Kate Gies
@kategies.bsky.social
writer/educator/cat enthusiast
Author of IT MUST BE BEAUTIFUL TO BE FINISHED: A MEMOIR OF MY BODY
(Simon & Schuster)
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Author of IT MUST BE BEAUTIFUL TO BE FINISHED: A MEMOIR OF MY BODY
(Simon & Schuster)
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Kate Gies
@kategies.bsky.social
· Dec 30
Trailer for my memoir. Out with Simon & Schuster in February.
#memoir #trauma #body #disability #medical
#memoir #trauma #body #disability #medical
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I dearly love Kathryn Mockler's interview with my wife, @kategies.bsky.social about shame and trauma and all the ways we find to heal
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I’d send my love to all the kids who feel like weirdos.
I've been meaning to ask Kate Gies
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July 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I dearly love Kathryn Mockler's interview with my wife, @kategies.bsky.social about shame and trauma and all the ways we find to heal
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/id-send-my...
sendmylovetoanyone.substack.com/p/id-send-my...
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Rewriting a Story About Medical Trauma: Kate Gies joins me on Let’s Talk Memoir.🧡
@kategies.bsky.social
Here’s the episode: ronitplank.com/2025/07/08/l...
@kategies.bsky.social
Here’s the episode: ronitplank.com/2025/07/08/l...
July 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Rewriting a Story About Medical Trauma: Kate Gies joins me on Let’s Talk Memoir.🧡
@kategies.bsky.social
Here’s the episode: ronitplank.com/2025/07/08/l...
@kategies.bsky.social
Here’s the episode: ronitplank.com/2025/07/08/l...
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We gave helium to a parrot to hear if it talked funny but it just floated to the ceiling.
March 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
We gave helium to a parrot to hear if it talked funny but it just floated to the ceiling.
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If you have a memoir struggling to get out of you, @kategies.bsky.social shares her own experience and advice this Thursday, courtesy of the Baltimore Public Library. events.bcpl.info/event/13043765
Writers Studio
Author and educator Kate Gies discusses her experiences writing her book It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished.
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March 24, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If you have a memoir struggling to get out of you, @kategies.bsky.social shares her own experience and advice this Thursday, courtesy of the Baltimore Public Library. events.bcpl.info/event/13043765
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Very proud to see @kategies.bsky.social on Wordstock Sudbury's list to honour International Womens' Day!
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Reading List - Wordstock
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March 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Very proud to see @kategies.bsky.social on Wordstock Sudbury's list to honour International Womens' Day!
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What a great turnout for our “Can you outrun a bear?” three-mile fun run! For the sixth consecutive year, the answer was no.
March 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
What a great turnout for our “Can you outrun a bear?” three-mile fun run! For the sixth consecutive year, the answer was no.
Thank you CBC books for including It Must Be Beautiful on the list of 30 Canadian Books to read this winter!
February 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Thank you CBC books for including It Must Be Beautiful on the list of 30 Canadian Books to read this winter!
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we all have that one knee we drew a face on and that sings to us when we're sad
I mentioned I used to make puppets with my knees as a kid, and someone just asked me how i did that. So, here you go
February 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
we all have that one knee we drew a face on and that sings to us when we're sad
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Me: A sandwich is a book made of bread that tells the story of the ingredients
Bank clerk: *frantically pressing the silent alarm*
Bank clerk: *frantically pressing the silent alarm*
February 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Me: A sandwich is a book made of bread that tells the story of the ingredients
Bank clerk: *frantically pressing the silent alarm*
Bank clerk: *frantically pressing the silent alarm*
Shout out to my amazing cover designer @michelvrana.com. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful cover <3
So cool to see the cover I designed for @kategies.bsky.social here! And @zoewhittall.bsky.social's No Credit River (with fantastic illustration by Ambivalently Yours www.ambivalentlyyours.com
We all know the adage about books and covers, but @kategies.bsky.social is giving you this list of "9 Books You Can Judge by Their Cover"! 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/02... #CanLit
February 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Shout out to my amazing cover designer @michelvrana.com. I couldn't have asked for a more beautiful cover <3
I mentioned I used to make puppets with my knees as a kid, and someone just asked me how i did that. So, here you go
February 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I mentioned I used to make puppets with my knees as a kid, and someone just asked me how i did that. So, here you go
I got to talk to the amazing @mattgalloway.bsky.social from CBC's The Current and you can listen to our conversation here.
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
www.cbc.ca
February 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
I got to talk to the amazing @mattgalloway.bsky.social from CBC's The Current and you can listen to our conversation here.
Such a great honour to be part of such an amazing festival!
We're thrilled to announce the FOLD's 2025 Writer-In-Residence, Kate Gies, author of IT MUST BE BEAUTIFUL TO BE FINISHED!
Join us for the FOLD's 10th anniversary, virtually from Apr 27-30 & in-person May 1-4 in Brampton.
