by Katie | Jan 12, 2019 | Creative Writing, Disability, Family
:: You can choose to write nothing about your kids, which is a fine choice, or you can write about your kids with utter kindness, respect, and gratitude. And even then, you must be careful. I have a deadline looming for my monthly column about motherhood, and I hit a...
by Katie | Dec 30, 2018 | Environment, Social Justice
:: I’m not here to change your mind. I just want to tell you how I figured some things out about getting rid of plastic, things that now, in retrospect, seem so simple, so obvious, about how to live a simpler life without plastic everywhere. We’ve always been fierce...
by Katie | Nov 7, 2018 | Book Reviews, Feminism, Racial Justice
:: The theme of this month’s book review column is writing the world we want into existence, or, writing the white supremacist patriarchy out of it.* Aimie K. Runyan – Daughters of the Night Sky When I first saw the cover of Runyan‘s Daughters of the Night Sky,...
by Katie | Oct 20, 2018 | Feminism, Journalism, Social Justice
:: I woke up this morning to the most bizarre news story. I mean, truly bizarre. The CNN headline read like this: “Lioness kills the father of her 3 cubs at Indianapolis Zoo.” It went on this way: After hearing a lot of noise in the lion pen, zoo personnel...
by Katie | Sep 26, 2018 | Sexual Assault
:: I really didn’t want to. But how can I not? How can I not? Someone has to write about rape. [CW: Rape, sexual assault, secondary trauma, etc.] There are so many people out there who can’t write about rape. But I can. I have. First, I wrote about being...
by Katie | Aug 8, 2018 | Disability, Journalism
:: Last week, some friends and I launched a magazine to give disability writers a place to publish their work that doesn’t quite fit normate expectations. We’ve called it DISABILITY ACTS, a play on words with the ADA. We’re using Medium as a hosting...
by Katie | Jul 9, 2018 | Feminism, Racial Justice, Social Justice, Sports, Tennis
:: Watching postpartum Serena Williams play at Wimbledon is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. She’s wearing a white babydoll dress. She’s a little thicker than usual. She’s also half-a-step slower than usual—most people probably...
by Katie | Jun 29, 2018 | Disability, Life is Long, Sports, Tennis
:: I’ve spent the last 13 days dizzy, cognitively impaired, and afraid. I’ve spent so many years of my adult life as a disability scholar and activist for disability rights—and frankly, as an activist for the understanding and humane treatment of people with...
by Katie | Jun 28, 2018 | Book Reviews
:: I have some book reviews for you all! I got heat stroke at a tennis tournament and have been sitting on my butt for two weeks, so I’ve been READING A LOT. Good for me, and GOOD FOR YOU. Let’s get this book review party started! (Click the images to view...
