Me: No. That's not interesting at all b/c my ideal audience is disabled writers & readers, so that's just like gross.
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: ............
Me: No. That's not interesting at all b/c my ideal audience is disabled writers & readers, so that's just like gross.
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.
How many total poets? Ok I stopped counting at 100.
How many disabled poets? Oh boy. Are you ready.
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
1 disabled writer who is only disabled in her books. Her books are like "yeah I'm totally dis." However--