Our words are revolutions waiting to happen. They light fires and connect humans – they create love and build strong communities. Our words are powerful y’all. Whether you’re a poet, essayist, experimental scribbler, novelist, or academic – the world needs to read your writing. But, the publishing process can be so discouraging, discriminatory, and depleting. Scholar, digital strategist, and accessibility advocate Keidra Chaney has been through it and is here to share her wisdom. She will lead an interactive workshop, helping us make a plan for publishing that keeps our process sustainable, and our words revolutionary.
ASL | Deaf interpreters | CART | virtual | recorded
About Keidra Chaney
Keidra Chaney is a Chicago-based writer. She works as the program director at Disability Culture Lab. After editing personal essays at the award-winning Clamor Magazine, she co-founded and published The Learned Fangirl, a well-known fan studies journal from 2008-2020. In 2020, she started Wild Ramp Publishing, a zine publisher and hub. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, Bitch Media, Uncanny Magazine, Prism, and more. Keidra is a 2024 Emerge Fellow at the Longmore Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University. There, she is creating a digital archive to highlight Black disabled women's activism.