Anthologies
Edited by Camisha L. Jones, Michael Northen, Naomi Ortiz and Travis Chi Wing Lau
“This vital gathering of creative and critical works returns to the essential questions, practices, and affirmations that were initiated with Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability. With this anthology the circle is widened, bringing a stunning array of intersectional writing that celebrates the essential stories from the community about love, grief, beauty, anger, and survival while also advocating for what is just and what is necessary. The works within challenge expectation and rejoice in possibility. The work of the creators and makers collected in this volume is absolutely essential in these times.” —Oliver de la Paz, author of The Diaspora Sonnets
“Expansive, full of beauty and surprises. The profound impact which Disability Poetics has on literature is clear throughout this anthology, which continues and diversifies the work of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability.” —Kenny Fries, award-winning author of In the Province of the Gods and curator of the Disability Poetics video series
“Most of us have long avoided the truth so plainly and beautifully shared in the essays and poems inside Every Place on the Map is Disabled. Put simply, most of us will one day be disabled. To avoid this truth is to forfeit the power, intimacy, fear, and fortitude so expertly rendered by these authors. If every place on the map is indeed disabled, I offer a deep bow to the complex and divine cartography of this book.” —Sonya Renee Taylor, author of The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love
Poems and Essays by Ortiz can be found in the following Anthologies:
Resistance & Hope, Essays by Disabled People, Crip Wisdom for the People, Edited by Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project
Edited by Kara Dorris
Book Details
Rituals for Climate Change
A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice
Punctum books, Imprint: 3Ecologies Books
by Naomi Ortiz
OUT NOW (Published 8.15.23)
Disability justice and ecojustice rarely are spoken in the same mouthful but are in constant conversation in our world. This mixed-genre manuscript of poetry and lyrical essay doesn’t contain just one point of view but encompasses dialectical perspectives which often exist in contradiction to each other. A disabled person is in need of plastic cups and concerned about the overwhelming plastic in our ecosystems. Rituals for Climate Change: A Crip Struggle for Ecojustice expands on and complicates who is seen as an environmentalist and what being in relationship with the land can look like.
This book is an offering to explore the spiritual question of how to witness. It serves as a companion to those also grappling with the difficult questions posed by climate change in the borderlands. By exploring the ways body, mind, and cultures both clash with and long for ecojustice, Rituals for Climate Change offers an often-overlooked perspective on climate-grief, interdependence, and resilience. Disabled people know how to adapt to a world that is ever changing without considering us.
Sustaining Spirit
Self-Care for Social Justice
A 2018 Southwest Book of the Year
An uncomfortable question activists ask when we step back and examine our lives:
“Will burnout destroy me as an effective, productive advocate?
How can I change the world when I’m too tired to change my socks?”
In times of dangerous uncertainty, as Brené Brown says, “vulnerability is our most accurate measure of courage.” We face messy, contradictory intersections where we must regain our footing and somehow take care of ourselves in the midst of struggling for a better world.