Support underrepresented LGBTQ+ disabled writers.

All donations are tax-deductible through our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas.
Bodies Beloved is community-led through disability justice and mutual aid principles.

“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is—it's to imagine what is possible”
— bell hooks

Upcoming: Bringing LGBTQ+ Disabled Writers to the AWP Literary Conference Bookfair
March 26-29, 2025 I Los Angeles Convention Center

Book Signings + Interactive Community Art Installation

DID YOU KNOW?

There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.
— Audre Lorde

  • LGBTQ+ disabled writers are among the most underfunded in literature, often unable to afford their own books to sell at key events—limiting their economic opportunities.

  • Disabled—including chronically ill and neurodivergent—writers often miss out on book tours and events due to inaccessibility, limiting their ability to reach readers.

  • 1 in 4 households in the U.S. have at least one family member with a disability. Federal underfunding puts people with disabilities at an higher risk of homelessness. 

  • Trans, Black, Indigenous, and undocumented LGBTQ+ disabled writers face the greatest risks and barriers.

Meet the Curators of Bodies Beloved

Julián Jamaica Soto
Author, Spilling the Light
(Skinner House, 2024)
Executive Director, TRUUST (Transgender Religious professional Unitarian Universalists Together)

Anna Goodman Herrick
Author, A Speaker is A Wilderness
(Monkfish, 2024)
Writer, Performer, Filmmaker
(The Emily Dickinson Museum, Netflix,
Oprah Winfrey Network)

  • SPEAK WILD PRESENTS BODIES BELOVED
    CURATORS STATEMENT

    In this time of collective anxiety, uncertainty, erasure, and threats to vital medical care, we’re gathering with deep poetry and urgent conversation about who gets to make it and how we build the world we need.

    We are coming together as queer and trans disabled poets.

    Julián teaches that ableism supposes able bodied people don’t need support, and that all of us need all of us to make it. Anna’s poetry reminds us “We too are the universe.”

    Bodies Beloved is a place to remember that we belong to each other.

    Join Us at AWP: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Disabled Writers.

    Enjoy special events uplifting LGBTQ+ disabled writers (folks with physically disability, chronic illness, mental illness and psychological disability, neurodiversity)— and deep community conversations they inspire.

    • Curated poetry performances

    • Interactive community installations

    • Conversations that center disabled joy & resilience

    With your support, we’ll fund honorariums, accessibility, and space for these vital voices and representatives.

    Together, we create the world we need.

    “All of us need all of us to make it.”
    —Julián Jamaica Soto

    ”We too are the universe— expanding, in love, experiencing so much grief and joy.”
    —Anna Goodman Herrick 

Speak Wild: Bodies Beloved is a community-led initiative, fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your contributions are tax deductible. Donate today.