She knew she had a voice and a platform. It’s not like she didn’t know that when she wrote for The New Republic. She knew that people listened to her… - Elsa Sjunneson

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She knew she had a voice and a platform. It’s not like she didn’t know that when she wrote for The New Republic. She knew that people listened to her, and she made a decision to throw a different type of disability under the bus. And that’s not really something that I can say was okay.

On Helen Keller's support for eugenics

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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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I do think that hearing from her is important. By letting the mythology of William Gibson be the only record that we teach kids, we’re letting a man tell us what a woman’s life was like, and not just any man, we’re talking about a non disabled man.

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