das wunderbare phyllmagazine hat meinen text ‘nach dem piks ist vor dem piks’ zusammen mit einer tollen illustration von Sophie Smeets in Issue 0:: Courage veröffentlicht.

In this blog post for Interscetions Lit Magazine I talk about disability and the experience of internalised ableism and which role language plays in all of it.

“You don’t look disabled”, “Oh, so it’s not a real disability”, or euphemisms for disability like special needs, handicapped, or differently abled all question disability and its seriousness…”

My non-fiction peice ‘cumulus’ was published in the wonderful Rhodora Magazine. It’s all about clouds and fear and the pain of that first injection of insulin; the pain that still carries through sometimes.

A hundred years ago, the research that led to the discovery of insulin began. Without the discovery of insulin, people with diabetes would still die of diabetic ketoacidosis. Read the whole story of the discovery and why people still die from lack of insulin today in my new blog post over on Intersections Lit Magazine.

blood leaks/

this needle’s puncture dissolves in a scarlet marble
still
on my skin
before it follows
gravity in a single stream,
the carmine glows in unfaded clarity
as if nothing had been added

– insulin doesn’t have a colour.

In this personal essay published by the wonderful Dissonance Magazine, I describe my life after being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and how it has progressed and affected depression and anxiety:

“I stay in a spacious six-bed dormitory in a pier-side hostel in Brighton when, upon my return from the Seven Sisters…”

A fun little recipe on how Christmas dinner feels for a person living with diabetes.

My creative nonfiction text about life with a chronic illness.