Snark lets me be funny while shoving the knife in. It takes… - Elsa Sjunneson

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Snark lets me be funny while shoving the knife in. It takes a little bit of the edge away. So the people don't always notice that I'm using a scalpel.

Elsa Sjunneson

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About Elsa Sjunneson

Elsa Sjunneson is an award-winning Deafblind author, editor, historian, media critic, and speaker living in Seattle. Her work includes the forthcoming Dear Blind Lady: Disability Advice You Didn't Know You Needed (Sasquatch Books, October 6, 2026), the Washington State Book Award-winning memoir Being Seen, and Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Sword of the White Horse. She has won three Hugo Awards, an Aurora Award, and a British Fantasy Award for editorial work, and her nonfiction has appeared in venues including CNN, Tor.com, and The Boston Globe.

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There is a burning fire in my chest every single day, and it has been there since I was a little girl. And I think that that rage comes from existing in a world that wants to define me constantly based on their own decisions of who I should be.

When people thrust their perception of how you should be onto you, that is horror.

Why is it the business of the nondisabled to determine what it means to be blind, or the business of the hearing to determine what it means to be deaf? Why are people who don't use wheelchairs policing the visual of a wheelchair user?

Snark lets me be funny while shoving the knife in. It takes a little bit of the edge away. So the people don't always notice that I'm using a scalpel. - Elsa Sjunneson

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