Profile

Hello, hello friends! My name’s Annastasia. I’m a 26-year-old mixed-race black cis-woman, proudly disabled with type 2 Spinal Muscular Atrophy. I hail from the ice-y state of Minnesota, but I was born in and lived in Long Island, New York until I was five. On May 8th, 2019, I finally completed my undergrad, and officially started my journey into the professional writing world! This blog was made as a space for me to share my writing and talk about my experiences, both as a writer and in the community.

In my craft, I write genre fiction, creative non-fiction, and poetry. I got my start writing in fandom (mostly in the gaming and anime circles), so I also still love to be involved in the community and write/engage with meta concerning our weird little culture. Since I was fifteen, I’ve been writing and revising a YA novel called Cynical Chaos. It’s my main project, and what a large majority of my posts will be about. If you like angsty, angry teens, woc protags, badass aliens, and government conspiracies, all wrapped up in disability metaphors, you’ve come to the right place.

In fact, all of my writing deals with themes of disability, but with a focus on my experiences existing among abled audiences. Throughout my young adult life, it’s been my experience that disabled people are often refused the right to their negative emotions. Instead, our lives are often spent as performances, making sure the abled people we live around are comfortable in our presence. If a disabled person shows any kind of anger toward their situation, toward the ableism they experience day to day, often times they’re written off as “bitter” or “ungrateful”, or even a drag to be around. On the other side, if we’re not miserable enough, or even confident in ourselves and our disabilities, then clearly we’re not as disabled as we say, and we’re just faking it for those sweet, sweet benefits (spoiler alert: they’re not sweet).

My work serves as an outlet for these denied emotions. It’s a lot of raw anger, pain, honesty, and unapologetic self-love. This is my approach to any work I do regarding my identities. Embracing darkness and the negative stereotypes associated with my communities gives me empowerment. I love every second of being an angry black woman and a crippled monster, and I’ll make sure to let you know it.

That’s about all I have to say right now. Please stick around and make yourself comfortable. Check out my portfolio, or drop me a message if you want to know more about me and my writing. I made myself sound scary, but I promise it’s only on the page ;p It’s very nice to meet you!