Chapbook
FOREIGN BODY
Katie’s nonfiction chapbook Foreign Body is out now with Future Tense Books.
Get your copy here.
In Foreign Body, Katie takes the reader on an odyssey of gynecological misadventures, exploring what a sexual and reproductive future looks like for her retrofitted body, as she navigates the absurdities of gender roles, religion, and the healthcare system.
“So long as my vag works, I can pass for normal, I’d thought. I could be normal, more or less, since a woman’s body is her net worth. If my uterus contains a pre-human, I’m not dead yet, was my new rationale. That’s why I no longer bothered with the condoms: no one gets what it’s like to have a body desecrated, barely gripping onto basic functions. Control, my ass. Decisions, what’s the point?”
