Shining Light Where There Are Shadows: Disability and Intersectionality within Literary Journals
Out of fifteen essays, only one is written by a person of color. Usually, the odds are one in six. Where are the stories of disabled people of color?
Out of fifteen essays, only one is written by a person of color. Usually, the odds are one in six. Where are the stories of disabled people of color?
Clara Bosak-Schroeder (she/they) is a writer and educator at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. You can read Clara’s work in Avidly and later this year in Bellingham Review.
Observation No. 1 The living room smells like Feet
After spending six months at far-off coordinates you return to the place you used to live.
Can perfume lovers and the scent-averse (those with allergies, chemical sensitivities, or just not fans) coexist in shared, public spaces?
No one knows how many words make up the English language. The last printed edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, the world’s largest, has 615,000 entries. That was in 1989.
A thimble on my middle finger, to press the needle through, left hand on the cloth, laid flat on the table, to keep it steady.
