Caz Killjoy (pronouns: they/them) is a cripsex agitator, disability activist, educator, writer, storyteller, and general pain-in-the ass currently living near Washington, DC on unceded Nacotchtank land. Their endeavors focus on what make most people uncomfortable: advocacy and accountability; sex and kink; pain, disability, and illness; death and poverty; accessibility and technological security.

The Professional is Performative

Me: a photo from the upper chest to top of head of a pale white-skinned person with dark brown hair with natural streaks of silver; hair runs past shoulders and out of picture frame; diagonal microbangs on forehead. Thin brown eyebrows with several scars on the right brow. Dark hazel eyes with bright blue eyeliner. Dark purple-red lips. Face may be smirking; dimples are evident. Background is a rainbow curtain with the colors red, orange, yellow, green, and blue running vertically behind me.

For more than a decade, Caz has assisted as peer support for disabled individuals, a consultant for nonprofits and solopreneurs, and an advocate for individuals in need regarding accessibility, disability awareness, supportive services, health insurance, vocational rehabilitation, economic stability, and diagnostic support.

As a writer and storyteller, Caz began “blogging” in the 1990’s, providing them with over twenty years of experience with professional over-sharing in the style of the chaos-to-quest narrative. Using a variety of monikers and platforms, they have written publicly and extensively on issues of sex, relationships, disability, and mental health since before they were old enough to know better. Over the last twenty years, Caz has appeared as an author, interviewee, or performer in multiple media formats relating to disability and/or sexuality. Recently, they have taken to the stage as a ribald storyteller with a focus on medical quest narratives.

Since 2017, Caz has presented workshops and guest lectured to graduate students at George Washington University, Georgetown University, and Widener University and undergraduate students at Stony Brook University, on subjects including sadomasochism in relation to chronic pain, sex and disability, kink and disability, and disability as a general topic. They have taught about accessibility, poverty, disability, and technology to wide audiences, from activists and organizers to sex workers and tantra practitioners to business-focused professionals.

With Amber DiPietra, Caz co-founded the Disability and Sexuality Access Network (DASANetwork), an education and advocacy organization for people who are passionate about disability, sex, and sexuality. They are also a founding board member of The Kinder Foundation.

In their spare time Caz runs Playing it safe(r): an accessible technology security guide for a post-FOSTA / SESTA / CLOUD world and occasionally maintains a Resource Index for Accountability Work for folks who are interested in accountability and restorative and/or transformative justice.

The Personal is Political

Face of a white, femme-ish person with dark brown hair (and some silver!) with bangs that extend over their thin, high-arching, dark brown eyebrows, and extends over their naked shoulders and onto their chest. Green eyes, open-mouthed pink slight smile. They are wearing a Vegas-style headdress made of sequins and feathers in various shades of pink, purple, and red.

As a lover of fights and a fighter for love, Caz prefers people who will “risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.” Despite this, like Groucho Marx they refuse to belong to any club that would have them as a member.

In Slavic, “Caz” means “the famous destroyer of peace,” but “Caz” is also an abbreviation of their first name, Cassandra.

Caz is a nonbinary person (their pronoun.is/they) who presents as tomboy femme with toddler grandma style; white; queer (as in fuck you), aceflux, grey-romantic, and non-monogamous (relationship anarchist); sadomasochistic switch; anarchist and atheist; lumpen-precariat and a current recipient of social services such as SNAP benefits, Medicaid, and a housing voucher; formerly unhoused; a former sex worker; a survivor of sexual trauma and medical neglect; a proud GED recipient; and multiply disabled (mad, sick, cognitive, physical, genetic).

Though they are a fascinoma (zebra), they prefer to live out Hickam’s Dictum as a rainbow-sparkle black-glitter unicorn.