by Katie | Oct 7, 2017 | Disability, Social Justice
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 popular media turn to some predictable talking points....
by Katie | Jun 16, 2017 | Disability
Image Alt Text: A fisheye photograph of the Hollywood sign from the back at sunset. Creative Commons image via Pixabay. I was skimming through my Instagram, when I came across a recent post by my friend Tipsy Tullivan. (Tipsy is a pseudonym for a great writer who...
by Katie | Oct 12, 2016 | Disability, Racial Justice, Social Justice
Image Alt-Text: A screen-capture of a tweet from my account, @krgpryal: “If we put armor on our safe-keepers & guns in their hands, the weak, ill, impoverished, & oppressed will be harmed. #DemilitarizeThePolice” I have no reason to fear the...
by Katie | Sep 26, 2016 | Authors We Love, Creative Writing, Disability
Alt text: a photographic image of a fractal in brown and gold tones, spiraling counter-clockwise. Image via Pixabay. Post Last Updated: September 26, 2016. This list was inspired by my panel presentation at the Creative Writing Studies Organization Conference in...
by Katie | May 30, 2016 | Disability
Image Alt Text: Photograph of four colorful lampshades on a black background, all askew. Me, trying to explain my not-so-bad-all-things-considered* OCD to my loving husband after I burst into tears tonight over a lampshade: It’s not that I actually care about...
by Katie | Apr 5, 2016 | Disability
Image Alt-Text: A photograph of a one-by-eight yellow lego piece held by a thumb and forefinger. The background is black. The piece has a series of holes in the side. The final hole has been drilled out to make it slightly larger than the others. This post is Part 3...
