Disability Advocacy and Education Club invites submissions

Current residential and PEL students, faculty, alumni, and other Eckerd friends who are part of the disabled community are invited to submit poems, short stories, art, and other work about their experience with their disability to a zine that will be published by the Disability Advocacy and Education club, according to Nikki Ryan, Eckerd residential student and head of the residential student's DEA club.
Ryan explained in an email that a zine is a small, self-published book or paper that is motivated by expression, not profit.

"The purpose of our upcoming zine is to give a forum for disabled people in our community to express how their disability affects them in their own terms and to make their voices heard through media and art," Ryan wrote.

For the first issue, which will be published later this semester, submissions are open only to people with a disability, Ryan wrote. A later issue may solicit work from people who experience disability secondhand.

However, Ryan also noted,"Disability is defined differently depending on where you look. But for this zine . . . your identity as disabled is yours alone. If you identify as disabled you can submit to this zine, regardless of whether your disability been diagnosed or otherwise noted by some official."

Submit your work to Nikki Ryan at nmryan@eckerd.edu. No deadline as been set, but the group plans to publish the zine before the end of the semester.