Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Making Space Accessible Is an Act of Love for Our Communities” appeared in an earlier form

So Much Time Spent in Bed: A Letter to Gloria Anzaldúa on Chronic Illness, Coatlicue, and Creativity” originally appeared as a segment of “Sweet Dark Places,” an essay cowritten by Qwo-Li Driskill and Aurora Levins Morales, in El Mundo Zurdo 2 (San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 2012).

the law mandating disabled access to public spaces and transportation to the chronic illness and disability stories of second-wave queer feminists of color like Sylvia Rivera, June Jordan, Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, Marsha P. Johnson, and Barbara Cameron, whose lives are marked by bodily difference, trauma-surviving brilliance, and chronic illness but who mostly never used the term “disabled” to refer to themselves