My Writing

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.

The Denver Statement

April 27, 2019
A review of Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz-Weber for The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Fact Checking

“The End User Is a Dollar Sign, It’s Not a Child”: How Private Equity and Shareholders Are Reshaping American Child Care

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.

Coping with climate anxiety in midlife: Tangible steps to feel hope and agency, with Anya Kamenetz. April 29, 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.