The blanked out space where we should be is horrifying. - Elsa Sjunneson

On the erasure of disabled people from public life

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The blanked out space where we should be is horrifying.

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 you have a disability, casting off the people who are the most supportive of you and who help take care of you is a really dangerous thing to do.

Every single piece of work I do is about forcing my way through the door.