Below is a running list of my writings, both academic and otherwise.
An Introduction to Medical Anthropology (ThoughtCo)
It’s (Not) in your Head: When Bodies Defy Logic (Nursing Clio)
Why I Refuse to Armchair Diagnose (Medium)
Texas Must do Better for Texans with Disabilities (San Antonio News-Express, also appeared in Waco Tribune Herald and the Austin American-Statesman)
Why Not Focus on Masculinity after Mass Shootings? (San Antonio News-Express)
Mental Illness has become a Scapegoat for Mass Shootings (Houston Chronicle)
Let’s Stop Blaming Mental Illness for Mass Shootings (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, also appeared in the Austin-American Statesman)
After Shootings, Stop Blaming Mental Illness (San Antonio News-Express)
Stop Blaming Mental Illness for Mass Shootings (Amarillo Globe-News)
Are We Misdiagnosing the Cause of Gun Violence? (Texas Monthly)
Police Need Training to Recognize People with Disabilities (Austin-American Statesman)
Police Must Learn to Deal with People with Disabilities (San Antonio News-Express)
Care Gone Wrong: Bad Moms, Fake Disabilities, and Imagined Illnesses (Nursing Clio)
A Death in the Family: Disability Activism, Mourning, and Diagnostic Kinship (Disability Studies Quarterly)
The Anti-Vaccine Movement, Bad Science, and the Rise of Fake News (Nursing Clio)
When Risk, Doubt, and Difference Converge: A Review Essay (Somatosphere)
The Enclosed Case (Somatosphere)
Five Way to Support Your Kids, from a Special Needs Sibling (The Mighty)
Top of the Heap (Somatosphere)
In the Community, But Alone (BLOOM)
Disability was Home: From Big Sister to Anthropologist (BLOOM)
Other Media:
Interview for Texas Standard radio piece: “Half of People Killed by Police in the US May Have a Disability”
