About Me and Writing Highlights

I’m a fiction and nonfiction writer with cerebral palsy. I’ve been a regular contributor at Book Riot since January 2018 (and a senior contributor since December 2022). My interests include literature, literary and cultural criticism, critical theory, feminism, and disability theory.

I am not a journalist, and I never have been or have wanted to be a journalist. I am politically active about human rights and social justice.

My 2009 undergrad essay on Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness is often taught in high school and college alongside Le Guin’s novel. It’s even been cited in a dissertation. I presented it at Bridgewater State College (now University)’s Undergraduate Literary Conference in spring 2010. My work is often referenced in books, academic journals, dissertations, and theses around the world.

My essays on ableist language have been cited in style guides and a college course on Shakespeare. I frequently apply literary and critical theory concepts, like Freud’s uncanny, Kristeva’s abjection, and the Ubi sunt motif, to disability and ableism.

Leslie Tate interviewed me about my writing in 2023.

All my work on Sigmund Freud’s “The Uncanny” is collected below:

Lapointe full works on Freud’s The Uncanny and ableism Download

All of my published work is free to read on the main menu of my WordPress site.