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1 Art Therapy Kit Kavanagh-Ryan , 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , January 2018;
1 Kitchen Prep i "I have done this before", Kit Kavanagh-Ryan , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;
1 Mirrors i "Ink blooms in skin", Kit Kavanagh-Ryan , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;
1 Wordspill i "F-sharp in my mouth", Kit Kavanagh-Ryan , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;
1 Left Song i "She smiled glass through sunshine, which", Kit Kavanagh-Ryan , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;
1 Words and Spills: Disability, Sexuality and Cripping Your Poetry Kit Kavanagh-Ryan , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May vol. 80 no. 2017;

'What am I doing?

'Writing while crip is complicated.

'Not the act itself, not always. My hands work most of the time, and I have access to screen readers and dictation software. But writing crip is messy and awkward and bodied and mine, because no ‘experience of disability is universal’ (Kafer 2013, 34), no matter how much anyone wants it to be.' (Introduction)
1 Life Prep i "I'm sorry for the questions", Kit Kavanagh-Ryan , 2017 single work poetry
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 59)
1 Permanent Problems Kit Kavanagh-Ryan , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 76 no. 2 2017; (p. 50-58)

The narrator describes her experiences with spastic diplegia and cerebral palsy: the unsolicited questions and pity, the condescending love of her father, and the plain insults of young children that she ultimately prefers.
1 Stitch Sonnets i "The surgeon plays cat’s cradle with my guts.", Kit Kavanagh-Ryan , 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 76 no. 2 2016;
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