Reviewed by Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri Most of the reading I did over the past 20-plus years was academic in nature, necessary for the completion of my college degree. When I read such literature, my mind would automatically shift to an analytical process informed by an academic lens, an experience to which I had become accustomed and… Continue Reading Spoon Knife 6: Rest Stop (eds. B. Martin Allen and J. S. Allen)
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Volume 17, Issue 1 – Summer 2023
Editor’s Note / Content Warning: Some difficult subjects herein, including references and allusions to racism, transphobia, ableism, misogyny, classism, death, mourning, and loss. Welcome to the Summer 2023 issue of Wordgathering. Incredibly, this issue is the first of two in Volume 17 (!). We have now begun our biannual publication schedule, having switched this year… Continue Reading Volume 17, Issue 1 – Summer 2023
Volume 16, Issue 4 – Winter 2022
Welcome to the Winter 2022 (given the timing, really 2022-2023…) issue of Wordgathering—Volume 16, Issue 4 (aka Issue 64). As Editor-in-Chief, I am grateful for ongoing and outstanding collaborative support from my esteemed colleagues at Syracuse University, Patrick Williams and Steve Kuusisto. Thanks, too, to Dr. Kate Deibel for behind-the-scenes creative labors to ensure and… Continue Reading Volume 16, Issue 4 – Winter 2022
Poetry – Fall 2022
Poetry in this issue: John Finnegan, Liminality of Therapy Waiting Rooms Diane Klammer, Sciatica Pawel Markiweicz, in the bewitched aviary Cameron Morse, Dumbed Down Abdulrazaq Salihu, Is there Shame in Belonging to an Unsafe Home? Brett Stuckel, Soundtest; Wish; Catalogue DS Stymeist, Traces Roy Wahlberg, Fireflies Diane R. Wiener, Silo Rachael A. Zubal-Ruggieri, Micro Mutant… Continue Reading Poetry – Fall 2022
Disability and the Sociological Imagination (Allison C. Carey)
Reviewed by Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri This book is meant to serve as the “first true undergraduate text” for teaching the sociology of disability (Sage Publications Inc.), and the relevance of such a text is that the author, Allison Carey, interweaves theory, methodology, terminology, and more with “bodies of knowledge”—particularly Disabled and Crip knowledge. Carey frames this… Continue Reading Disability and the Sociological Imagination (Allison C. Carey)
Volume 16, Issue 3 – Fall 2022
Welcome to the Fall 2022 issue of Wordgathering—Volume 16, Issue 3 (aka Issue 63). As Editor-in-Chief, I am grateful for ongoing and outstanding collaborative support from my esteemed colleagues at Syracuse University, Patrick Williams and Steve Kuusisto. Thanks, too, to Dr. Kate Deibel for behind-the-scenes creative labors to ensure and advance Wordgathering‘s accessibility and impact.… Continue Reading Volume 16, Issue 3 – Fall 2022
Poetry – Summer 2022
Poetry in this issue: Latif Askia Ba, Tonton Abdou Ona Gritz, Today I’ve Been Declared a Dancer Marjorie Sadin, At Sea Nancy Scott, Spirit Chime; Smoke Hannah Siden, Bed-bound Actress Dreams Big; Neuroplasticity & Rainstorms; What the Sunlight Can Be DS Stymeist, Midsummer Disjunction I, V, VIII, IX Roy Wahlberg, Terrible Beauty Ann E. Wallace,… Continue Reading Poetry – Summer 2022
Volume 16, Issue 2 – Summer 2022
Content Warning: This issue “preamble” includes content on ableism, sanism, racism, misogyny, transphobia, classism, poverty, abortion access, healthcare and reproductive rights, gun violence, dis-ease and life-threatening illnesses, death, loss and grief, war, and climate change, as well as other themes that may be distressing to or for some readers. Welcome to the Summer 2022 issue… Continue Reading Volume 16, Issue 2 – Summer 2022
Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities (Nick Walker)
Reviewed by Rachael Zubal-Ruggieri Content Warnings: Discussion of murder and violence, use of the R-Word. Neuroqueer Heresies collects essays, blog posts, and other foundational works by Dr. Nick Walker. As indicated by the subtitle, the book is divided into three parts: “The Neurodiversity Paradigm,” “Autistic Empowerment,” and “Postnormal Possibilities.” Walker has written introductions or prefaces… Continue Reading Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities (Nick Walker)
Poetry – Spring 2022
Poetry in this issue: Steph Amir, Two little COVID kids Dmitry Blizniuk, Let’s See…; The Majestic Moment of Sunset Lynne Bronstein, The Aspie Girl’s Love Song Donna Dunlop, Walking Raye Hendrix, From a Dark Place Waking Jeffrey G. Howard, Spina Bifida Princess; A Cosmic Handoff Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, a forest; a column of factories Judith Krum,… Continue Reading Poetry – Spring 2022