Katie Reilly, Author at Autostraddle

Katie Reilly

Writer

Joined A-Team: 2022

Articles written: 13

About Katie Reilly

Katie is a disabled queer writer, creator, and activist who spends her days fighting online misogyny, hate, and disinfo and her evening playing with her dog, designing for her Etsy, reading 5 books at once, or collecting too many kinds of tea. Find her across social media at @imkatiereilly. After a brief time writing about and working in the music industry, Katie became a full time activist, leading campaigns on online disinfo and extremism, climate change and pollution, Indigenous rights, corporate accountability, media representation and accountability, and gender equality. Her proudest moments as an activist include working alongside leaders at Standing Rock to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline, working on the massive Peoples Climate Marches, and collaborating with GLAAD to ban deadnaming and misgendering on TikTok. Katie has been published in Teen Vogue and LGBTQ Nation.

Katie Reilly's Work Elsewhere on the Internet

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/texas-republican-leadership-failed-disabled-people https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/04/ron-desantis-remember-first-rule-disney-evil-never-wins/ https://www.katiereilly.com/post/you-might-have-able-privilege-if

All Posts on Autostraddle

A collage of six images of queer disabled people of various races and genders, all dressed fashionably

Queer Fashion

19 Disabled LGBT Fashion Icons Defying Stereotypes

a photo of a setup of crafting supplies with overexposure rainbows layered on top of it

A+

The Price of Perfectionism: Chronic Illness, Unemployment, and Starting Over

A beach at sunset with an instagram filter over it to look like a vintage postcard.

Sad in a Prettier Place

A woman wears glasses and a mask as well as a beanie and winter coat and is outside in the cold

Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving, I’m Moving to Warmer Weather in an Attempt To Survive

A Getaway House cabin, which looks like a small room with a bed, kitchen, and wood panel walls. It also has lots of windows.

Travel

Consider Cabin Rental Company Getaway for a Lowkey, Short-Term Queer Vacation

The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

LGBT Book Reviews

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “The Future Is Disabled” Should Be Required Reading

a plate of red sauced ravioli. a pair of legs are emerging from one of the ravioli with a pair of crutches. there's also a mobility cane and a set of legs with a leg brace and crutches.

First Person

Scenes From a Jersey Diner

The Golden Season by Madeline Kay Sneed features a sweeping landscape of West Texas and a blue sky with clouds.

LGBT Book Reviews

“The Golden Season” Is a Queer Love Letter to West Texas

A watercolor of a turquoise blue sky with dark blue clouds and a white textured page. In front of it are the words "Disability Pride Month Roundtable" in all caps and "care, celebrate, collective, fight" in stamped black lettering.

Community

Disability Pride Month 2022 Roundtable: Care, Celebrate, Collective, Fight

A pattered collage in yellow and blue that has four book covers layered over it: Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare (which is swirled in black and white), More Than Organs by Kay Ulanday Barrett (which has orange bold type over a navy blue background), The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me by Keah Brown (which has pink and yellow lettering a photo of the author Keah Brown, who is a black woman), and Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (which has the words Care Work in olive green stamped font and beige and orange watercolor coloring in the background)

Book Lists

12 Books to Read to Be a Better Ally to Disabled People This Disability Pride Month

Two pills with diagonals across are rolling against an orange and pink background (the orange and pink lighting is also making the pills look pink)

Health

Medication Abortion 101

a white person's legs are seen walking down a set of old stairs, and she is wearing sneakers and holding a pink cane and wearing black leggings. there are two red flower stickers on the image

I Have To Choose Between Being Disabled and Queer

Carmen Phillips On 24 of the Best Songs by Queer Artists in 2023 "Float + On My Mama Hive, we rise!! (chasing one with the other is literally how I spent my summer…"

ThisCharmingAnd On Into the A+ Advice Box #94: I Don’t Think My Queer Relative Should Get Married "Chiming in on Q4, too! I also deal with PMDD and YOU DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE PERIODS IF YOU…"

KatieRainyDay On “Eileen” Doesn’t Deserve To Be Called “Carol” for Psychos "A great review of a movie I am no longer going to be seeing! If it comes up on a…"

B On Into the A+ Advice Box #94: I Don’t Think My Queer Relative Should Get Married "Seconding this!!"

B On Into the A+ Advice Box #94: I Don’t Think My Queer Relative Should Get Married "Q4: have you looked into PMDD (pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder)? For some folks, rather than having “regular” PMS, their body reacts…"

Kesiena On Into the A+ Advice Box #94: I Don’t Think My Queer Relative Should Get Married "Q4: How are we dealing with depression due to our cycles?? The answer is with anti-depressants! A lot of people…"

X On “Eileen” Doesn’t Deserve To Be Called “Carol” for Psychos "Comparing this film to Carol is an insult to Carol. Eileen was queer-baiting and nothing more. In this day and…"

Drew Burnett Gregory On “Eileen” Doesn’t Deserve To Be Called “Carol” for Psychos "I’d probably say it’s still worth watching for Anne Hathaway and some of the photography. But the potential for it…"