Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on contributors -- Introduction / Paul D. C. Bones, Jessica Smartt Gullion, and Danielle Barber -- Existing in a mortal form and other disabling experiences / E. J. K. Bremner and R. McGuire -- Disabled humans and our non-human animal companions / Paul D. C. Bones -- Pet profile: Charlie / Aparna Nair -- Disability discourse stuck in a black/white binary: Embodying a black and disabled identity as a mixed-race person / Cassandra Lovelock -- Plum tomato: Solanum lycopersicum / Ellen Samuels -- Disability aesthetics: A crip artistry manifesto / Aurora Berger -- Life on the line / Aurora Berger -- Finding my way in a society where I don't fit / Jill Richardson -- Pet profile: Mac / Valerie and Chase Novack -- Misfit in the academy: Succeeding as a visually impaired scholar in Australia / Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes -- Pet profile: Mudkip / Ari -- Justice vs. Injustice: Poetic dialogue about the meaning of disability justice among people labelled/with intellectual disability / Anonymous 1-3, Nicholas Herd, Anonymous 4, Doreen Kalifer, with support from Erin Kuri and Ann Fudge Schormans -- Inspiration porn and desperation porn: Disrupting the objectification of disability in media / Kara B. Ayers and Katherine A. Reed -- Pet profile: Scribbles / Melanie Coughlin -- Tap tap tap / Marie Gagnon -- Adaptation from the margins: Toward a crip theatre / Christopher Bryant -- Pet profile: Pepper / Brian -- Diagnosis limbo / Danielle Barber -- Pet profile: Luther & Layla / Danielle Barber -- Successful sad / Vanessa Ellison -- Pet profile: Monkey / Emily Dall'Ora Warfield -- Ddeaf adjacency: Liminal conditions of not hearing / Megan Marshall -- S-I-L-I-C-O-N-E Inject-Ear : Silicone injections In American Sign Language (ASL) Gloss and English / Raymond Luczak -- Utensils and fire / Jessica Spears Williams -- Seeing brains: Shakespeare, autism, and self-identification / Nicholas R. Helms -- Pet profile: Pike Trickleg / Lauren (aka L. W. Salinas) -- Hot girl bummer: Achieving disabled sexual liberation in an ableist world / Katherine O'Connell -- Pet profile: Abacus / Kimberly C. Merenda -- Selected poems / Jessi Aaron -- Pet profile: Opal, Orbit, & Ruby / Aubree Evans -- Maybe do talk to strangers on the internet? An interview with Corin Parsons / Corin Parsons (with Paul D. C. Bones) -- Pet profile: Finn & Bear / Corin Parsons -- Finding empowerment in the middle: Navigating hidden disabilities in academia / Summer M. Jackson -- Pet profile: Rocko (More Formally Known as Rocko Taco) / Summer M. Jackson -- Taking center stage in the face of shame and scars / Jasmine (Jaz) Gray -- Pet profile: Aisling & Truthe / Jennifer Stahl -- Assisstive tech, assertive tech / Cole Sorensen -- Modern day changelings: On being an autistic parent of an autistic child / Alison Kelly -- Stone, water, land, spine / Elizabeth Glass -- Pet profile: Maximus Aurelius Gullion, Guardian of the Realm, Slayer of Demons, Friend to Unicorn and Dragon, Defender of Squeaky Toys & Spartacus the Mighty / Jessica Smartt Gullion -- Cancer isn't like a movie, but if it was it'd be a horror flick / Terri Juneau Eklund -- Pet profile: Bacon & Pancake / Terri Juneau Eklund -- "It's meant to be a hazing process": Deciphering ableism surrounding academic accommodations / Corey Reutlinger -- Pet profile: Captain Jack Harkness & Pippa Millicent Tiny Panther / Tara Eliot -- Night of the living ableds: Disability, representation, and horror film / Paul D. C. Bones -- Pet profile: Mildred Sausage, Allan Hamsteak, & Inara Bacon / Paul D. C. Bones -- A bright green: After Lou Ferrigno, a deaf bodybuilder who played the Incredible Hulk (1977-1982) / Raymond Luczak -- Manifesto / The committee for the sick and useless.