Dr. Lau's website - https://travisclau.com/

Information about Dr. Lau himself, his current projects, and other interviews/publications

Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor - https://monoskop.org/images/4/4a/Susan_SontagIllness_As_Metaphor_1978.pdf

Using metaphor to express pain and illness

Javier Moscoso's Pain: A Cultural History - https://wellcomecollection.org/works/c2brmrd8

Pain and suffering throughout literature and art throughout history

Joanna Bourke's The Story of Pain From Prayer to Painkillers - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-story-of-pain-9780199689422?cc=us&lang=en&

Coping and experiencing pain and suffering throughout history

David B. Morris's The Culture of Pain - https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520082762/the-culture-of-pain 

What kinds of meaning do we make out of physical and mental pain

Rob Boddice's Pain: A Very Short Introduction - https://academic.oup.com/shm/article/31/3/671/4844540

Thorough history of pain and suffering including hierarchies, vocabularies, and ways of coping which rejects divisions between mental and physical pain 

Jim Ferris's "Crip Poetry, or How I Learned to Love the Limp" - https://wordgathering.syr.edu/past_issues/issue2/essay/ferris.html 

Defining crip poetry and some exploration of other pieces of crip poetry

Stephen Kuusisto's website - https://stephenkuusisto.com/

Blind poet and writer who writes immersive pieces in his experience of blindness 

John Lee Clark's website - https://johnleeclark.com/

DeafBlind writer, lecturer, and leader in Protactile studies

Ilya Kaminsky's website -  https://www.ilyakaminsky.com/

Ukrainian- American writer, lecturer, poet, translator, and law clerk writing on experiences of deafness and immigration

Meg Day's website - http://www.megday.com/ 

Deaf and genderqueer poet/writer writing on the identity and boundaries of the body

Photography of Dr. Lau credits - Den Sweeney