Breath & Shadow

Here are just some of the comments we've received from readers and reviewers.

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Thank you!

–Sharon Wachsler, Editor

"The authentic voices of people with disabilities ring with vitality and power from Breath & Shadow, the online literary magazine. Under editor Sharon Wachsler, poetry, fiction, drama and essays speak to us of the mundane and the magical in the experience of living with a disability today." Mary Johnson, Editor, The Disability Rag's Ragged Edge Magazine and author of Make Them Go Away: Clint Eastwood, Christopher Reeve, & the Case Against Disability Rights

"Breath & Shadow: A Journal of Disability Culture and Literature is an exciting new publication. It's amazing to me that in ten years the idea of disability culture has gone from being an unusual concept to one that most individuals working within the fields of disability rights and disability studies embrace. Breath & Shadow and AbilityMaine have done an admirable job of turning the idea into a significant online journal. I congratulate its editors."
Steven E. Brown, Ph.D.
Cofounder, Institute on Disability Culture, Honolulu, HI
Author of Movie Stars and Sensuous Scars

Readers' Respond:

"I just finished reading your literary journal from cover to cover. The deaf artist's interview was fascinating, provocative, and educational. The poetry was powerful and brilliantly written ('Landscape' is a small masterpiece). Thank you for existing and for bringing to the forefront a literary journal involving the ill and disabled. Your journal deserves to win awards. I must say, though, that I missed your humor column and went crazy searching for it. I look forward to your next journal. . . . It ended much too quickly!"

"It's really, really wonderful! I loved the pieces in this issue."

"I haven't the words. . . . Sad . . . horrified . . . ashamed . . . scared. . . ."

"Thank you, thank you, thank you for such a great magazine. Can't wait for the next issue. My interest is from being the mother/carer of a person living with psychiatric disability really wanting to give him as much independence and therefore empowerment as is possible. Please keep up the great work. I love it!"

"I'm very excited about receiving your Literary & Culture Journal. I LOVED every bit of it. I hope to slowly be able to read every single past article, too. Thanks for your valuable work that's so desperately needed and long overdo. And bravo to all the 'midwifes' who helped you deliver this dream of a journal."

"It's 5:30 am and I'm getting ready for work, so I've only read your interview, but that's a fantastic interchange. VERY skillful interviewing and a great insight into deaf art."

"Thank you. You made my day –– made me recall my Voice pounding to free itself in its facets."

"I eagerly await the latest issue of Breath & Shadow. What a powerful bit of work this is! I just wanted to tell you that this month's article by Erin was profound. I appreciated her ability to tell this in the raw manner that it needed. What beautiful grace and candor. Can you thank her for me?"

"This issue of Breath & Shadow is FANTASTIC –– the best yet. These pieces are all equally powerful. Your essay made me laugh out loud several times. Grossberg's poetry and Brenn-Bear's play are extremely moving: I relate to both of them. Breath & Shadow is a beautifully conceived and implemented idea and I hope you are able to keep it going.

"Just finally sat down and read the Morris dancer story. I cried. Hope, staying with our truth, enjoying the joy of the moment."