Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out on Disability

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When your body-mind is in upheaval, or is deemed troublesome, how do you find a way forward In the shadow of an ecological and social crisis, whose voices do we need to pay attention to The poems, essays and artworks in this groundbreaking anthology answer both these questions at the same time. Written collaboratively and in conversation, they harness rage and grace to speak back to unhealthy, alienating systems and experiences. Both prophetic and celebratory, Raging Grace affirms disability and neurodivergence as unique sources of truth telling, and collaboration as a radical model for collective health.

Featuring:

• Alex Creece
• Andy Jackson
• Angela Costi
• Anna Jacobson
• Beau Windon
• Bron Bateman
• CB Mako
• Esther Ottaway
• Gaele Sobott
• Gemma Mahadeo
• Heather Taylor Johnson
• Jasper Peach
• Jess Kapuscinski-Evans
• Katerina Bryant
• Kerri Shying
• Kit Kavanagh-Ryan
• Leah Robertson
• Michele Saint-Yves
• Rachael Wenona Guy
• Robin M Eames
• Ruby Hillsmith
• Sam Drummond
• Sarah Stivens

'Growing up and coming of age in a time when people talked over us, around us, to everyone but us about what we wanted, this book is thrilling to me. Our voices loud, proud and visceral. Unapologetic, confronting and joyful all at once. This is my tribe traversing the world like a boss.' Gayle Kennedy

'Raging Grace is an exhilarating book for its ideas and its startling writing, and for the vital, beating sense of communality and strength that permeates its pages. It is about identity and experience of being dismissed, overlooked and looked at, and about finding ways joyfully, defiantly and quietly to inhabit an unaccommodating world and its hostile institutions, and finding ways to imagine a kinder future, where the autonomy and expertise of disabled and chronically ill people are respected and understood. The poems and essays are fierce, often exuberant in form, and always surprising full of humour and heartache, as well as grace.' Fiona Wright