My Name is DL...
I am a multi-media artist.
My art is about capturing and engaging with patterns in the world that might otherwise go unnoticed. Learn more.
Multi-Media Art
Art from 2025:
real rider rhythm (Poetry on SoundCloud)
Fiction
Fiction from 2025:
Bathtub Full of Shattered Fortress (Short Story)
Poetry
Poetry from 2025:
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)
Personal Essays
Essays from 2025:
what i learned from my latest (involuntary) trip to the psychiatric hospital.
my decision (as a white american) to stop paying federal taxes to resist war and genocide.
a white woman confronting herself as the abuser and abused: an incomplete reflection.
Essays from 2024:
Essays from 2023:
Anti-Ableism Advocacy
Advocacy from 2025:
Advocacy from 2024:
Ableism as Animal (Monologue Series)
Mad at/in Public Health Education (Essay Collection)
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: