Like Bruce Willis, I Have Aphasia. Here’s What Life Is Like With This Incurable Disorder.
Published in HuffPost. It has gotten to the point where I often just avoid interactions requiring me to speak.
Inequity in Maternal Health Care Left Me With Undiagnosed Postpartum PTSD
Co-published with Parents Magazine. The condition impacts up to 17 percent of birthing people, but it's often underdiagnosed and undertreated, especially among lower-income patients.
I Escaped the Trauma of Homelessness—Only to Face Your White Savior Complex
Co-published with Mother Jones. But I am determined to become something other than your project.
Facing Trauma When Your Parent Is Homeless
Co-published with Defector. On the anniversary of her mother’s passing, Autumn Stenberg shares how she continues to cope with “the weight of the responsibility of my mom having …
The Trouble with Experts
Co-published with Columbia Journalism Review. The Web allows us to question authority in new ways.
37,000 U.S. Veterans Are Homeless. I Was One of Them.
Co-published with Newsweek. So many veterans who leave the tangle of war end up on America's streets, still fighting daily for their survival.
Medicaid Has Been Good to My Body, But It Has Abandoned My Brain
Co-published with the Chicago Reader. I want choice, not a fistful of unhelpful options from the cruel system we make poor people navigate to access health care.
Working Single Mom Shares Challenges of Motherhood A Year Into Pandemic
Co-published with The Double Shift Podcast. It's been a year since the COVID shutdowns. A single mom in Oxford, MS shares her moving story on what the …
The Superlative of All Alone Is All
Co-published with the Los Angeles Review of Books. Jennifer Michael Hecht relates George Wileman's new photo series to thoughts of pandemic isolation and the specter of …
The Pandemic Is Making Mental Health Harder for Black People Already Struggling to Be Well
Co-published with The Crisis. For the one in five Black people who were already living with mental health issues, the COVID-19 crisis has upended the normalcy that …
Concern Over Suicide Rates During COVID-19: There is Still Help Available
Co-published with Erie News Now. During COVID-19, there is concern that the suicide rate may increase due to stress, anxiety, and other factors.
Coronavirus Is Disrupting Medication Supply Lines — and I’m Terrified
Co-published with The Independent. A friend whose usual co-payment for antidepressants was 90 cents was recently told by his pharmacist to pay $159.