Jessica
Slice
Author, Essayist, and Speaker
Writing from my adjustable bed.
Praise for Jessica Slice
“A must-read for anyone committed to building a just and accessible world.”
Aubrey Gordon
“Filled with insight that manages to be at once beautiful and razor-sharp. This book is fucking elucidating. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
Ann Helen Petersen
“Cuts boldly and beautifully through that silence, inviting readers to imagine what our world might look like if we met every family where they are.”
Vogue
“Interweaves her personal experience with a deeper, researched examination of what it means to be a disabled parent in a culture that prizes individualism and fears disability. It also offers an illuminating perspective that applies to all parents.”
The Washington Post
“Details her own story beautifully and intersperses it with oft-ignored research.”
The Cut
“Glorious, revelatory...joy that the entire world can learn from.”
Ed Yong
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About Jesica
Jessica Slice is a disabled author, speaker, and essayist. Her book, Unfit Parent: A Disabled Mother Challenges an Inaccessible World was one of NPR's top books of 2025. She is the co-author of Dateable: Swiping Right, Hooking Up, and Settling Down (Hachette, 2024) and This is How We Play (Dial, 2024), as well as the forthcoming This is How We Talk (Dial, 2025) and We Belong (Dial, 2026), which was co-authored with the late Judy Heumann. She has been published in Modern Love, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, the Guardian, The Globe & Mail, LitHub, Alice Wong’s bestselling Disability Visibility, Slate, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, and more. She’s been featured in Vogue, The New Yorker, PBS, NPR, The Cut, the BBC, and more. She lives in Toronto with her family.