Lucas Scheelk: The Full Body Project
Photo: Joanna C. Valente
The Full Body Project
(a book-spine poem)
The Golem
through the door of life
outwitting history
flying without a net
The whole world was watching
textual activism
Disability visibility
Mishkan Ga’avah where Pride dwells
Beauty is a verb
Image is a book spine poem with a stack of books on top of a brown coffee table; the titles of the books are as follows: “The Full Body Project – photographs by Leonard Nimoy,” “The Golem” by Elie Wiesel, “Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders” by Joy Laden, “Outwitting History” by Aaron Lansky, “Flying without a Net” by E.M. Ben Shaul, “The Whole World was Watching” by Romaine Patterson, “Textual Activism” by Rabbi Mike Moskowitz, “Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century” edited by Alice Wong, “Mishkan Ga’avah: Where Pride Dwells – A Celebration of LGBTQ Jewish Life and Ritual” edited by Rabbi Denise L. Eger, and “Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability” edited by Jennifer Bartlett, Sheila Black, and Michael Northern.
Lucas Scheelk is an autistic, queer, non-binary white Jew with bipolar disorder. Lucas uses they/them pronouns. They're originally from the Twin Cities, now living in Washington state. They’re the author of THIS IS A CLOTHESPIN (Damaged Goods Press, 2016) and HOLMES IS A PERSON AS IS (self-published, 2016). Their work has been featured in Assaracus, Barking Sycamores, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology, Queer Voices: Poetry, Prose, and Pride, Stone of Madness Press, and Pandemic Publications, among others. They have current or forthcoming works in Spoon Knife 5: Liminal, Wizards in Space Issue #6 and Mollyhouse Issue #2. Twitter: @TC221Bee.
