In her latest book, The Devil’s Castle: Nazi Eugenics, Euthanasia, and How Psychiatry's Troubled History Reverberates Today , Susanne Paola Antonetta traces over 200 years of history through Germany’s Sonnenstein Castle asylum, uncovering how one of the most enlightened psychiatric care programs in Europe eventually became a site for the Nazi’s eugenic Aktion T4 euthanasia program which murdered hundreds of thousands of disabled people against their will. From the early 1800s

Travis Chi Wing Lau’s latest poetry collection, What’s Left is Tender , examines tenderness in all its form—a gentle touch, a state of softness after violence, a youthfulness, an exchange, a bodily ache. Across these experimental poems, Lau guides the reader through a lyric exploration of the pains and joys of caring for others and being cared for as a disabled and queer person of color, asking the question of how we can move forward to make a more sustainable, caring world. 

With a voice that is at once lyrical, intimate, and unapologetically confrontational, Liv Mammone explores the intersections of disability, queerness, and identity in her new book Fire in the Waiting Room (Game Over Books, 2025). This collection of poems challenges readers to confront society’s tendency to push disabled bodies to the margins by demanding that readers recognize the fullness of disabled lives, including their capacity for pleasure. Mammone disrupts cultural no