
What can love look like when you’re disabled — and how do you write about grief when the crisis is still ongoing? In this episode of Still Here, hosts Miles Griffis and Betsy Ladyzhets sit down with poet, author, and disability justice organizer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinha to discuss their new poetry collection, The Way Disabled…

Author and educator Sara Robitaille seeks to raise awareness and educate kids with her two new children’s books, Long COVID Transformed My Mommy and Long COVID Transformed My Sister into a Turtle.

The book fails to convey the severity of infection-associated chronic conditions, demands for treatment, or importance of infection prevention.

2022 brought us some of the first books on Long Covid, including The Long Covid Survival Guide, The Long Haul, and The Long Covid Handbook. Now, as we forge into the fifth year of the Covid-19 pandemic, more books and anthologies are emerging authored by people with Long Covid and related conditions, as well as…
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