Rey Katz: Writing
Rey’s clips cover LGBTQ rights, queer literature, martial arts, and writing craft.
Featured Piece
POPSUGAR — How Martial Arts Helped Me Accept My Nonbinary Body
“I used to unconsciously hold myself in a defensive posture: shoulders hunched forward to minimize my body, a scowl on my face to keep strangers at a distance. But when I threw people in aikido, I stood tall.”
Recent Work
February 2024—The Author Stack—How to Write About Trans People With Respect
January 2024—True Magazine—What If I’m Right About Being Trans
November 2023—Clinch: A Martial Arts Literary Magazine—Please Hit Girls (When They Ask You To)
September 2023—Open Letters Review—Review of Places We Left Behind by Jennifer Lang
May 2023—Open Letters Review—Review of American Breakdown by Jennifer Lunden
March 2023 — POPSUGAR — How Martial Arts Helped Me Accept My Nonbinary Body
November 2022—BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog—How to Write Respectfully About Nonbinary People
August 2022—Drizzle Review—Reading Round Up (Review of Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki)
June 2022—Drizzle Review—Reading Round Up (Review of The Disordered Cosmos by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein)
December 2021—Orion Magazine’s Place Where You Live—Ponkapoag Pond, Boston, MA
December 2021—Catapult—
Writing Nonbinary Characters
September 2021—Massive Science—When A Person Detransitions, Pressure and Threats-Not Regret- Are the Cause
September 2021—The Postscript—Trans People Are Experts In Our Own Experience
July 2021—Northern Woodlands Magazine’s The Outside Story— River Otters-Strong Swimmers
May 2021—Drizzle Review—Reading Round-Up (Review of Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor)