Katie Hansord – författare

The word crip was once used to discriminate. Today, it is reclaimed and celebrated.Crip Stories is a gathering of vibrant and diverse experiences from disabled people. A collection of narrative non-fiction, essays and poetry, it affirms the ethos of ‘nothing about us without us’ by amplifying first-person narrative voices of lived experience.With contributors including Carly Findlay, TextaQueen, CB Mako, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Skye Cusack, Jenny Hedley, Akii Ngo, Sharleigh Crittenden, Angela Costi, Hen Sid Chandran, Ari Spanos, Sandra Collins, J Marahuyo, Mario Licón Cabrera, Franklyn Hudson, Ann Nguyen, Rosie Putland, Priya Gore Johnson, Mona Zahra Attamimi, Joey Harper, Judith Huang, Pat Bui, Kerri Shying, Arty Owens, Irina Frolova, Hannah Hall, Julie Dickson, Marina Sano, Ariel Riveros, Ethan Patrick, Paris Rosemont, Sam Hamad.

My book traces the significant poetic and political contributions made by non-canonical women poets, situating women's poetry both in colonial Australian print culture and in wider imperial and transnational contexts. Women poets in colonial Australia have tended to be represented as marginal and isolated figures or absent. This study intervenes by demonstrating an alternative networked tradition of transnational feminist poetics and politics beyond and around emergent masculine nationalism, particularly within newspapers and periodical print culture. Without the inclusion of periodical literature, women’s poetry in Australia during the colonial period would appear to have been fairly limited. When periodical literature is taken into account, this picture is radically altered, and poets emerge as consistent contributors, often across a variety of newspapers and journals, who were well-known, influential and connected with political figures and literary circles. In examining this poetry in the original context of the newspapers and journals, the political intervention and the reception of that poetry is made much more apparent.