Shalida A. Askanazi is an author and poet born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of her memoir, That Girl’s in a Wheelchair. She is Afro-Latina and has a rare disability called sacral agenesis. Her work is heavily inspired by being a disabled Black woman in America and mental health in the Black community.
Shalida A. Askanazi is an author and poet born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the author of her memoir, That Girl’s in a Wheelchair. She is Afro-Latina and has a rare disability called sacral agenesis. Her work is heavily inspired by being a disabled Black woman in America and mental health in the Black community.
