Selected Works

Be Black and in Love on the Big Screen // Cherry Picks // February, 2021 (NF E)

Makeup is a Form of Empowerment //Allure// December, 2020 (O B)

How I Learned to Love My Disability // Healthy Women// December 3, 2020 // (NF A)

Disabled People Love Clothes Too // July 26th, 2020 // (A)

Seeds of Revolution // Netflix Queue // July 24th, 2020 // (NF P)

My Joy Is My Freedom // Elle // June 30th, 2020 // (NF E)

 What Reality TV Taught Me About Ending a Friendship // Catapult // May 21st, 2020 (NF E)

Fat, Black, and Too Good to Cancel  // Bitch Media // April 14th, 2020 // (A)

I’ve asked to work remotely for years. It’s painful to watch companies finally comply // Fast Company// April 1st, 2020 // (NF E)

Name a Woman: Pioneering Drag King Gladys Bentley // New Now Next // March 3rd, 2020 // (A)

People Who Helped Me Come To My (Bi)sexual Awakening: A Short Thank You List // Autostraddle // February 4, 2020// (NF E)

This Year, the Women’s March Wants Be More Accessible for Those With Disabilities // Allure// January 17, 2020//  (A)

 I Don’t Want Kids. No, It’s Not Because I’m Disabled // Glamour // June 18, 2019// (NF E)

Finally, There’s A Comedy Where Disability Isn’t The Punch Line // Bitch Media //  April 19th, 2019// (NF R)

Ryan O’Connell Loves TV, and TV Loves Him Back // Bonobos // April 12th 2019 // (NF I)

Books by Black Authors to Add To Your Shelves in 2019 // InStyle // February 9th, 2019 // (NF A)

Brie Larson on Superheroes, Success and her Hollywood sisterhood // Marie Claire UK // February 7th, 2019 Cover Story.

What It’s Like to Be a Disabled Model in the Fashion Industry  // Teen Vogue // September 5th, 2018  Cover Story.

“13 Reasons Why” Shows How Television Needs to Do Better With Disability  // Teen Vogue // May 25th, 2018 (O)

What Grey’s Anatomy Taught Me About Female Friendship  // Medium Off-Beat Zine // May 24th, 2018 (NF E)

We Are All Unruly: The body on the other side of self-hatred // Medium Unruly Bodies pop-up Magazine // April 3, 2018 (NF E)

How Fashion Brands Can—and Should—Address Shoppers With Disabilities  // Glamour Magazine // March 22, 2018  (NF A)

Saying Stephen Hawking Is “Free” From His Wheelchair Is Ableist  // Teen Vogue // March 14, 2018 (NF E)

Where’s the Happily Ever After for Black Women?  // Harper’s Bazaar // March 9th, 2018  (O)

Respect My Disabled Body  // National Eating Disorders Association Blog // February 28, 2018 (NF B)

Young People Are Our Hope: Talking With Lilliam Rivera  // The Rumpus // December 20th, 2017 (NF I)

Twitter. I Just Can’t Quit You // Dame Magazine // November 14th, 2017 (NF E)

Roxane Gay Wants You to See Fat People as Humans //  Harper’s Bazaar //  November 13th, 2017 (NF P)

Writing My Way Out // Lenny Letter // November 7th, 2017 (NF E)

When Will We Learn To Listen to Black Women?  // Dame Magazine // October 17, 2017 (NF E)

The Well-Heeled Life: Shoes, Ability, And Fear  // The New Inquiry // September 8, 2016 (NF E)

“HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES” IS A COLLECTION FULL OF QUEER BOLD WOMEN // Bitch Media // October 3rd, 2017  (NF R)

Our Enraging, Beautiful, Hungry Bodies  // The Rumpus // August 2nd, 2017  (NF E R)

Disabled People Are Not An Inconvenience // Harpers Bazaar //  June 23, 2017 (NF O)

Why Lipstick Makes Me Feel So Empowered As A Disabled Woman  // Allure // June 1st, 2017 (NF E)

How One Woman Celebrates Her Disability with the #DisabledAndCute Hashtag  // Essence // May 2, 2017 (NF E)

High School Students Write Racial Literacy Textbook  // Teen Vogue // March 31, 2017 (NF A)

I’m Celebrating Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month For The First Time // Teen Vogue // March 24, 2017 (NF E)

5 Women of Color Who Are Changing the World For The Better  //  Book Riot // March 9, 2017 (NF A)

Every Day It’s a Roller Coaster  // Lenny Letter // March 7, 2017 (NF E)

The Choice // AFLW Magazine // February 4, 2017 (NF E)

The Sport of Keeping Us Together–Football  //  ESPNW // December 30, 2016 (NF E)

How Solange and Morgan Parker Inspired Me To Write My Herorine  //  Catapult // December 20, 2016 (NF E)

The Two Books That Saved My Young Life  // LitHub // December 8, 2016 (NF E)

On Time and Nostalgia // Femsplain // July 26, 2016 (NF E)

How I Relate to the DAPL Protests as a Black Woman // Teen Vogue // December 2, 2016 (NF E)

Disabled People of Color Struggle To Be Heard  // The Establishment // October 14th, 2016 (NF E)

Disabled and empowered — Why I’m championing strong black female athletes // ESPNW // Aug 19th, 2016 (NF E)

The Magic That Lives // Wildness // Aug 12th, 2016 (NF E)

Bad Bones & Moments // Public Pool // August 11th, 2016 (P)

The Freedom of a Ponytail  //  Lenny Letter // July 6th, 2016 (NF E)

​Season Four Of ‘Orange Is The New Black’ Has A Race Problem // The Establishment // June 30th, 2016 (R)

The Whitewashing of Disability: Trolls, #DisabilityTooWhite and The Fight for Proper Representation  // The Fem Lit Magazine // May 20, 2016 (NF E)

Love, Disability and Movies // Catapult // April 27, 2016  (NF E)

Disability Representation and the Problem with “Inspiration Porn,” // The Toast // April 14, 2016 (NF E)

233 Jackson // Atticus Review // Jan, 27, 2016 (NF E)

My Confidence, My Camera Phone and My Cerebral Palsy // Femsplain // December 16, 2015 (NF E)

MY SISTER’S VERY OWN GREEN-EYED MONSTER…ME // Femsplain // August 27, 2015 (NF E)

Wanderlust, // Rufous City Review // January 2016 (F)

I Loved Georgia, too. // Vine Leaves Literary Journal //April 2015 (F)

*Sweet Tooth // Saturday Night Reader // May 22, 2015 (F)

*To Sad Black Girls // Great Weather For Media Anthology // August 1, 2015 (P)

*Melanin. Bones. Water. // Cactus Heart Press Literary Magazine // January 2015 (P)

Sixteen Nights Into June // The Rain, Party & Disaster Society // May 2014 (P)