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Oct 2021
30m 40s

Being Seen with Elsa Sjunneson

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Elsa Sjunneson is a writer and award-winning editor of speculative fiction and non-fiction. Her life and work challenge and dismantle ableist expectations and attitudes about disability. This week, she sits down with Jessi to chat about her life, her hope for her new memoir, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism, and how welcome and accommod ... Show More
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