Other Writing
My Writing
How a Six Pound Dog Transformed My Relationship to My Neighbors
February 4, 2026
A personal essay about how adopting my dog, Spaghetti, turned my block in Brooklyn into Sesame Street.
What is it really like to have a disabled mom?
December 1, 2025
A conversation for Jessica Slice’s newsletter Whatever What Is between myself, a child of a disabled parent, and Slice, who is a disabled parent herself.
What We Can All Learn from Disability Culture
September 4, 2025
A personal essay on being the child of a disabled parent, in Pooja Lakshmin’s newsletter, Real Self Care.
April 27, 2019
A review of Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber for The Los Angeles Review of Books.
Fact Checking
By Eliot Haspel, Early Learning Nation, April 22, 2024.
“Cathy Park Hong: I’m So Sick of the Fact That It’s Not Changing"“
By Sejal Shah, Guernica Magazine, April 17, 2020.
Carmen Maria Machado: “I speak into the Silence”
By Marissa Kobel, Guernica Magazine, December 18, 2019.
Newsletters
Real Self Care by Dr. Pooja Lakshmin
I create early first drafts of researched pieces, provide editorial feedback, and add in additional citations to round out the work of Dr. Lakshmin.
What We Can All Learn from Disability Culture. Guest post for Real Self Care, September 4, 2025.
How to think about Midlife: Menopause is about more than your hormones. March 24, 2025.
3 Self-Care Strategies from Spoon Theory: Learn how to pace yourself. November 17, 2024.
The Double Shift by Katherine Goldstein
I provide research support and line edits on newsletter pieces that align with the research I’m doing with Katherine on her forthcoming book.