Living well with chronic illness, creative writing, books, art and technology
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Some of the most exciting writing from disabled voices can be found in poetry. Betty Doyle, Jamie Hale, and Hannah Hodgson are three disabled poets whose work explores infertility, shielding during the pandemic, and hospitals respectively.
Against Technoableism presents Ashley Shew’s insights into how technology produced for disabled people largely does not include its target audience in the design process at all.
Moving Mountains edited by Louise Kenward brings together voices from across the disabled community to write on the body and being in nature. The anthology includes poetry, essays, and more experimental work.
The uncertainty of living with chronic illness makes it inevitable that there will be points in your life where writing simply is not possible. When you get back to it, returning to your writing routine may not be easy. Here are some tried-and-tested tips on returning to writing in a sustainable way.
Some of Us Just Fall by Polly Atkin is activism for chronic illness patients, beautiful nature writing, and words of solidarity for those living with illness packaged in a book with an absolutely gorgeous cover.
The Perseverance by Raymond Antrobus is a brilliant poetry collection with themes exploring Deafness, the poet's British-Jamaican heritage, and father/son relationships.
Inside/Out is a brilliant portrayal of the lives of American disabled people, using verbatim theatre to build a timeline of social history, written and directed by Ping Chong and Sara Zatz in collaboration with disabled performers.
Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit by Jen Campbell explores themes of folklore, nature, the body, disability, and fertility. Featuring award-winning poems, this poetry collection is not to be missed.
Alice Hattrick’s book of essays, Ill Feelings, examines the history, politics, and sociology of ME/CFS and other "invisible" illnesses.
On Being Ill explores classic works and contemporary voices depicting what it means to be ill and grappling with the complexities of writing about illness.
