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echolalia echolalia

echolalia echolalia
An expressionist-realist painting of a person with buzzed hair and yellow skin, wearing a grey-white smock, fighting/eating a bright orange snake in a lush dark green, maroon, orange growth/jungle; the forest floor is a dark green and the sky is a pale pink-lavender. The person's mouth is open and they are barefoot. Above the person in a snaky S wiggle are the words "echolalia echolalia" in bolded white serif font and the words "jane shi" in regular white serif font.

I enjoy amplifying the work of disabled writers and I especially enjoy collaborating with them. Since last December Jane Shi, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, and I partnered in a project called Crips for eSims for Gaza which sounds exactly what it says where we raised over a million dollars USD. Jane Shi also wrote several guest blog posts for the Disability Visibility Project, "When the Poem is a Spreadsheet: Joining Crips for eSims for Gaza in #ConnectingGaza," "What Will Never Be Again," and "Reimagining the Autistic Mother Tongue." I'm thrilled to offer 3 paperbacks or e-books of her debut poetry collection echoalia, echoalia published Bricks Books to anyone in the US or Canada. Details below.

An expressionist-realist painting of a person with buzzed hair and yellow skin, wearing a grey-white smock, fighting/eating a bright orange snake in a lush dark green, maroon, orange growth/jungle; the forest floor is a dark green and the sky is a pale pink-lavender. The person's mouth is open and they are barefoot. Above the person in a snaky S wiggle are the words "echolalia echolalia" in bolded white serif font and the words "jane shi" in regular white serif font. "snake eater" (2021) by Jia Sung.

About the book

Relentlessly inventive poetry that proclaims a diasporic, queer, and disabled self-hood. In Jane Shi’s echolalia echolalia, commitment and comedy work together to critique ongoing inequities, dehumanizing ideologies, and the body politic. Here are playful and transformative narratives of friendship and estrangement, survival and self-forgiveness. Writing against inherited violence and scarcity-producing colonial projects, Shi expresses a deep belief in one’s chosen family, love and justice.
A double exposure photograph, wherein two images are faded onto one another in a single image, of a person sitting at her desk on a black office chair. The person has pale tan skin, with her eyes closed, wearing brown and black glasses and short black hair that slightly flares at the end with rounded bangs like a bowl. In one exposure her face is larger and closer to the camera; there are lights directly behind her. In the other, she is sitting on a black office chair and holding a sliced open half of a pomegranate. Behind her is a round, moon-like light. The desk behind her is a medium orange-brown and contains a head shelf, with books ordered in red, black, white, and the rest of the rainbow ordered on the top of the table. There’s a small brown monkey plushie near the left end of the desk. There’s a black and white ink illustration above the orange to blue books on top of the desk where there’s an open space. Photo credit: Divya Kaur (Instagram: @soft.kaur)

About the author

Jane Shi lives on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Her writing has appeared in the Disability Visibility Blog, Briarpatch Magazine, The Offing, and Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press), among others. Jane is an alumnus of Tin House Summer Workshop, The Writer’s Studio Online at Simon Fraser University, and StoryStudio Chicago. She is the winner of The Capilano Review‘s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest and the author of the chapbook Leaving Chang’e on Read (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022). She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated.

Details

1) Any disabled person in the US or Canada is eligible to receive an e-book or paperback. You do not need to disclose any details about your disability.

If you already received a book from one of my previous giveaways, please consider letting other people have a chance.

2) If you do not receive a reply that means the books have been claimed or you did not include all the required information.

3) Send an email to DisabilityVisibilityProject@gmail.com with 'Jane Shi Giveaway’ in the title of the message. Do not reply to this post!!

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  • First and last name
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