My Name is DL...

I am a writer and a multi-media artist.

My advocacy, essays, fiction, and art focus on the lives, health, and relationships of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people and the systems we exist within. Learn more.

Anti-Ableism Advocacy

Advocacy from 2025:

How the Trump Administration and Conservative Lawmakers Are Attacking Disabled Communities (Essay)

Advocacy from 2024:

Ableism as Animal (Monologue Series)
Mad at/in Public Health Education (Essay Collection)
Structural Ableism in Public Health and Health Care: Suggestions for Health Researchers and Policymakers Engaging with Our Article (Essay)
Structural ableism in public health and healthcare: a definition and conceptual framework (Peer-Reviewed Article)
Public Health Conversation Starter About Structural Ableism at Boston University School of Public Health (Video Interview)
Interview about Structural Ableism and Intersectionality for the Intersectionalia Newsletter (Written Interview)

Advocacy from 2023:

Disability and Health State Utility Values: A Framework for Assessing Ableism and Equity (Magazine Article)

Personal Essays

Essays from 2025:

Essays from 2024:

By Not Acting to Stop the Genocide in Palestine, Many U.S. Christian Churches Are Choosing Whiteness and Colonization Over Faith

Essays from 2023:

A Call for an Immediate Humanitarian Ceasefire in Gaza From a Public Health and Disability Advocacy Perspective

Fiction

Fiction from 2025:

Bathtub Full of Shattered Fortress (Short Story)

Poetry

Poetry from 2025:

cross & crown (Poem Series)

midnight poems, 4-8 (Poem Series)

Poetry from 2024:

hey, real rider, i am still sure (Poem Series)

midnight poems, 1-3 (Poem Series)

infinity everywhere, for the rest of my life (Poem Series)

blood blister on a new moon screaming this time i’ll be ready (Poem Series)

Multi-Media Art

Art from 2025:

4motorcycleman (OnlyFans / Adult Content)

real rider rhythm (Poetry on SoundCloud)