Inklusion Guide Impact Report
The Inklusion Guide has been out for two years - we want to measure if it’s had the impact on the industry we hoped for.
Visibility, erasure, and making space for our sublime disabled stories – by Jeda Pearl Lewis
When Williams said, ‘The fact I exist is a political act,’ it reminded me of a recent poem I wrote that repeated the phrase ‘it was political.’ In the context of my own circumstances – who and where I was, my path to writing and writing that very poem, my hypervisibility in 1980s Scotland as a child of a white woman and a Black man – every aspect of my existence felt political, which resulted in the title / first line: ‘I was born / and it was political.’
“It’s only in the last five years that I’ve felt confident enough to challenge the ableism that I come across.” - An interview with Jen Campbell
We chat to best-selling author and award-winning poet, Jen Campbell, about the state of publishing when it comes to access and inclusion.
“Diversity, true diversity, not performative diversity, is the true key to great commercial success.” - An interview with Elle McNicoll, part two
We talk to Elle about access in publishing and the barriers she’s faced as a disabled author.