I am terrified and excited and hopeful, and I can't wait to share this next iteration of my work with you.

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.

Person smiling at a diner table, wearing a green sundress and silver pendant necklace, short silver hair, holding a phone.

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

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...

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.

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 …

Piece up at @hfr.bsky.social!

heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/03/12/u...

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!

Thrown Under a Fire Blanket RE: autistic masking and dissociation

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

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.

From Minneapolis to “Bread and Roses,” Workers Have Always Fought Back Times and conditions may change, but the struggle between labor and capital continues.

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...

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.

Grounding with Mabel: Lessons from a Grumpy Little Dog Grounding prescriptions crumble under PDA’s gravity.

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

The House I Already Knew: Reading Piranesi as Dissociative Architecture Note: This essay discusses Piranesi’s central mystery and transformation.

I wrote about Piranesi and dissociative architecture.

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

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

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.)

The Quiet That Wasn't Vigilance Filed under: grief logic and cellular loyalty.

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...

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.

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

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

Watching disabled people around the world mourn Alice is a reminder of the good aspect of the internet. 30 years ago, few people outside of SF would ever have known Alice existed. I never would have met her. The internet connected us all. Let’s honor Alice’s memory by using that power and community.

Alice Wong was one of the most effective people challenging the Whiteness of disability communities and its many flaws, but who believed fiercely in us as a community, in disabled people as oracles.

Alice brought so much to so many of us, it’s hard to measure the kind of gratitude I have for that.

I think the Elyse Myers thing is a vivid example RE: norms that are about power differentials/preventing structural harm are not “arbitrary neurotypical etiquette.” Autism does not preclude responsibility and power.