by Katie | Jun 8, 2018 | Disability
Header Image Alt Text: A photograph of a moon with orange-lit clouds below. CW: Suicide, Mental Illness When I heard about the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, I felt what I always feel when I hear about the suicide of anyone: I feel like I’ve lost a...
by Katie | May 22, 2018 | Creative Writing, Disability, Poetry
Banner Image Alt Text: A photograph of a tall gray sculpture by Picasso located in Kristinehamn, Sweden, with blue skies beyond. When I was in my early twenties, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. That’s when you’re diagnosed, if you’re lucky. BD...
by Katie | May 8, 2018 | Creative Writing, Disability, Hollywood Lights Series
Fallout Girl is the hardest novel I’ve ever written. I’ve written four novels. The three full-length novels of the Hollywood Lights series (check out the whole series of books listed below), and the fourth that’s with my agent now, something entirely...
by Katie | Mar 19, 2018 | Disability
Rather than write an entirely new post, I used Thread Reader to pull together a constantly-growing thread of tweets (I’m up to 20 I think at this point) that I’ve written on the ableist laptop bans that small-minded professors keep proposing and why...
by Katie | Mar 9, 2018 | Disability
Three years ago, I started the column Life of the Mind Interrupted over on Chronicle Vitae to explore the ways higher education could become more humane for students, faculty, and staff with psychiatric disabilities. The column expanded over the years to encompass all...
by Katie | Mar 4, 2018 | Creative Writing, Disability, Essay, Family
I’m emergency-homeschooling my kids. I’m emergency-homeschooling my kids because twice now the disability services in the schools they were enrolled in failed us. This fall, we will enroll them in a third school, and try again. I never (not really) write...
