M. L. N. “Key” Kirby is an MA student in the Department of Bioethics and the Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. After earning an MA in Literature, teaching community college English, and winning the Mark Reynolds TETYC Best Article Award, they have returned to school to study ethics, disability justice, personhood, psychiatry and neurodiversity, agnotology and the unspeakable, and the way cognitive and affective factors shape scientific knowledge.