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parallel stress: the beginning is also the end

Karrie lies at the bottom of steep, concrete stairs as though they have fallen backward. Their feet are partially on the stairs and body is twisted. In their right hand, they grip a NASCAR racing flag; in their left hand, an empty prescription bottle. Their red walking cane appears to be falling down the stairs. They are wearing a skirt printed with their brother's police booking photograph. Here, the physicality of an access barrier (the stairs) meets the psychology of trauma, revealing how points of physical inaccessibility also must be understood in terms of what cannot be seen in the scene.

publications
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A Tape Doesn't Change a Goddamn Thing (the piece Huffington Post didn't want you to read!), Full Grown People--nominated for a Pushcart by contributing editor Jennifer Lunden (thank you!)

Interviewed by Alaina Leary for The Establishment

Prince and the Sparkle Brains: growing up epileptic, surviving sexual abuse, and loving Prince in Cahoodaloodaling
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Prince and the Sparkle Brains: growing up epileptic, surviving sexual abuse, and loving Prince in Huffington Post

​Dear Able Friends: I am not your inspiration porn
in Huffington Post

Lucky to be Alive: Zika Coverage, Ableism, and the Terror of Disabled Bodies in Huffington Post

A Queer Disability Anthology: Disability and LGBTQ Intersectionality in Huffington Post

Interviewed in The Rumpus 


The Strange Flowers in The Manifest-Station, a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2015

Partial Match  in DIAGRAM 13.4, a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2014


The 37 Miracles of Block 37, Western Humanities Review, Winter 2014, 68.1. Available online here.

The Bottle City of God, in The Cincinnati Review, Summer 2014, winner of the Schiff Award for Prose. 

Proxy Sister reprinted from Full Grown People by Mapping SLC

Proxy Sister, Full Grown People


Nowhere, No Place, Like Home in Black Clock, Issue 16 


State Lines in Quarter After Eight, Volume 11/12. 

Radio Frequency in Los Angeles Review.


collaborator on The Square Root of True, a Creative Nonfiction Round Table on the art of the micro-essay





exhibitions 


Parallel Stress | I am trying to get as honest as I can The James Franco Review

​Featured in The Deaf Poets Society 

Parallel Stress Disability Poetics/Occupy Iconic Performance Art series featured in
 Rogue Agent 

The Valley of the Dry Bones (video performance) exhibited at Intermedia Retrospective, University of Iowa, 2014​







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