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Kathryn Way Bitch Mag Cover Letter KATHRYN WAY - FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION - I dropped out of college because someone farted in class and nobody laughed but me. I wanted to be an actor but wasn't prepared for the pretentious self-seriousness of the Theatre Department. We had a class called “Math for Liberal Arts Majors” and a class called “Emotional Exploration.” In tai chi class, littered with white empaths in dreadlocks, a student ripped ass so profoundly that it sounded like someone dropped an armful of dictionaries down the stairs. I collapsed in a fit of laughter because I am not made of wood. My professor barrels down the studio, barking, “You think it’s funny that he pushed his body to the physical limit?” Sagely, I retort, “...yeah.” She asks me to leave class, and I do. I literally never go back. It was a classic $30,000 prank on Sallie Mae, but it was a moral imperative. I move to Chicago to be a comedian because I am clinically incapable of taking myself this seriously. Living in Chicago, I called myself a woman for the first time and it felt foreign in my mouth. I was 18 and spit it out in a panic like I misspoke. Paranoia consumed me like someone would call me out on still being a girl. I felt the same way a year later about calling myself a comedian. Someone might jump out behind a tree and taze me for appropriating this term I didn’t deserve. It felt like the world around me didn’t give me permission. The same lack of permission haunts me when timidly calling myself a writer. Imposter syndrome follows me as I write for My Gay Houston, my city’s LGBTQIA tourism publication. The absence of a college degree is an insistent fly buzzing in my ear as my first article appears in print, in the August issue of Outsmart Magazine. Currently working on my first piece for the Houston Chronicle, I am often deflated by a vacuum in credentials. As a comedian and fervent lover of pop culture, I constantly cover the media I consume. I’m a feminist, a socialist, a survivor of assault. I’m disabled, I’m queer and polyamorous, all of which converge to form a very specific lens. Though I’m thankful for the rising literary representation and perspective of the physically disabled, I long for more nuanced coverage through the lens of severe mental illness. I long to see someone more like me. Without a degree, a modern workplace is already an uphill battle. Hurling further professional obstacles onto that path like a Mario Kart villain from hell is my diagnosis of severe PTSD and depression. Corporate employment rhetoric suggests that disability status should be disclosed immediately, but my lived experience suggests that disclosing disability status is unpalatable to Corporate America. Many companies won’t meet your accommodations if they don’t feel like it. It’s easy to evade the letter of the law by inventing a convenient excuse to oust someone with a bothersome constitution and replace them with a shiny and new model that doesn’t faint from hyperventilation or cry in empty conference rooms. While capitalism implies that my productivity indicates the value of my very existence, I am left forging my own way. Instead of fighting the unjust fifth circuit court for social security benefits because I’ve been deemed unsuitable for a cubicle, I persist by creating in the environment I feel safe. Working from home and writing about the things I legitimately care about is the light at the end of my tunnel. I give myself permission. KATHRYN WAY [email protected] 281-627-8314 www.kathrynway.com Kathryn Way is a comedian and writer seeking work in Houston, Texas. Her content has appeared in BuzzFeed, Huffington Post, OBJECTIVE › Funny or Die, Playboy, and unauthorized t-shirts from companies that steal jokes from the internet and sell them to teens for $30 a pop. Kathryn wouldn’t even pay $30 for her own joke. The first time her mom found her Twitter account, she asked, “Katie, are you trying to ruin my fucking life?” Only her mom can call her Katie. Covering topics like pop culture, sex and relationships, politics, and history, Kathryn's comedy and writing are not for the faint of heart. Her work is of the feminist, personal, political, subversive, and sometimes absurd variety, that punches up, not down. Kathryn also writes frankly and openly about living with mental illness, surviving assault, and her struggle with PTSD and depression. She was an Artist in Residence for the year of 2017 at Houston’s premier art, comedy, and performance venue, Rec Room. Currently looking to expand her digital horizons, Ms. Way seeks opportunity covering the material closest to her heart through the lens of the very specific intersection of her existence. www.mygayhouston.com PUBLISHED WORKS › My Gay Houston May 2018 — Present Vocal Local: JanieWhateva September 10, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/vocal-local-janiewhateva/ The Woodlands First Pride Festival August 30, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/the-woodlands-first-pride-festival/ White Linen Nights in The Heights August 1, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/white-linen-night-in-the-heights/ Lounge on the Lawn in Midtown July 19, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/lounge-on-the-lawn-in-midtown/ Vocal Local: Honey Moonpie July 16, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/vocal-local-honey-moonpie/ Summer Lewks: Montrose Thrifts and Boutiques June 21, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/summer-lewks/ Visitor's Guide to Pride Houston May 29, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/visitors-guide-to-pride-houston/ Pup-Friendly Patios in Houston May 21, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/pup-friendly-patios-in-houston/ Boogie Down in H-Town May 14, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/boogie-down-in-h-town/ First Annual Lez Prom May 19 May 9, 2018 https://www.mygayhouston.com/blog/post/first-annual-lez-prom-may-19/ www.outsmartmagazine.com Outsmart Magazine July 2018 — Present Wade in the Sonic Joy Is the Rihanna They Wish to See in the World July 12, 2018 (Appearing in print August 2018) http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2018/08/houstons-wade-in-the-sonic- joy-wants-to-be-the-non-binary-rihanna/ via www.visithouston.com Associated Press September 2018 — Present From crawfish boils to bánh mì and beyond — How Houston became an award-winning melting pot for foodies October 1, 2018 https://apnews.com/direct/?prx_t=HxwEAAAAAAbbUQA&prx_ro=s www.chron.com September 2018 — Present Houston Chronicle Protecting Houston's Black History - The Luckie School To be published October-November 2018 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b6rmf5Ayoc8QRqPuFTtxlwB-zq- RoxwAns-fBcBHSiM/edit?usp=sharing PERSONAL WORKS › On the Business of Being Sad A zine compiled of works from 2014-2016 sold at Houston's Zine Fest 2016 Pieces Included: Anatomy of a House Fire On the Dying Kind of Sad Your Voice is a Weapon Mental Illness & Poverty Walk into a Bar This is My Rapist. There Are Many Like it, But This One is Mine. The Aftermath that is Also the Backstory On Invisible Illness & Being Human What if Sadness is Malignant https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ttVuKGhtI5GlT2Lut_66_VXfNZ- j8zrjGLAg1gcOBE/edit?usp=sharing COMEDIC WORKS › Story Hole: Woods Porn October 2017 piece read at the acclaimed LGBTQIA storytelling show I host and produce https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sEQPnlPxXPFfQDe9VyeppbNy0l5i9P2t64jMpCpJgiQ/edit? usp=sharing Yellow Rose Comedy Festival Set Stand up set I wrote and performed in April 2017 at Houston's all women comedy festival https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ptWhHzW4XsUwfCuFOL3ugVLHFxnXoovd/view?usp=sharing Pussy Rickets Parody commercial script written in June 2017 for my sketch comedy show, ShitShow https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rUAKUrOU_ZQPjg1RX5nP1zWUp5OZOItqbB4e3nheivE/edit? usp=sharing The Sorting Tampon Live sketch written in June 2016 for my comedy sketch show, Stalk Show. A parody of Harry Potter's sorting hat that sorts our characters into "houses" that are different neighborhoods in Houston https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V1zwbswbDk6vNlDyUo2HZYMyserUY7d0SKTos3EACt8/edit? usp=sharing EDUCATION › Saint Edward's University Theatre Arts August 2002 — May 2005 Austin, Texas, United States Theatre Major, Women's Studies Minor SOCIAL MEDIA › Twitter Appeared in Buzzfeed, Washington Post, Slate, Huffington Post, Harper's Bazaar, Some Ecards, AskMen, Movie Fone, The Sun, AdWeek, Metro UK, NY Daily News, Playboy, Houston Press, Funny or Die, College Humor https://twitter.com/solikebasically A preview screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts ​ ​ had Brown Auditorium packed tightly with high-fashion femmes and dapper studs. The opening night of QFest, Houston’s queer film festival, is well-received. A graying elder-butch takes a knee next to my partner and me, offering political pamphlets and a rousing sermon. “This movie we’re about to see, it’s Mike Pence‘s wet dream. It’s about praying the gay away, and it’s happening right now in 2018. He wants to shock the gay out of kids.” The projection screen on the stage lowers and cuts her off, her “Trump/Pence Must Go!” button reflecting the dimming house lights. A few scenes in and the shadow of Pence’s praxis towers over the narrative. The emotional violence of modern homophobia has changed outfits often since the film’s 1993 setting, but its face is all too familiar. Mike Pence is easily the most prominent American figure associated with gay conversion therapy. When Pence was running for Congress in 2000, his campaign website stated that federal funding for low-income people living with HIV should only be reauthorized after an audit to ensure that resources were, “directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior.” Despite the polite legalese, this is a more diplomatic version of victim blaming.
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