Taylor Harris

Harris is the author of This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown

Recent Articles

America Insists It Is Great. It Should Work on Being Decent

For as long as I can remember, I’ve felt a stifling expectation, an understood command to believe that America is great. If I could not see this nation as great, then I must be a...

By Taylor Harris July 2, 2022

What It Takes to Get Support for a Black Boy With Special Needs

After just one IEP meeting at Tophs’ new school, I understood why many parents loathe them. Sometimes you walk into a cold, sterile room and sit across from people who must have once loved something...

By Taylor Harris January 11, 2022

How Ice Cream Became My Own Personal Act of Resistance

In March 2020, before we knew anything—except that schools were closing and we should check every store for Clorox wipes—I texted my sisters a picture of my shopping cart: two pints of peanut butter ice...

By Taylor Harris November 10, 2021

My Child Was Vulnerable Long Before the Pandemic. But the Wait for a Vaccine Is Excruciating

Whenever my 9-year-old seizes, he’s coming out of sleep—as though his brain gets stuck in an elevator between the basement of REM and the lobby of consciousness. Around 5 a.m., always on a day I...

By Taylor Harris September 18, 2021
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