From the Book - First Squares & Rebels Edition.
Introduction : No more inspiration porn / Raymond Luczak --
The politics of pashing / Jax Jacki Brown --
Disability made me do it, or, Modeling for the cause / Kenny Fries --
Eight ways of being disabled in love ; Who killed Frida Kahlo? / Barbara Ruth --
Curvature : learning to stand up straight, or, Growing up sideways / Travis Chi Wing Lau --
All I have is the body ; Meeting Emily ; I chant ; A girl through a hoop of gold / Kristen Ringman --
When love touches me / Sara Ibrahim --
When you saw me ; Don't forget your badge ; That day ; What it means to fall / Mark Ellis --
Outcast : deaf, gay, Christian / Joel Gates --
An incomplete story ; F.U.C.K. / Ashley Volion --
"Can you feel that?" / Andrew Morrison-Gurza --
A prayer for the nonreligious autistic ; I do not want children / Lucas Scheelk --
Prom dresses and popcorn / Monique Flynn --
Hear me out / Allison Fradkin --
How I got disabled / Donna Minkowitz --
Vagina resigning ; Spell for the hairy girl ; Prematurity ; SaraEve's skull ; Advice for the able-bodied poet entering a disability poetics workshop / Liv Mammone --
Missing what you never had : autistic and queer / Kit Mead --
Switch ; Scars ; Perfume of the desert ; Hidden ; Aerial view of the terrain ; Seeing bone ; tenderest of gifts / Arthur Durkee --
Deaf:Gay / Christopher Dempsey --
Torch ; He called me bear / Michael Russell --
The worst, most faithful friend / Nola Weber --
Body language ; Dressing the wound ; Beauty and variations / Kenny Fries --
Twenty-seven Nadines / Kristen Ringman --
The use of blindness in the text ; Shadowland / Marika Prokosh --
Love me, love my ostomy / Tak Hallus --
Flashback, porchlight, and rivers / Cyrée Jarelle Johnson --
They called it mercy / Jason T. Ingram --
Invisible within the ten percent / Maverick Smith --
Charité / Quintan Ana Wikswo --
The changeling / David Cummer --
Our son is a beautiful girl / Carl Wayne Denney --
Perspectiva ; With all due respect / Travis Chi Wing Lau --
Learning the words / Toranse Lowell --
On inheritance / Whittier Strong --
Hands ; Fellowship ; Scene ; Bent / James Schwartz --
The ides of April / Barbara Ruth --
lapse / The Poet Spiel --
The caretaker / Mark Ellis --
Necessary action ; Dreaming awake ; Night swimming / John R. Killacky --
A deaf sapiosexual's reflections / Beatrice Hale --
Love at first sight ; Mind's eye ; Blind porn ; If I were a boy ; A pulp fiction ; Want / Kathi Wolfe --
A collection of thorns / D. Allen --
Ancient pauses / Christopher Dempsey --
A girl for us / John Whittier Treat --
On what I didn't hear you say / Meg Day --
Gracious pain / Brenna Cyr --
Almost solstice / Stephanie Heit & Petra Kuppers --
The worst husband you can imagine / Larry Connolly --
My first kill ; Savages / Raymond Luczak --
How not to plan disability conferences, (or, How to be an ableist asswipe while planning a disablity conference) / Lydia Brown --
How much can you hear? ; What is the worth of my life? ; No longer an impossible dream / Donna Williams --
Learning to fall in love / Katharina Love --
Intersections ; I want to go down ; Unbend you straight ; Unrequited love (from my wheelchair to a shopping trolley) / Jax Jacki Brown --
Hands that work / Zak Plum.