[caption id="attachment_280821" align="alignleft" width="377"] s.e. smith photo by Jim Burakoff[/caption]

Writer, agitator, and commentator s.e. smith* joins us for the half hour.   Based in Northern California, s.e. smith has a journalistic focus on social issues, particularly gender, prison reform, disability rights, environmental justice, queerness, class, and the intersections thereof, with a special interest in rural subjects.

s.e. smith has been published in The Guardian, Bitch Magazine [1], Aljazeera America [2], AlterNet, Yes! Magazine [3], Jezebel, Salon, the Sundance Channel blog, Longshot Magazine, Think Progress, xoJane, Truthout [4], Teen Vogue, Time, Nerve, VICE, The Week [5], In These Times [6], Vox, Bustle, the Daily Dot, Rolling Stone, Mic, Rewire and other outlets.

Eddie Ytuarte produced and hosts this discussion of s.e.'s recent writings on disability.

(*smith spells ou’s name in lower case letters; pronoun preference for s.e. is "ou.")

Let’s Mail Our Remains to Paul Ryan When Trumpcare Kills Us. [7]   "…Griffin notes that, in this instance, cremains may act as protected speech, potentially creating some Constitutional issues— especially if the sender is placed on a government watch list."

s.e. smith from a recent article in VICE magazine [8].

 

[1] https://www.bitchmedia.org/post/pushback-at-the-intersections-defining-and-critiquing-intersectionality

[2] http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2016/1/14/hospital-hotels-whats-lurking-in-your-guest-room.html

[3] http://www.yesmagazine.org/happiness/one-boys-highly-illogical-behavior-a-twist-on-mental-illness-in-literature-20160511

[4] http://www.truth-out.org/op-ed/item/43296-department-of-education-rules-that-texas-violated-rights-of-disabled-students

[5] http://theweek.com/articles/567908/why-much-internet-still-inaccessible-disabled-people

[6] http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19989/how_states_are_trying_to_end_the_disability_unemployment_crisis

[7] https://realsesmith.com/index.php/2017/05/18/vice-lets-mail-our-remains-to-paul-ryan-when-trumpcare-kills-us/

[8] https://www.vice.com/en_us