#96 Set L. Shuter on Using Humour and Being Kind to Herself as a Chronically Ill Writer
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Welcome to our semi-final instalment of this string of episodes on writing with limitations and disabilities.
In this episode, writer S.L. Shuter, a member of my Writerly Love Community, talks about embracing an identity related to her diagnosis and the push back she received for this.
Set L. Shuter is a writer, filmmaker and storyteller from Toronto. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The University of King's College and is currently querying her horror-comedy medical memoir, Ovaries Gone Wild. Her essays have appeared in The Toronto Star, Chatelaine Magazine, Understorey Magazine, CBC, and Creative Nonfiction Magazine.
Set reads from an essay about access to medicine related to her condition published in a special COVID-19 edition of Understorey Magazine.
Listen to how she embraces humour related to her limitations but more recently finds more kindness for herself as she writes and makes films about chronic illness.
All of the notes for this episode are up at rachelthompson.co/96
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