Disability in Library and Information Services

Last month I discovered there’s a new journal in town:

Disability in Libraries and Information Studies (DisLIS) is an open access, multimedia journal run by information professionals who work in various types of information-oriented jobs. All members of the Editorial Board either have disabilities or have extensive experience with disability-centered work. Academic articles are peer reviewed using an open, collaborative review process; book reviews are editorially reviewed.

And just how did I find out? Well, I got an email request for an interview. And of course I said yes.1 You can listen or read to the interview here or download to read and listen at your leisure (it’s long). There are also programme and show notes, all throughly linked and referenced (they are, after all, information professionals).

I haven’t had time to read or listen yet (because long), but I do remember talking a lot to JJ Pionke about Spear, about music, the kind of disability tax that means crips end up paying $41,000 for a bathtub, the power of fiction, and the origin and evolution of the Disabled aspect of my identity. It’s essentially unedited—this is the raw me. Enjoy.

Pionke, JJ. (Host). (2025, June 25.) Interview with Nicola Griffith on Spear. [Audio podcast episode]. DisLIS Author Interviews series. DisLIS, 2. https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/disl... ︎