Lateef McLeod

Lateef McLeod is a poet, novelist, activist, and scholar. In 2019, he started the podcast Black Disabled Men Talk with co-hosts Leroy Moore, Keith Jones, and Ottis Smith. 

McLeod’s books include Studies in Brotherly Love (Prompt Press, 2021), a collaborative ekphrasticartist book with Jorrell Watkins, Claretta Holsey, and DJ Savarese; Whispers of Krip Love Shouts of Krip Revolution (Poetic Matrix Press, 2020); and A Declaration of a Body of Love (Atahualpa Press, 2009). McLeod also co-authored Supporting Individuals Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Breaking Down Opportunity Barriers (Plural Publishing, 2022) and Becoming an Exceptional AAC Leader: Inspiration from 15 Augmentative and Alternative Communication Champions (Exceptional Publishing MLC, 2021). His writing has been anthologized in Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century (Vintage, 2020), edited by Alice Wong.

He was a part of the 2016 and 2007 annual theater performances of Sins Invalid and also of their 2011 artist-in-residence performance of Residence Alien.

McLeod holds a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in creative writing from Mills College. He is a doctoral student in the Anthropology & Social Change program at California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco.