M. L. N. “Key” Kirby is currently a MA student in the Department of Bioethics and the Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and previously earned a Master’s in a Composition and Rhetoric from University of Houston Clear Lake. Key has research interests in ethics, disability, personhood, psychiatry and neurodiversity, agnotology and the unspeakable, and the way cognitive and affective factors shape scientific knowledge.