I don't do much self-promotion beyond sharing links to new pieces, but I would love it if folx would consider the Writing While Disabled series for various lists or nominations or classroom discussions, because that would really help me boost my brilliant co-authors / interviewees, and my publisher for

Ageism cuts across multiple marginalizations, just like Disability and Queerness and gender, please keep this in mind in community discussions about SFF.  If you're in a discussion about ageism, it's important to constantly center intersectional ageism. Ageism hurts many folx in SFF contexts, truly, it does.

Hey, readers! I've not updated this page in a bit, but you can now find live links to the first six published interviews in the Writing While Disabled series over on the published works page. Number six just dropped! Writing While DisabledI might write only one story in

Hello, everyone! Interview 2 of my Writing While Disabled series went up in November, if you missed it! I got to sit down with the amazing Mary Robinette Kowal and ask her lots of useful questions about writing methodology. Writing While Disabled“It’s not that I don’t want

Hello my friends of the writerly, editorial, scholarly, fannish, and all other creative sorts! Here's the link to my first Writing While Disabled interview, now live on the Strange Horizons website! Our editor for this piece is the talented Gautam Bhatia, whom I very much enjoyed working with.

Ok, it's official! My essay on disability is coming out in WisCon Chronicles Volume 12: Boundaries and Bridges! Michi Trota and Isabel Schechter [https://www.facebook.com/IsabelSchechter?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARAKwyvv5oRr_JUn4Y_kaxi7gB-29SG39y7FH_GwrMRvPPa3t8jwonklHaQFioLin0dAFvsyoB6TENwx&fref=mentions] have been a delight to work with, and it&

I propose a different kind of cop drama. The department is driven by accountability, building community relationships, communication, de-escalation and other training, excellent communication and support at every level for both police and policed, fair compensation, work-life balance, great benefits, and other elements that lead to meaningful success, inter-community trust,

White fragility and white tears* are complicated by some disabilities, but we disabled people are still accountable for our reactions and behavior. Mental health issues may mean that my White Fragility Meltdown™ includes sudden and powerful panic attacks, cognitive distortions, and even suicide ideation with a specific and immediately actionable

Interesting article below! I tend to use beats a little differently, based on what I've learned from classes and workshops. (Dave Farland writes about fiction beats in his writing books. Brandon Sanderson and the Writing Excuses team talk about this.) I use beats during drafting when I get

First, here's the link. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/01/13/rob-lowe-caregivers-social-security-self-care-column/2539450002/ Ok, cool. One main concern. Do we really not talk about the burden of care? I think we do, but in unproductive and damaging ways that harm both the disabled person and

Hello, everyone! Kristy Anne Cox (Kristy Eagar) here! One important first step of intersectional thinking and modern American activism is being able to articulate the intersections of one's identity clearly. So, hi! I'm a mom, a writer, and an educator. I'm an anglophone (english-speaking)

I often try to describe the anxiety part of what it's like to have ODC, OCPD, ADHD, a severe anxiety disorder, depression, trichotillomania, and body dismorphia. I try to describe the intensity, the catastrophic focus of this anxiety. "Gods, this is CATASTROPHICALLY WRONG and the air is

If you have not yet had the delight of reading this graphic novel by indigenous Hawaiian author/illustrator Sloane Leong, I heartily recommend it. It's beautifully written and illustrated. Vep, an indentured refugee, is forced to participate in settling a new world, and things get messy, fast. This