You have plenty to keep you engaged in this DSQ. It is our largest issue ever, with a Freakery theme section, the second part of the Technology theme section, and a Forum on the controversial film, Million Dollar Baby.

This issue also contains three general papers, whose topics range from Vermont prisoners with disabilities, to equal opportunities for athletes with disabilities, to an interpretation of the liberation theology of disability. We also have a dozen reviews of books, films, and TV programs.

We have recently returned from the annual meeting of the Society for Disability Studies, which publishes DSQ, and are energized from hearing the fabulous work going on in Disability Studies. Some of that work will appear in future DSQ issues. So, as always, we encourage you to submit your research to us for peer review, or if you would like to write commentary or do a review, that would be a welcomed contribution, too.

Although this is a preface to the Summer issue, we want to remind readers to ready yourselves for the Fall issue because the second part of the Freakery theme section will appear there, as well as a theme section on Law.

As always, we want to continue to ask that you be "ambassadors" for DSQ — specifically, we would like you to ask your academic library or organization to become an institutional subscriber to the journal. We often receive requests from DSQ authors to make their articles available to their non-subscriber colleagues. A library subscription allows that to happen, as well as giving an entire campus access to five years of articles in DSQ.

We have some personnel changes to announce here at DSQ. Patricia Young, who has been our Editorial Assistant/Intern, is moving on to Bridge Multimedia, a New York City-based company that supports all types of universally accessible media for entertainment, educational, commercial, and government applications. Patricia has worked hard and creatively on behalf of DSQ. We enthusiastically welcome Susan Baglieri as our new Editorial Assistant/Intern. Susan is a doctoral student at Teachers College, Columbia University in curriclum and teaching with a focus in learning disability. We look forward to the assistance and expertise she will bring to DSQ.

Finally, with great sadness we note the passing of our Editorial Board member Frieda Zames. She was a longtime New York City disability activist and co-author of The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation. Her obituary is in the News & Notes section of this issue of DSQ. Her vibrant spirit and loyal support of DSQ will be sorely missed.

Beth Haller & Corinne Kirchner, Co-Editors