Disability Visibility Book Circle

Helloooo! I can’t believe it’s been 13 days since the launch of DISABILITY VISIBILITY. It’s been gratifying and fun seeing the responses from the public.

The same day my book came out on June 30th, I announced the participants in the DISABILITY VISIBILITY Book Circle.

[Image description: Graphic with a border with various circles of refracted light in pastel yellow, green, blue, and pink. In the center, black text that reads: Disability Visibility Book Circle Kay Ulanday Barrett • Ellen Chang • torrin greathouse Porochista Khakpour • Robert Kingett • Raymond Luczak • J. Albert Mann • Amber McDowell Lateef McLeod • John Poehler • H. M. PSYCHOSOCIAL • Sejal Shah • Maxfield Sparrow]

The coronavirus pandemic has changed everyone’s lives. It is a privilege to have a book published and yet the pressure to promote can be incredibly difficult and inaccessible for many disabled writers at the best of times but especially now.

With book tours and launches delayed or postponed, the Disability Visibility Book Circle gave one-time grants of $1000 for 13 disabled writers in the US who already have books published this year or plan to have books published in 2020 through June 30, 2021:

• Kay Ulanday Barrett
• Ellen Chang
• torrin greathouse
• Porochista Khakpour
• Robert Kingett
• Raymond Luczak
• J. Albert Mann
• Amber McDowell
• Lateef McLeod
• John Poehler
• H. M. PSYCHOSOCIAL
• Sejal Shah
• Maxfield Sparrow

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!

For more about these writers and their books: https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/book-circle/