In the midst of the pandemic, I collaborated with Jidah Correll, Ames Loji, and Michael Stokes to curate a second volume of the Buzz-Zine. We gathered writing at the intersection of race and disability showing how the illogics of racism and ableism intertwine. Naomi Ortiz’s poem “On The Politics of Being Too Much” speaks to the twined erasure across disability and race made possible through the illogics of normal. They write, “in a reality defined by “normal” / they are unable to discern our contributions from the subtle shift in wind.” In the poem, a “we” who lives at the intersections of latine and disabled identities dances, creates, and dreams across the page unseen by some because of assumptions of “normal” that prevent their recognition.
Jessica Suzanne Stokes 