Disability in LIS journal

Interview with Alex Brown on Hidden Napa Valley JJ Pionke interviews Alex Brown about their book The Hidden History of Napa Valley, Luddism and information literacy in a high school setting, their work doing book reviews and sensitivity reading, an...

JJ Pionke interviews @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social about their book The Hidden History of Napa Valley, Luddism and information literacy in a high school setting, their work doing book reviews and sensitivity reading, and why we keep fighting for progress.

Interview with Dr. Mimi Khúc on dear elia JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Mimi Khúc about her books dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss and Open in Emergency, how she deliberately incorporated care into her teaching during the chaotic e...

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Mimi Khúc about her books dear elia and Open in Emergency, how she incorporated care into her teaching during the chaotic early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the process and purpose of creating a tarot deck rooted in Asian American culture.

Our unpredictable posting schedule remains unpredictable, but in the upcoming weeks you can look forward to new interviews featuring Mimi Khúc, Alex Brown, James & Lucy Catchpole, and Sami Schalk!

Interview with Dr. Nnedi Okorafor on Death of the Author JJ Pionke interviews Nnedi Okorafor about her books Death of the Author, Space Cat, and LaGuardia. They talk about the challenges of explaining disability, the lack of age diversity in books, the magi...

JJ interviews @nnedi.bsky.social on her books Death of the Author, Space Cat, and LaGuardia. They talk about the challenges of explaining disability, the lack of age diversity in books, the magic of the creative process, and cats.

[Audio recording and transcript available]

DisLIS interview with Alice Wong on Disability Visibility DisLIS editors interview Alice Wong about her disability advocacy and creative process.

Latest interview is now up! DisLIS editors interview Alice Wong about her disability advocacy and creative process.

Interview with Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan on Nearly Roadkill: Queer Love on the Run JJ Pionke interviews Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan about their new book, the Nearly Roadkill Reboot, how their writing process has changed since they wrote the original in the mid-1990s, their t...

Interview with Kate Bornstein and Caitlin Sullivan on Nearly Roadkill: Queer Love on the Run

DisLIS interview with Marieke Nijkamp on Splinter & Ash JJ Pionke interviews Marieke Nijkamp about their books, focusing on the Splinter & Ash series. The interview also includes discussion about how creating art is an act of hope and why disability and ge...

JJ Pionke interviews Marieke Nijkamp about their books, focusing on the Splinter & Ash series. The interview also includes discussion about how creating art is an act of hope and why disability and gender diversity representation is so important.

Letter from the Editor v2 2025 updates from the editor of DisLIS.

Call for submissions - We are now open to academic articles, notes from the field (briefer and less formal than full articles), and creative works!

cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...

All reviews and articles receive peer review and copy editing by someone with disability expertise, whether that expertise is gained through lived experience and/or academic study.

We focus on the experiences of library or archive workers or users, or people who work with libraries in other ways, in relation to disability.

We take a disability positive, disability centered approach. (You don't have to love your condition, but you do have to value disabled people.)

Our publishing focus is to center the experience of disability within information work in a variety of settings including but not limited to K-12 schools; LIS programs; public, academic, special, or other types of libraries or archives +

Letter from the Editor v2 2025 updates from the editor of DisLIS.

Call for submissions - We are now open to academic articles, notes from the field (briefer and less formal than full articles), and creative works!

cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...

Oral History with Christine Moeller Oral history with Christine Moeller, who talks about working as an academic librarian, transitioning to a doctoral program, and their research on neurodivergent library workers.

Oral history with @christinemmoe.bsky.social who talks about working as an academic librarian, transitioning to a doctoral program, and their research on neurodivergent library workers.

"it does a real disservice to our nuance as complete human beings to suggest that all of our thoughts + feelings about ourselves, our community, our world can be summarized, condensed into language that everyone will understand immediately....our lives are complex, our writing can also be complex. "

Interview with Dr. J. Logan Smilges on Crip Negativity JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Dr. J. Logan Smilges about their book Crip Negativity, discussing why disabled people deserve to have our lives theorized – how theory can work against simplisti...

We interview J. Logan Smilges about their book Crip Negativity, discussing why disabled people deserve to have our lives theorized – how theory can work against simplistic stereotypes to better reflect the nuanced + complicated reality of our lives & the importance of building capacious communities.

Interview with  Dr. Rachel M. Thomas on Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Rachel Thomas about her book Shrink, cultural and medical ideas about fatness, and her next planned graphic narratives.

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Rachel Thomas about her book Shrink, cultural and medical ideas about fatness, and her next planned graphic narratives.

