From the Book - [Paperback edition]
Introduction / by Alice Wong --
Poem: I promise you / John Lee Clark --
Unspooling / Nicole Lee Schroeder --
Rosasharon teaches me to breathe: on animals, disabilities, and intimacies / Ada Hubrig --
The last walk / Melissa Hung --
My journey to motherhood: a parenting odyssey / Marie E. S. Flores --
To the you that used to be home: an anatomy of a disabled heartbreak / Mia Mingus --
Care during COVID: photo essay on interdependence / Kennedy Healy and Marley Mokentin --
This is my solemn vow / Maria Town --
The exhaustion of pretense and the illusions of care / Khadijah Queen --
The most valuable thing I can teach my kid is how to be lazy / Elliot Kukla --
What getting my first Milwaukee back brace was like / Ingrid Tischer --
Igniting our power by reclaiming intimacy / Ashley Volion and Akemi Nishida --
Primary attachment / Yomi Sachiko Wrong --
Poem: Elegy for a mask mandate / Ellen Samuels --
Part II. Pleasure and desire --
Skin hunger and the taboo of wanting to be touched / s. e. smith --
Know me where it hurts: sex, kink, and cerebral palsy / Carrie Wade --
Staring at curvature / Travis Chi Wing Lau --
republics of desire: disabled lineages of longing / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha --
Strange love via crip with a whip / Robin Wilson-Beattie --
Pleasure is the point: on becoming a pleasure artist / Sami Schalk --
How I'm navigating play parties as a disabled immunocompromised kinkster / Jade T. Perry --
Hi, are you single? / Ryan J. Haddad --
Poem: doppelgänger / Cyrée Jarelle Johnson --
Part III. Creativity and power --
Soa / Pelenakeke Brown --
My journey with beadwork / Sarah A. Young Bear-Brown --
Disabled queer love exists / Tee Franklin --
Letters I never sent / Sejal A. Shah --
"many of whom have never been and are like me and feel alienated by it": access intimacy in archives / Gracen Brilmyer --
Love letter to London / Emilie L. Gossiaux --
Crip ecologies: complicate the conversation to reclaim power / Naomi Ortiz --
Poem: Top secret club abjection / Ashna Ali --
Part IV. Everything and everywhere --
an incantation / Aimi Hamraie --
The leg chapter / Ashley Shew --
First of all, I love you / Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware --
Profoundly together / The Redwoods --
Strange new worlds and other love languages / Marieke Nijkamp --
Crip class / Gabrielle Peters --
A tale of three hospitals / Jaipreet Virdi --
Dreaming of black disability doulas: an imagining / Moya Bailey --
Thirteen considerations of the holy bug / Claude Olson.
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