Over the course of his life, · R L · has written on an improbable number of subjects, across diverse mediums, & experienced dramatic changes in publishing technologies. A focus on the Arts & Humanities have been consistent throughout, but it has taken coming to terms with the realities of illness, neurodiversity, disability, and other sundry barriers to make a professional return to writing possible. It has taken half a lifetime to genuinely appreciate the levels of support necessary, and the concessions required, to pursue and sustain a professional life in the creative arts. This appreciation is a large part of what brought them to re-enter the creative sphere, and to found APROSEXIA LIT, a open-access online poetry journal of work by divergent, challenged, and challenging minds. He made the recent decision to expand its scope of the project, and is now working toward opening a greater range of opportunities for non-visibly disabled artists in publishing, and ways to establish representation that doesn’t assume the best audience for the work of a divergent mind is an unchallenged one.

So, in mid-life stride, · R L · has made the decision to create a space they haven’t been able to find on their own—one that resists against the attacks against categories such like “disabled,” that working to efface the subjects behind the word by assuming that they are static, easily knowable beings; that disability means a specific forms experience; thus unambiguous and easy to understand what it means to be pitied or ignored. But also make room for an assumption that to be disabled or divergent doesn’t need to be, look, or sound a certain way to be authentic or true. To make the first assumption be that the unknown mind is a given, and no one person’s words needs to be legible to every eye, ear, or finger that encounters them. Because the world just isn’t that simple. It’s not that easy to understand, for anyone.

And to pretend otherwise is such a load of twaddle.