I did feel like it was important for me to be honest about the fact that I am a sexual being and that disabled people in general do have sex. - Elsa Sjunneson

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I did feel like it was important for me to be honest about the fact that I am a sexual being and that disabled people in general do have sex.

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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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We need more disabled creators in the media, but it is the viewer's responsibility to think through what they are seeing and not just aimlessly consume. It is their job to ask questions and go to the source. Start by asking, 'Have I ever actually talked to a blind person?'

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Sometimes I'll be on Twitter minding my business, and somebody will roll along and say, You're using a sighted Twitter client, you're not really blind. And then I will get really angry because nobody gets to tell me who I am.

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