Editor asks me: Will you review That Pandemic Antho?
I say: Maybe. There are a lot of disabled writers in it, right?
Editor: ............
I say: Like, obviously?
Editor: ............
[After a while] Editor: Wouldn't it still be interesting if there were NOT a lot disabled writers in it? Your review could be about that?
Me: No. That's not interesting at all b/c my ideal audience is disabled writers & readers, so that's just like gross.
[I really did say "that's just gross" lol]
Editor: Lemme send you the TOC.
Me: Okay.
Meanwhile, I'm impatient so I just look up the antho b/c it's Big and Famous and Everywhere.
Here's what The Pandemic Anthology published by @AAKnopf looks like. Now remember: disabled people are the most affected by the pandemic, eg we die the most.
How many total poets? Ok I stopped counting at 100.
How many disabled poets? Oh boy. Are you ready.
1 radical disabled activist. Name spelled incorrectly in the TOC
1 not radical at all disabled writer. Most acceptable disabled writer to nondisabled literary establishment b/c this writer "doesn't make a big deal about it," as I have been told