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Tag: accessibility

My six-month post-op X-ray. Check out that artificial hip!

1 year since surgery

It’s been one year since my hip replacement. Time is a weird, fluid thing. It feels like it’s only been a few […]

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April 1, 2026April 10, 2026
Flooding in Angyalföld, Budapest, Budapest in 2013. Photo by Joost (formerly habeebee).

‘Nothing About Us Without Us’: Disability Justice is Climate Justice

I’m one little person. That’s partly a pun, because I have dwarfism and am quite short. And partly a play on words […]

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July 15, 2021April 10, 2026
DC Public Library’s Podcast logo, with a microphone

Interviewed on DC Public Library’s Podcast

When Jenny Cavallero, a D.C.-based comedian, writer, filmmaker, actor, and disabled person, approached me about being interviewed for DCPL’s Access This podcast, […]

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June 15, 2021April 10, 2026

AWP 2018: Poet hugs, caucusing, and make AWP accessible

So, this little thing called AWP happened. It’s already flown by, and what a whirlwind it was. AWP is jam-packed with so […]

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March 31, 2018March 30, 2018

How to make your literary magazine more inclusive

After having this important conversation at AWP 2017 on how to make writing communities more inclusive to all of us, I decided […]

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October 17, 2017April 22, 2026
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