KNEE BRACE PRESS

A place for stories about chronic illness, disability, mental health, and neurodivergence.

suicidal ideation

  • A white person with short, light brown hair and black, rectangular glasses smiles with their mouth closed. They wear a black T-shirt. The background is cream colored.

    Hostile Architecture

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    In their first poem for Knee Brace Press, Taylor Kovach writes about self-hatred and passive ideation.

  • A white woman with dark hair tied back into a bun. She wears a blue dress with a black belt. She is speaking or singing in front of a music stang.

    Suicide Simulation

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    Imagine a world where suicide can be simulated through virtual reality. This is the context of Ericka Russell’s short story, Suicide Simulation, and the basis for the ethics the main character must grapple with.

  • A Black person with white-rimmed glasses smiles widely with their eyes closed. They are holding their book, DEAR PHILOMENA by Mugabi Byenkya, and are surrounded by a circle of light.

    An interview with Mugabi Byenkya

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    Memoirist and magical realism author Mugabi Byenkya writes for themselves. Or, more accurately, the angsty, confused, Black, Ugandan-Rwandan-Nigerian, disabled, queer, polygender, and neurodivergent little human they used to be and still are.