Lauren Quinn

Writer & high school teacher / @hazlitt @guernicamag @believermag @latimes / #amquerying YA novel

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

Hello… tap, tap… anyone there?

For the folks still on this app, I wrote about the time I was in a school shooting while pregnant. It was… intense.

[Hazlitt @Hazlitt]

“My mind did a thousand small mathematics in that moment: Should I leap into active-shooter mode, or wait for a PA announcement?” Read Lauren Quinn’s (@LLcoolquinn) account of guiding her students through the terrifying nuances of a school shooting: https://t.co/7Jt6wZZ9YA

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@KayMarieW2 Working on an article about this and would love to hear your experience! DM me if you’re up for sharing ✌️

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@LooveIm Working on an article about this and would love to hear your experience! DM me if you’re up for sharing✌️

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@OliviaMesser It did for me, at 36! Keep the faith 💪

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@NatalieLima09 Who actually have the time and energy to mobilize!

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@girlziplocked @djkgamc Like you literally can’t work for at least six weeks (longer with a C section) bc you’re still bleeding. That shit’s not paid.

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@girlziplocked “But I’m a DJ/rapper/played in some influential punk band 20 years ago…” Bruh. That shit won’t pay the hospital bill… Almost procreated with a dude like that and am thankful everyday that I dodged that bullet!

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@girlziplocked Omg yes!! And they fully don’t understand the financial aspect, that bc of unpaid maternity leave and lack of childcare infrastructure, they need to be financially solvent in order to show up as an equal partner.

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@NatalieLima09 Medical grade all the way. IS Clinical and Skin Better have some really elegant ones, but they’re $$$. RX from a derm is way cheaper and super effective

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@realgirl_fieri I think we’re all too busy and exhausted to write it 🙃

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@frecklywench @BullCityPress Great title!

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@NatalieLima09 Huge milestone, congrats!!

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@realgirl_fieri Made my hair lose most of its curl and gave me chronic hypertension

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

“The only desire for membership is a desire to stop writing” ??

This is off on so many levels, the co-opting of AA traditions being one of them.

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@Morgan_J_Talty Not a mention a very strange and questionable co-opting of AA

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

“Right now, as my body is at its lowest point, I am at the height of my powers.”

👏 🎂

HBD @SFdirewolf

[Alice Wong 王美華 @SFdirewolf]

💀Death is my intimate shadow partner.

It is a disability intimacy.

I wrote for @TIME about my relationship with mortality as someone who just turned 50 as a disabled person.

Shit has been rough but I’m still fucking here

https://t.co/wBAPMvMAyh

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

“I dreamed of a black-haired woman who would grow enormous and burst through the roof and destroy our house—that is, me—if I let her inside.”

🔥 essay on my fav punctuation

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@NatalieLima09 Same!!

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

Without funding and supportive services for folk with disabilities (and their caregivers) AFTER birth, it’s really just one more justification for controlling women’s bodies.

Literally have an essay about this coming out

[Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti]

Anti-abortion groups' new slogan for why women should be force to carry nonviable pregnancies to term?

"Disabled Lives Matter"

Truly unconscionable.

https://t.co/VhZEniIrZn

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@juliamarygibson @Hazlitt Just logged in for the first time in ages. We’re in Asia! We’re great. Didn’t get around to making a Christmas card this year but appreciated getting yours. Hope you’re well!

[Lauren Quinn @LLcoolquinn]

@AudreyLancho THE BEAST IN ME / Literary YA