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Magazine Stand :: Kaleidoscope – Winter/Spring 2025

Kaleidoscope has creatively explored the experience of disability through literature and the fine arts for 45 years, and issue 90 (Winter/Spring 2025) is now available. Contributors delve into the impact disability has on relationships, parenting, and aging, while other pieces provide insight into neurodiversity, chronic illness, ableism, and resilience.

In the featured essay, “My Legs,” Bonnie Ruane Wheeler takes a closer look at her lower limbs and contemplates the ways they have carried her for more than half a century. Beginning in the womb with a mere flutter, she eloquently recounts memories of legs that performed pirouettes, climbed, paced, and even buckled beneath her. These snapshots through time transport readers to the present day, and a diagnosis she might not be able to outrun.

Four local artists are featured in this issue along with a wonderful group of established and emerging writers: Mio Aoki-Sherwood, Brenda Beardsley, Diane Bell, Gail Brown, Virginia Isaacs Cover, Mimi Eagar, Meg Eden, Elliott Gorski, Linseigh Green, Mia Herman, Gabriel Hull, Elly Katz, Philip Andrew Lisi, M. S. Marquart, H. McCrystal, Anne Mikusinski, Tim Murphy, Dixie L. Partridge, Roselyn Perez, Zach Pietrafetta, Lily Sargent, Mary Harwell Sayler, Val Valdez, Bonnie Ruane Wheeler, Heather Wicks, Katharine Yusuf, Lisa Zimmerman, and Hearts For Music.