Disability Magick at the End of the World

this is not a craft essay

note: while this essay goes into no details, it does refer to essays that briefly mention gun violence; a few images from an Epstein victims’s diary are…

Feb 24 • Karrie Higgins

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Baby Grows Up

she's your baby! she's your little girl!

Feb 4 • Karrie Higgins

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I woke up in the middle of the night to write what I redacted back into my Epstein files post

… and I think it says so much that I redacted it at all, in a post about how I keep being asked to redact myself from my own story.

Feb 1 • Karrie Higgins

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the elite are made ordinary and the ordinary are made elite: on not knowing how to write memoir anymore as a survivor in the age of Epstein

I do not know how to write memoir anymore, because all holiday season, while my timeline was busy un-redacting the Epstein Files, I was redacting my…

Feb 1 • Karrie Higgins

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January 2026

Epistemic Injustice is a Nonconsensual Relationship with God

I have to perform reasonable doubt in my own memories to be believed.

Jan 13 • Karrie Higgins

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November 2025

The Strange Flowers, or the essay that ruined my life

originally published in The Manifest-Station, a Notable in Best American Essays 2015

Nov 12, 2025 • Karrie Higgins

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August 2025

breaking generational curses when the curse is a crypt

Days before my mother’s cremation, I emailed my cousin to help me break a curse.

Aug 12, 2025 • Karrie Higgins

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on paracosms and becoming parents to our parents

Last night, my mother — who has been slowly dying from end-stage pulmonary fibrosis — got transferred to ICU when her oxygen plummeted.

Aug 2, 2025 • Karrie Higgins

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June 2025

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hope is a memory

“Memory produces hope in the same way that amnesia produces despair,' the theologian Walter Brueggeman noted.

Mar 12, 2025 • Karrie Higgins

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February 2025

[secret] missives from past Karrie, or unpacking a [(nesting doll) of (secrets)] from my memory gaps

reposted

Feb 11, 2025 • Karrie Higgins

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January 2025

CBT, wellness influencers, and the criminalization of neurodivergence: why we should take RFK at his word

I published this post originally on November 16, 2024.

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