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Kelly J. Baker

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Disability Acts

Wrenches at Your Insides

Writing memoirs helps us understand both horror and hope in our own lives.

Oct 30, 2020

Wrenches at Your Insides

Oct 30, 2020

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Disability Acts

Happy

A poem about depression in a world on fire.

Jul 24, 2020

Happy

Jul 24, 2020

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Disability Acts

The Honesty of Halloween

Halloween was that moment out of time that allowed me to be anyone but me.

Oct 31, 2019

The Honesty of Halloween

Oct 31, 2019

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Disability Acts

Failing Perfection

This is and excerpt from Kelly’s new essay collection, Final Girl: And Other Essays on Grief, Trauma, and Mental Illness, which is out…

Feb 14, 2019

Failing Perfection

Feb 14, 2019

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Disability Acts

Being Afraid, Becoming Brave

I once had an impoverished definition of bravery. Luckily, I no longer do.

Oct 30, 2018

Being Afraid, Becoming Brave

Oct 30, 2018

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Disability Acts

On Writing and Depression

Depression can take away a writer’s most precious tools: her words, and her desire to write them.

Sep 25, 2018

On Writing and Depression

Sep 25, 2018

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Disability Acts

The Persistent Hum of Anxiety

My anxiety had taken over my brain, and I didn't want to let it.

Aug 24, 2018

The Persistent Hum of Anxiety

Aug 24, 2018

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Disability Acts

Simmering Anger

Who would I be without my anger? I don't know.

Aug 14, 2018

Simmering Anger

Aug 14, 2018

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Human Parts

Genre Fiction Saved My Life

I gave up many things for graduate school: long blonde hair, contact lenses, the ease at which I smiled, and popular fiction. Training to…

Mar 31, 2015

Genre Fiction Saved My Life

Mar 31, 2015

Kelly J. Baker

Kelly J. Baker

Writer: religion, disability, mental disorders, higher ed, gender, & pop culture. Now writing endings & apocalypses and pandemic motherhood.

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