SICK Magazine

SICK is an independent, thoughtful magazine by chronically ill & disabled people, founded & edited by Olivia Spring and designed by Kaiya Waerea. SICK is committed to elevating the voices of sick & disabled people by publishing essays, features, poetry, visual art, interviews, and more. Our aim is to increase representation of sick & disabled people in publishing and the arts and to challenge the harmful stereotypes and misconceptions surrounding disability. We work in and with our slowness, pausing and resting when we need to. We believe, listen to, and support each other. We reject productivity as means of value and celebrate our sick & disabled bodies.

Artist bio

Olivia Spring is the founder and editor of SICK Magazine. She lives a slow life in central Maine, writing about illness and trauma alongside her rescue dog, Black Bean. Her work has appeared in It's Nice That, Thick Press, and Rekto: Verso, among others, and she has given talks on disability and publishing for College of the Atlantic, Edmonton Poetry Festival, Indiecon, and more.

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Cover image: A scan of an interview spread in SICK magazine with Dead Gowns in issue 6, 2024