Content notice: discusses physical and psychological child abuse, racist tropes, colonialism, eugenics, white supremacy, sexism, and ableism in a SFF setting Paul Atreides, the protagonist and controversial messiah figure from the classic 1965 sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert, is a result of the Bene Gesserit Order’s centuries-long eugenics program…

CN: spoilers for all of Orphan Black (the TV series. I haven’t listened to the audio series Orphan Black: The Next Chapter yet.) Trigger warnings: sexual, physical, and medical violence; murder; suicide; eugenics; genocide; ableism Orphan Black was a Canadian, sci-fi TV show that aired on Space and BBC America…

CN: discusses racism, genocide, ableism, sexism, and cis-sexist gender binaries All ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects, by the functioning of the category of the subject. … ideology ‘acts’ or ‘functions’ in such a way that it ‘recruits’ subjects among the individuals (it recruits them all), or…

If you discovered my work through my Medium essays, you may be unfamiliar with my published, original fiction or my fan fiction. Here are some recent highlights. New, Original Fiction Inspired by My Life, Flannery O’Connor, and Sigmund Freud (trigger warnings: ableism, sexual harassment) “The Only Way to Travel” was published today in Corporeal Lit Mag, with audio of me reading it! …

Trigger warnings: suicide attempt; self-harm; explicit quotes from texts on gendered and ableist physical and sexual abuse A few months ago, I read Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today by Rachel Vorona Cote because it was a $2.99 digital deal. I’m posting this review now, partly because…

I have cerebral palsy and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and certain ideas have obsessed me for my entire life. I’ll probably never stop writing about them from different angles. …

Spoiler warning for the entire Camelot Rising trilogy: The Guinevere Deception; The Camelot Betrayal; and The Excalibur Curse Trigger warnings: rape, incest, and abuse in fiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CXcQ6h5snev/ The Camelot Rising trilogy by Kiersten White is a rare Arthurian retelling that truly reckons with how evil Merlin is, constantly violating people’s…

CN: Spoilers for Midnight Mass and for my story “The Lost Year;” ableism; sex abuse mention I watched Netflix’s limited series Midnight Mass this weekend and enjoyed its take on vampires. I found the pilot dull but gave the show one more chance and enjoyed the rest. I knew it…

CN: pandemics, death, racism, ableism, mention of murder and rape Today, I published my 75th article on Book Riot. This one is on the Pied Piper of Hamelin. As usual, it makes more sense to read my BR essay before this one. This Medium post compiles and expands on some…