11/08/2022
Cover Image: “Confined and selfloathing,” by Carly Riegger
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For some people with disabilities, bed can be a haven of comfort and joy, while for others it’s associated with pain and sickness. “Bed Zine” is the independent publication that invites those with disabilities to explore, through art and writing, the complicated and varied relationships they have with their beds. Writer Madeleine Morley meets the zine’s founder Tash King, and hears how it aims to represent the widest range of feelings from people with the widest range of disabilities from as many places as possible.
I’m writing this article in bed.
I write most of my stories in bed because I have a few interrelated chronic illnesses that make it uncomfortable for me to sit up for long periods of time. Before I even knew I was ill, my desk was my duvet: You’ll often find me with my laptop balanced on a stack of cushions, getting the charger cable entangled with the wire of my fuzzy heating pad. As Lena Dunham has written about her own experience with chronic illness, “I am cozy to survive.” This too is my motto.
When I speak with Tash King, the founder of “Bed Zine,” I’m also in bed. “I’m actually more of a couch girl myself,” she says on the phone from her apartment in Vancouver. We’re talking about how “bed” means so many different things to different people with disabilities; for me personally, I spend most of my day trying to get back into my bed as I love to be here, but for Tash, “I kind of resent my bed because it’s a place where I toss and turn for hours and where I deal with a lot of nerve pain.”
Cover Image: “Confined and selfloathing,” by Carly Riegger
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For some people with disabilities, bed can be a haven of comfort and joy, while for others it’s associated with pain and sickness. “Bed Zine” is the independent publication that invites those with disabilities to explore, through art and writing, the complicated and varied relationships they have with their beds. Writer Madeleine Morley meets the zine’s founder Tash King, and hears how it aims to represent the widest range of feelings from people with the widest range of disabilities from as many places as possible.
I’m writing this article in bed.
I write most of my stories in bed because I have a few interrelated chronic illnesses that make it uncomfortable for me to sit up for long periods of time. Before I even knew I was ill, my desk was my duvet: You’ll often find me with my laptop balanced on a stack of cushions, getting the charger cable entangled with the wire of my fuzzy heating pad. As Lena Dunham has written about her own experience with chronic illness, “I am cozy to survive.” This too is my motto.
When I speak with Tash King, the founder of “Bed Zine,” I’m also in bed. “I’m actually more of a couch girl myself,” she says on the phone from her apartment in Vancouver. We’re talking about how “bed” means so many different things to different people with disabilities; for me personally, I spend most of my day trying to get back into my bed as I love to be here, but for Tash, “I kind of resent my bed because it’s a place where I toss and turn for hours and where I deal with a lot of nerve pain.”
