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KENNY’S WORKS
Audiotext: Disability Can Save Your Life
Kenny’s audiotext, “Disability Can Save Your Life,” is written in a hybrid form, between poem and essay, a collage also including a brief passage from In the Province of the Gods, as well as references to other related history, including the killing of the disabled in the Nazi Aktion T4 program. Though the piece was written in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and, on the surface, it is about the uncertainty and danger of these times, it is also about misunderstandings of what constitutes a disabled life, misunderstandings that are a pandemic of its own. “Disability Can Save Your Life” is dedicated to Stacey Park, DJSC disability activist, who died of non-COVID-related causes on May 19, her 33rd birthday.
“Kenny Fries makes dazzling connections between the most intimate details and the most sweeping panoramas, and left me changed by his insights.”
Articles and Essays
Essay: "Without Us: Disabled Writers 30 Years After the ADA" (Evergreen Review)
Essay: "The Nazis' First Victims Were the Disabled" (The New York Times)
Essay: "Before The Final Solution There Was a 'Test Killing'" (The New York Times)
Essay: "Why We (Don't) Remember: On the 80th Anniversary of Aktion T4" (The Believer)
Essay: "The Survivals of Lafcadio Hearn" (Granta)
Essay: "The Fries Test: On Disability Representation in Our Culture" (Medium)
Disability Beat columns for How We Get To Next
Essay: "How Adrienne Rich Taught Me To Drive: The Education of a Gay Disabled Writer" (The Progressive)