published in 2020 through June 30, 2021:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kay Ulanday Barrett<\/li>\n<li>Ellen Chang<\/li>\n<li>torrin greathouse<\/li>\n<li>Porochista Khakpour<\/li>\n<li>Robert Kingett<\/li>\n<li>Raymond Luczak<\/li>\n<li>J. Albert Mann<\/li>\n<li>Amber McDowell<\/li>\n<li>Lateef McLeod<\/li>\n<li>John Poehler<\/li>\n<li>H. M. PSYCHOSOCIAL<\/li>\n<li>Sejal Shah<\/li>\n<li>Maxfield Sparrow<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The express purpose of this money is for writers to organize their own book event via video conference with captioning and ASL interpreters. Congratulations to these writers! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more about these writers and their books: <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/book-circle\/\">https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/book-circle\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The coronavirus pandemic has changed everyone\u2019s lives. It is a privilege to have a book published and yet the pressure to promote can be incredibly difficult and inaccessible for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2020\/06\/30\/disability-visibility-book-circle-2020\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disability Visibility Book Circle 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":472226,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[548705971],"tags":[3471,41325585,59743616,58990044,106167760,587152863,291871,3330,587152910],"class_list":["post-472290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvp-news-and-events","tag-accessibility","tag-accessible-events","tag-deaf-writers","tag-disability-representation","tag-disabled-writers","tag-online-events","tag-online-publishing","tag-publishing","tag-self-publishing","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Disability-Visibility-Book-Circle-1.png?fit=1024%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4H7t1-1YRA","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}