by Katie | Mar 9, 2018 | Disability
:: Disability in higher education is an inevitability. And we must stop treating it like a nuisance. 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,...
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)...
by Katie | Feb 3, 2018 | Creative Writing, Disability
:: It was very important to me to have the reader be in my hero’s POV when she is in crisis or witnessing her mental illness. Update 3/26/2018: Fallout Girl is available for Pre-Order now. Here it is on Amazon: bit.ly/falloutgirl. I have a new novel coming out...
by Katie | Oct 16, 2017 | Disability, Freelance Academic, My Books, Social Justice
:: Three years ago, I wrote a column for a magazine about hiding my psychiatric disability because I feared for my job in higher education. Three years later, disability, in particular, mental health, became a regular beat of mine, and I’ve written essays and...
by Katie | Oct 7, 2017 | Disability, Social Justice
:: Our gun problem is not a mental health problem. In the wake of every mass shooting tragedy in the United States, when the shooter is not somehow affiliated with the Islamic kind of terrorism, but rather the white, homegrown American kind, politicians and the...
by Katie | Jun 16, 2017 | Disability
:: Having a disability is not only about the outward signs of disability that an actor portrays on film. It’s about the life-long experiences, the pains and the joys, that living with disability brings. I was skimming through my Instagram, when I came across a...
