{"id":495471,"date":"2023-12-03T10:38:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T18:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/?p=495471"},"modified":"2026-02-12T17:18:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T01:18:39","slug":"disability-intimacy-upcoming-anthology-edited-by-alice-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disabilityvisibilityproject.com\/2023\/12\/03\/disability-intimacy-upcoming-anthology-edited-by-alice-wong\/","title":{"rendered":"Disability Intimacy: Upcoming Anthology Edited by Alice Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone, it\u2019s been some year, huh? At least it has been for me. I moved into my first place, adopted two cats, Bert and Ernie, co-edited <\/span>Low and Slow<\/span><\/a>, a series of food writing by disabled people in partnership with Eater, published and edited several <\/span>guest essays for the Disability Visibility Project<\/span><\/a>, and had a few other secret hijinks. I cannot believe it\u2019s been a little over a year since the <\/span>most difficult experience of my life<\/span><\/a> and am still in the process of adjusting and resting. A labor of love I have been working on is my second anthology, Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire<\/a>, available April 30, 2024 by Vintage Books.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have the means, I hope you will consider pre-ordering it or sharing this post with folks you know.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Stay safe and well and see you soon!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Alice<\/span><\/p>\n

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Digital portrait by Jen White-Johnson. An Asian American woman with a tracheostomy and a tube attached to her throat in a wheelchair. She is wearing a bright red lip color and a blue cardigan. On the left is her cat Bert, a brown tabby, and to her right is Ernie, an orange cat. Behind them is a pink background with a round halo enveloping them. There are curly stylized red and orange clouds in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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From Kirkus Review<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

The book, which the author organizes partially around the central value of \u201ctenderness,\u201d delves into topics such as love, creativity, care, and power, all while treating intimacy as a vast and multifaceted concept that can be applied to individuals just as easily as collectives. The contributions include a photo essay about care work, a poem about kissing, and a hybrid essay about \u201cBondage, Domination \/ Discipline, Service \/ Submission, Sadism and Masochism,\u201d also known as BDSM. Alongside these formally inventive approaches, other writers examine nontraditional subjects of intimacy, including, among others, a disabled pet and \u201ca contraption called a Milwaukee back brace.\u201d Just like Wong\u2019s introduction, which includes both a confession about her romantic history and a gloriously poetic description of her sexual desire, most contributions are intensely confessional, inviting readers into the writers\u2019 lives with radical, compassionate love and encouraging them to rethink their traditional views of everything from sex to love to care\u2026A poignant anthology about ability and intimacy that espouses a gorgeously original worldview.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Contributors<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Ashna Ali<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moya Bailey<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gracen Brilmyer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pelenakeke Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Lee Clark<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marie E. S. Flores<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tee Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emilie L. Gossiaux<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ryan J. Haddad<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aimi Hamraie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ada Hubrig<\/strong><\/p>\n

Melissa Hung<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cyr\u00e9e Jarelle Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elliot Kukla<\/strong><\/p>\n

Travis Chi Wing Lau<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mia Mingus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marieke Nijkamp<\/strong><\/p>\n

Claude Olson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Naomi Ortiz<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jade T. Perry<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gabrielle Peters<\/strong><\/p>\n

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha<\/strong><\/p>\n

Khadijah Queen<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Redwoods<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ellen Samuels<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sami Schalk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nicole Lee Schroeder\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sejal A. Shah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ashley Shew<\/strong><\/p>\n

s.e. smith\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ingrid Tischer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maria Town<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jaipreet Virdi<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ashley Volion and Akemi Nishida<\/strong><\/p>\n

Carrie Wade<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin Wilson-Beattie<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yomi Sachiko Wrong\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sarah A. Young Bear-Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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