Writing and Media

Essays and interviews on structural ableism and the design of accommodation systems.

Writing

Why Your Accommodation Process Is Costing You Top Talent

Article — LinkedIn

An analysis of how workplace accommodation systems drift from collaborative problem-solving into adversarial compliance, and what effective institutional design requires instead.

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Ableism Nearly Killed Me — Recognizing It Saved My Life

Essay — Medium (Human Parts)

An account of living with Just-Right obsessive-compulsive disorder, navigating failed accommodations in two institutions, and reframing those failures as structural rather than personal.

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Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Karin Boxer

Written interview — Biopolitical Philosophy

A wide-ranging conversation on moral responsibility, structural ableism in academia, accommodation failures, and the institutional norms that shape exclusion.

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Media

Understanding Ableism

Podcast Interview — Start Where You Are – Stop Thinking, Start Doing (Kim Lloyd)

A conversation on ableism as a structural belief system, how it shapes workplace and academic expectations, and the costs of accommodation failure for both disabled people and institutions.

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Adding Structure to the Interactive Process

Video Interview — Disability Idea (with Myles Wallace, Peak Performers)

A conversation on why the ADA interactive process fails in practice and how structural redesign — including employer-led identification of accommodations, consultation with appropriate expertise, and structured iteration and follow-up — changes outcomes.

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Karin Speaks to Morgan About “Just-Right” OCD

Audio Conversation · StoryCorps (More About Us Community Disability Visibility Project)

A conversation on navigating academia, publish-or-perish norms, and faculty accommodation gaps.

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