Alysia Abbott

My son has profound autism. And we are still a family Despite what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have you believe, it isn’t autism itself that’s caused us the most harm, but the ways that our experience with the disorder has left us feeling isolated and misu...

An incredibly important, moving essay by my friend Alysia Abbott. Please read and share. @mizabbott.bsky.social

Seriously

Pagan Kennedy at HARVARD BOOK STORE INC | Penguin Random House Canada Pagan Kennedy in conversation with Alysia Abbott

In other news... this Tues., I have the enormous honor of interviewing @pagankennedy.bsky.social for the launch of "The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime" @harvardbookstore.bsky.social. Hers is truly a brilliant book and this will be a fascinating conversation. tinyurl.com/3phyxc5b

It's my biggest complaint with seeing movies in theaters, which I'm otherwise fully committed to. I hate any missing dialogue! And meeting friends in a loud bar or restaurant. Forget it!

As much as I'm still la-la-la-la-la-I-can't-here-you about Monday's THING, I'm kind of loving the extreme cold predicted. It feels fitting— like Hell is freezing over

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Sure, I Voted for Someone Whose Policies Might Kill You, but Now’s the Time to Put Aside Our Differences It’s me, that woman you barely remember from your tenth-grade homeroom who keeps turning up on your Facebook page like a cold sore. Before the elec...

I had some feelings about things I’ve seen on social media in the week since the election. My latest for @mcsweeneys.bsky.social. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/sur...

A quick hey since I'm new. I'm an SF and NY-raised writer now living outside Boston. My memoir FAIRYLAND came out ten years ago and was made into a movie which premiered at Sundance in '23. I teach writing and literature. When not using the left side of my brain I like to draw nekked people.