Narrative Initiative

Mick Moran is a q***r, nonbinary, white, fat, disabled artist and radical full-spectrum doula living in unceded Lenape territory (Brooklyn, NY). They have self-published more than a dozen zines on topics such as self-advocacy, disability, body size, gender, and end-of-life. Mick is the co-creator of My Choice Always, in All Ways: A Zine about Abortion for Trans and Nonbinary Folks and the editor of DIY Doula: Self-Care for Before, During, and After Your Abortion.

Mick has taught workshops on reproductive justice, creating screen-reader accessible zines, and media activism, and their comics have been published in Comics for Choice and Narratively. A 2024 Emerge Fellow with the Longmore Institute on Disability, they are a “disability doula” for people navigating the complex systems and feelings that come with a change in ability.

Mick’s book is a graphic memoir-in-progress that demonstrates, through personal stories of interactions with healthcare providers, that the consequences of implicit bias are more than just “hurt feelings.” Rooted in disability justice, reproductive justice, and fat liberation, this book questions who is seen as deserving of care and how that care is delivered.

The Changemaker Authors Cohort is a joint program of Narrative Initiative and the Unicorn Authors Club, partially supported by the Ford Foundation. Twelve movement workers will join us in 2025-26 to develop their book projects with coaching, community, craft support, editing, and participation in our 4-day Camp Unicorn virtual writing retreat. Camp Unicorn is open to you, too! See our website for more info: https://unicornauthors.club/camp-unicorn-2025/

Fabiola Santiago is from Santiago Matatlán, Oaxaca, Mexico and belongs to the Central Valley Zapotecs. Her experiences as a formerly undocumented person and her connection to Oaxaca’s rich culture anchors her commitment to community, equity, and possibility. She’s the founder and executive director of Mi Oaxaca, an organization whose purpose is to combat Indigenous erasure through narrative change, cultural education, and collaboration with compatible organizations across borders. Fabiola imagines a world where Indigenous people are attributed for their cultural and culinary contributions and have sovereignty over it. She earned her bachelor’s degree in sociology and master’s degree in public health from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Fabiola’s creative non-fiction book explores the commodification of Oaxaca, Mexico, through an intersectional-diasporic-Indigenous lens. The book focuses on the prevalence of cultural appropriation and indigenous erasure in the mezcal and food industry. Through interviews and talking circles, she shares experiences of Oaxaqueñas/os who are the backbone of the commercial industries. It offers thought-provoking and reflective stories aimed at challenging consumerism as a way to build systems where Indigenous peoples and lands are respected and sovereign.

The Changemaker Authors Cohort is a joint program of Narrative Initiative and the Unicorn Authors Club, partially supported by the Ford Foundation. Twelve movement workers will join us in 2025-26 to develop their book projects with coaching, community, craft support, editing, and participation in our 4-day Camp Unicorn virtual writing retreat. See our website for more info.