Selected Works
Poetry | Fiction | Essays
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)
*Print publication. No online version available at this time.
(NF) = Nonfiction
(E) = Essay
(O) = Opinion
(P) = Poetry
(R) = Review
(P) = Profile
(I) = Interview
(B) = Blog
(A) = Article