"The following is not a record of what I found." What do we destroy that we cannot see? Don't miss this tremendous new hermit crab #fiction from @libbyiscomplex.bsky.social | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/libb...

My piece RE: autistic grief is up at the @autisticadvocacy.org blog!

Autistic Grief: You’re Not Doing It Wrong

Written by Libby Banks for ASAN. This piece is for the autistic people who have been told, by themselves or others, that they are grieving incorrectly.

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This is probably my favorite thing I have ever written, and I am SO happy it found a home at HAD.

HAD@havehashad.com · 4mo ago

amazing linguistic recursion today from Libby Banks "I reach for the word— mirror [window] window [mirror] Glass reflects. Glass transmits. The brain knows they're the same before language splits them." https://www.havehashad.com/9pdcw

I signed the contract for my first book, Navigating a Hostile Mental Health Care System: The Contextual Systems Therapy Field Guide, today. It will include 12 original interventions for neurodivergent practitioners and clients navigating a mental health system that pathologizes survival.

Updated pinned post! Leftist/elder millennial/autistic/chronically ill/practitioner-researcher/writer. Writing and other current projects: www.libbyiscomplex.com.

RE: autistic pattern recognition, abuse, and narratives around that comfort, confuse, and distort. CW: Intimate partner violence/abuse, sexual assault (statistical mention, not depicted), coercive control, gaslighting, body dysmorphic disorder, trauma.

The Signs Were Deliberately Obscured

Autistic people, along with other disabled people, experience significantly higher rates of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, financial exploitation, emotional abuse, and coercive control tha...

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Piece up at @hfr.bsky.social! heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/03/12/u...

Haunted Passages Short Fiction Hybrid: “The Cartographer of Unobservable Roads” by Libby Banks

A PEDESTRIAN GUIDE TO THE ALTERNATIVE ROUTE SYSTEM Seventh Edition (Revised) Compiled by: Dr. Rachel Wallace, Urban GeographerPublisher: Small Compass PressPrice: Free ROUTE 1: THE GRIEF-FOLD …

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Powerful CNF by @libbyiscomplex.bsky.social on Venus de Milo, disability & recognising wholeness. "No limbs to perform emotional labor. No hands to comply. Just pure, uncompromising presence. Liberation looks like letting go of what the system demands you carry." wordgathering.com/vol19/issue2...

My student loans got forgiven through Public Service Loan Forgiveness today, and I'm beyond happy and in a little shock.

My piece "What Venus de Milo Taught Me About ‘Broken’ Bodies" is up at @wordgathering.bsky.social. Thrilled to be in this issue - go check out the whole Winter 2025-2026 edition!

Have a new piece that will be up tomorrow in the new issue of @wordgathering.bsky.social - truly honored and VERY excited!

A piece about dissociation, autistic masking, and their interplay.

Thrown Under a Fire Blanket

RE: autistic masking and dissociation

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Y'all, within two weeks I'm going to go from living in a house with eleven other people (and nine dogs) to one with one other person (my partner) and three dogs. The relief is PALPABLE.

www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/pacing-as-... - wrote about pacing and dynamic disabilities and scarcity mindsets.

That entire Halftime special was a celebration of community, love, music, diversity and Puerto Rico and very deliberate middle finger to colonization and white supremacy.

New for @teenvogue.com (!) The young immigrant women workers of Lawrence won the 1912 Bread and Roses strike because of solidarity—which is also exactly how the people of Minnesota built the durable and inspiring resistance network we all saw on January 23, 2026. www.teenvogue.com/story/from-m...

From Minneapolis to “Bread and Roses,” Workers Have Always Fought Back

Times and conditions may change, but the struggle between labor and capital continues.

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I attempted to go to an ICE patrol training here in LA this morning and they had to turn most of us away because of capacity issues and even as I was leaving I saw a ton more folks showing up so that’s how well their attempts to scare everyone away are going, even in the face of murder

ICE are Gestapo. ICE are domestic terrorists. ICE are criminals serving a criminal. ICE are empowered abusers. ICE are cold blooded murderers.

2 years ago today, I published this RE: how my haunting dog helps me ground.

Grounding with Mabel: Lessons from a Grumpy Little Dog

Grounding prescriptions crumble under PDA’s gravity.

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I wrote about Piranesi and dissociative architecture.

The House I Already Knew: Reading Piranesi as Dissociative Architecture

Note: This essay discusses Piranesi’s central mystery and transformation.

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I wrote about how my self-acceptance affected my marriage for the blog today.

Crumbs Before Vows

He was washing dishes, his shoulders moving in a rhythm that I had always read as concentration.

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Make it viral.

www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/still-i-be... - a piece about therapy, being a therapist, and the complexity of working in "helping professions" that are built on harm and care.

www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/when-self-... - wrote about self-fairness and self-compassion.

Watching It’s a Wonderful Life, everyone’s favorite holiday movie about a monopolist landlord’s Christmas being made worse by radical mutual aid. (Genuinely adore this film - one of my mildest takes.)

CW: parental loss. Tomorrow is the anniversary of my dad's death, and as sometimes happens with hard anniversaries, my body knew before my brain did. Resharing this piece about what he meant to me and how loss changed me in ways expected and unexpected. www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/the-timing...

The Quiet That Wasn't Vigilance

Filed under: grief logic and cellular loyalty.

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www.libbyiscomplex.com/p/cinderella... New piece discussing power, tactical intelligence, and survival.

Very excited/honored/thrilled to have a piece up at Disappointed Housewife today - this is my first-ever lit mag publication.

The Disappointed Housewife~Submissions always open!@offbeatlit.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Excerpts from a very special dictionary this morning, by Libby Banks. And guess what. This is her first publication! We're honored to give her the stage today. thedisappointedhousewife.com/2025/12/02/a...

This is hard to share. Relocated to New Mexico from Texas 6mo ago for Wyatt’s food truck/safety/need for more familial support, Houston house still unsold despite $50k price drop. Old mortgage + new business + medical costs = underwater. Raising $6k to sustain until house sells. gofund.me/6b47f89ff

Donate to Help Libby & Wyatt Stay Afloat During Transition, organized by Libby Banks

What happened: Six months ago, we made a big move: we relocated to New M… Libby Banks needs your support for Help Libby & Wyatt Stay Afloat During Transition

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