Two new interviews coming out back-to-back this week!

Rachel Thomas talks about her graphic memoir Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl

J. Logan Smilges talks about their book Crip Negativity

Interview with Dr. Travis Lau on What's Left is Tender JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Dr. Travis Chi Wing Lau about his new chapbook What’s Left is Tender, poetic form, bringing a disability ethic to slow scholarship, and taiko drumming for pain m...

JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview @travisclau.bsky.social about his new chapbook What’s Left is Tender, poetic form, bringing a disability ethic to slow scholarship, and taiko drumming for pain management.

#CripLib

Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions [book review] Committed is a nuanced history of the Canton Indian Insane Asylum.

new review:

Committed is a nuanced history of the Canton Indian Insane Asylum.

Shrink: Story of a Fat Girl [book review] Armed with research, personal experience, and stunning art, Rachel M. Thomas shows readers the experience of being a fat woman and how society regularly views, fears, and tries to control fat bodies.

new review:

Armed with research, personal experience, and stunning art, Rachel M. Thomas shows readers the experience of being a fat woman and how society regularly views, fears, and tries to control fat bodies.

"a critical part of our Mad creation practice was centering need, bodymind need, and creating a culture where we could ask and name the things that we would've otherwise suppressed+ white knuckled through... a space where that didn't have to happen, that violence didn't have to happen anymore."

Interview with Melanie Jones and Shayda Kafai on Mad Scholars JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Melanie Jones and Dr. Shayda Kafai about their new book Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, rethinking the publishing process, who influenced th...

JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Melanie Jones and Dr. Shayda Kafai about their new book Mad Scholars: Reclaiming and Reimagining the Neurodiverse Academy, rethinking the publishing process, who influenced their work, and building sustainable Mad communities.

Interview with Paul Castle on Adoroscopes JJ Pionke interviews Paul Castle about his book Adoroscopes and his creative process as a visual artist who has a degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa.

JJ Pionke interviews Paul Castle about his book Adoroscopes and his creative process as a visual artist who has a degenerative eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa.

Letter from the Editor v2 2025 updates from the editor of DisLIS.

We are now open for even more submissions!

In addition to book reviews, we will now also be publishing academic articles and Notes from the Field (less formal, more blog) about library/archives work and disability

cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/vol2/...

author interview series (so far!)

1) Margaret Price on Crip Spacetime
2) Maria Sweeney on Brittle Joints
3) Nicola Griffith on Spear
4) Colleen S. Harris on Toothache in the Bone
5) Shayda Kafai on Crip Kinship
6) Ashley Shew on Against Technoableism

cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/dislis/

Interview with Dr. Ashley Shew on Against Technoableism JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Ashley Shew about her book Against Technoableism, during which they discuss creativity and generative AI, technology tools that disabled people actually want versus what they'...

Our most recent interview: JJ talks with @ashleyshoo.bsky.social about Against Technoableism, creativity and generative AI, technology tools that disabled people actually want versus what they're told to want, and why everyone needs a shower chair.

[audio and transcript available for download]

Interview with Dr. Nicola Griffith on Spear JJ Pionke interviews Dr. Nicola Griffith about her book Spear, writing with disability, and the $41,000 bathtub.

In this episode of the DisLIS Interview with an Author series, @jjpionke.bsky.social interviews @nicolaz.bsky.social about her book Spear, writing with disability, and the $41,000 bathtub.

[audio and transcript available for download]

Interview with Dr. Margaret Price on Crip Spacetime DisLIS journal editors JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Dr. Margaret Price about her book Crip Spacetime, her writing process, what the phrase crip spacetime means and how it affects academics w...

Our first interview in the DisLIS Interview with an Author series features @margaretprice.bsky.social talking with us about her book Crip Spacetime, what the phrase crip spacetime means, and how it affects academics with disability

[audio and text available for download]

"the act of creating art and writing stories, especially as disabled Mad folks, [is a] really powerful act of agency and crafting ourselves outside of the stories that ableism, sanism, transphobia, racism, etc etc, have said about our bodyminds and what our worth is and what we can and cannot do."

Interview with Dr. Shayda Kafai on Crip Kinship JJ Pionke and Jess Schomberg interview Shayda Kafai about her book Crip Kinship, how to improve the peer review process to be care-full, and the importance of art and creative works.

Fresh off the bepresses - @jjpionke.bsky.social and @schomj.bsky.social interview Crip Kinship author Shayda Kafai!

[downloadable audio and transcript]

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