Selected Writing

The Dead Made Easier: The Narrative Laundering of the Holocaust
The Times of Israel Blogs
A historical essay on Holocaust memory, narrative laundering, and the ways politically inconvenient victims are softened, depoliticized, or made easier for later societies and families to inherit.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-dead-made-easier-the-narrative-laundering-of-the-holocaust/

Weaponized Canines: Dogs in the Concentration Camp System
The Times of Israel Blogs
A piece of Holocaust historiography examining how dogs were used in the Nazi concentration camp system as instruments of terror, control, and bodily domination, and how human beings made animals serve racial and ethno-religious violence and genocide.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/weaponized-canines-dogs-in-the-concentration-camp-system/

The Reputational Economy of Male Harm
Medium
A feminist essay on trauma, narrative control, institutional protection, and the cultural machinery that makes women pay for naming harm.
https://medium.com/@kelseybrickl/the-reputational-economy-of-male-harm-f5fdd86b31e5

The Atlantic Remains Smaller Than Before
Or: Micawber and Sellers Explain the Special Relationship While the Furniture Quietly Catches Fire
A comic transatlantic dialogue in the tradition of Stoppard and Wilde, using Dickens’s Wilkins Micawber and Twain’s Colonel Mulberry Sellers to anatomize Britain, America, empire, class, mobility, decline, optimism, and the comforting lie of cultural sameness.
https://asovereignwound.substack.com/p/the-atlantic-remains-smaller-than

Commentary: Disney disability-policy changes narrow options
Orlando Sentinel
A reported commentary on disability access, institutional policy, and the narrowing of practical options for Disabled families.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/04/commentary-disney-disability-policy-changes-narrow-options/

The Fear of 13 on Broadway: Strong Performances Carry a Script at War with Its Uneven Tone
Medium
A critical essay on Broadway’s The Fear of 13, examining performance, dramaturgy, tonal control, and the ethical demands of representing wrongful conviction, violent crime, and unresolved grief onstage.
https://medium.com/@kelseybrickl/the-fear-of-13-on-broadway-strong-performances-carry-a-script-at-war-with-its-uneven-tone-a2c06236dec8

Grace Pervades, Pravda Lingers
Substack
A critical essay examining David Hare’s Pravda and Grace Pervades through the lenses of media, performance, reputation, and the public construction of reality: how narratives are made, settled, softened, and contested in theatre and cultural memory.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-194811208

Finding God at Coney Island
Substack
A comic first-person essay in which a solo trip to Coney Island becomes part accessibility case study, part New York vignette, and part minor spiritual episode by the water.
https://asovereignwound.substack.com/p/finding-god-on-coney-island

Mom-Shamed by the God-Bringer: A faithless museum detour becomes an unexpectedly tender encounter with Mary.
Substack
A sharp, irreverent personal essay in which a London museum detour leads to a witty confrontation with the Madonna and Child, blending maternal self-doubt, art history, and secular grace.
https://open.substack.com/pub/asovereignwound/p/mom-shamed-by-the-god-bringer?r=6wnr1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

“Never, Never, Never” and the Girl on the Left: Bernadette Devlin and Ian Paisley With Media as Judge and Jury
Research Paper
A research paper analyzing how media framing shaped public perception during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Available via Scribd: https://www.scribd.com/document/974695134/Media-Framing-of-Ian-Paisley-and-Bernadette-Devlin-during-the-Troubles-in-the-North-of-Ireland

The Second of the Two World Wars
Substack
A poem reckoning with the brutality of the Second World War across multiple belligerents, and with the impossibility of reducing mass suffering to neat moral lines.
https://asovereignwound.substack.com/p/the-second-of-the-two-world-wars