I wrote this article last year for the Spoonie Authors Network, with quotes from Derek Newman-Stille, Dianna Gunn, and C.L. Carey. Because it’s July, and Disability Pride Month has begun, I thought it made sense to repost it!

Why We Need Disability Pride Month

Cait Gordon is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction writer and anthology editor who advocates for disability, mental health, and neurodiversity representation in written works. She is the author of Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! and the co-editor (with Talia C. Johnson) of the Nothing Without Us and Nothing Without Us Too disability fiction anthologies. Cait also the host of The Disabled Crone podcast. She is autistic, disabled, and queer, and really loves cake.