The experience of Disabled people and/or people who live with chronic pain is vast, extensive, and incredibly nuanced. Even the umbrella terms used to describe the variances in our community are limiting. Oftentimes, the onus is on the Sick person, the chronically aching, the Disabled person to navigate this world (including the literary and artistic world) in isolation. Here, we hope to examine works that illustrate us within and outside of the tropes of the Disabled Body frequently called upon for inspiration without our work or self-determination at the center.

Edited by Kay Ulanday Barrett