Writer, activist, health nerd, and polymath
I ain’t done. I ain’t quitting ‘til I’m dead. And then I want y’all to carry me off the battlefield on my shield, and then keep fighting. Because that’s the only way we’re gonna hack this universe into a more human-friendly place. – Mighty Casey Quinlan, in conversation with Danny van Leeuwen Captain America, Clad …
I’ll be posting facts, statistics, and more about the community all month long (or until my ADHD stops me, causing me to apologize profusely towards the end of June). If you have questions or topics you’d like to see highlighted, feel free to comment here or send me a message. Otherwise, stay tuned to social …
This is how it feels to wake up daily as a transgender, queer, disabled, and neurodivergent human in Appalachia – Where fellow LGBTQ+ folks and allies act like we should not live, as though areas of our world shouldn’t be accessible for us; As though we should abandon our homes, our communities, our favorite places …
I wrote the following poem last year but have updated it since it’s the 33rd anniversary of the Capitol Crawl, an event where disability activists of all ages literally crawled up the steps of the US Capitol to highlight inaccessibility and urge the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Perhaps the most memorable …
This poem was inspired by the video titled Control, Anatomy, and the Legacy of the Haunted House by Jacob Geller. In it, he covers the video games Control and Anatomy while bringing in notes about Leviticus 14:33-57 and The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. I pulled some sample text from Shirley Jackson’s Sublime …
This poem brought to you by a friend’s shitty ex and messy divorce out of the blue. (And it bringing up past feels about my divorce.) Enjoy! How do you fall out of love? Is it overnight, all at once? where something was, then nothing is, except for maybe pain and fears? Is it gradual, a …
I came across a TikTok video today that hard me nearly in tears. It features an individual reading a piece of work by Bert Hellinger discussing black sheep in families. Here is Bert’s full piece: The so-called black sheep of the family are, in fact, hunters born of paths of liberation into the family tree. The …
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