#FOLD2025 @kategies.bsky.social @simonschusterca.bsky.social
Join us for the FOLD's 10th anniversary, virtually from Apr 27-30 & in-person May 1-4 in Brampton.
#FOLD2025 @kategies.bsky.social @simonschusterca.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Such a great honour to be part of such an amazing festival!
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This is brilliant from @kategies.bsky.social.
I “should” have two more major surgeries but they’re not medically necessary and I don’t want them. From my pov as a parent… I don’t 100% know what I’d do in this situation if doctors were advising the same. Confronting! thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-m...
I “should” have two more major surgeries but they’re not medically necessary and I don’t want them. From my pov as a parent… I don’t 100% know what I’d do in this situation if doctors were advising the same. Confronting! thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-m...
I Was Born Missing an Ear. To the World, It Was a Problem to Fix | The Walrus
Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted
thewalrus.ca
February 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This is brilliant from @kategies.bsky.social.
I “should” have two more major surgeries but they’re not medically necessary and I don’t want them. From my pov as a parent… I don’t 100% know what I’d do in this situation if doctors were advising the same. Confronting! thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-m...
I “should” have two more major surgeries but they’re not medically necessary and I don’t want them. From my pov as a parent… I don’t 100% know what I’d do in this situation if doctors were advising the same. Confronting! thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-m...
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"A man of good intentions, who wanted only to build me the best ear he could. A man who, despite his efforts at kindness, was still the man who sliced into me while I was asleep."
@kategies.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca
@kategies.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca
I Was Born Missing an Ear. To the World, It Was a Problem to Fix - Longreads
"Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted."
longreads.com
February 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
"A man of good intentions, who wanted only to build me the best ear he could. A man who, despite his efforts at kindness, was still the man who sliced into me while I was asleep."
@kategies.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca
@kategies.bsky.social @thewalrus.ca
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@kategies.bsky.social’s childhood was characterized by one familiar routine: a train ride into Toronto, a hot-fudge sundae at the Eaton Centre, a small gift from her mother, then the Hospital for Sick Children for surgery. thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-missi...
February 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
@kategies.bsky.social’s childhood was characterized by one familiar routine: a train ride into Toronto, a hot-fudge sundae at the Eaton Centre, a small gift from her mother, then the Hospital for Sick Children for surgery. thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-missi...
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This interview with @kategies.bsky.social is on the radio TODAY!! (or on your podcast platform of choice, if you prefer to listen on your own schedule)
thrilled to be at @kategies.bsky.social book launch last night! Tomorrow she'll be on CBC's Bookends talking about (among other things) the damage wrought by societal stigmas against bodily difference.
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How writing about her medical trauma helped Kate Gies reclaim her body | CBC Books Bookends
The Toronto author discussed her book, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
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February 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This interview with @kategies.bsky.social is on the radio TODAY!! (or on your podcast platform of choice, if you prefer to listen on your own schedule)
Up online today from the Toronto Star - books I love, the one classic I really don't.
Author Kate Gies on her reading habits and why she considers this one classic book ‘deeply problematic’
The writer of "It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished" answers our author questionnaire.
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February 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Up online today from the Toronto Star - books I love, the one classic I really don't.
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Highly recommend this excerpt from the new memoir by @kategies.bsky.social
“With Uncle Louie, I became two bodies: the one I experienced and the one he measured.”
“With Uncle Louie, I became two bodies: the one I experienced and the one he measured.”
I Was Born Missing an Ear. To the World, It Was a Problem to Fix | The Walrus
Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted
thewalrus.ca
February 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Highly recommend this excerpt from the new memoir by @kategies.bsky.social
“With Uncle Louie, I became two bodies: the one I experienced and the one he measured.”
“With Uncle Louie, I became two bodies: the one I experienced and the one he measured.”
Out today! My interview with @thestar.com where I talk about lots of things, including how vulnerability and variability in bodies is the very essence of humanness.
So cool to be leafing through The Toronto Star and find a writer I enjoy, getting acclaim! Congratulations @kategies.bsky.social !
February 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Out today! My interview with @thestar.com where I talk about lots of things, including how vulnerability and variability in bodies is the very essence of humanness.
Tomorrow you can listen to my interview with the brilliant @mattearoach.bsky.social on CBC Radio's Bookends With Mattea Roach.
thrilled to be at @kategies.bsky.social book launch last night! Tomorrow she'll be on CBC's Bookends talking about (among other things) the damage wrought by societal stigmas against bodily difference.
www.cbc.ca/books/booken...
www.cbc.ca/books/booken...
How writing about her medical trauma helped Kate Gies reclaim her body | CBC Books Bookends
The Toronto author discussed her book, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
www.cbc.ca
February 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Tomorrow you can listen to my interview with the brilliant @mattearoach.bsky.social on CBC Radio's Bookends With Mattea Roach.
Hello! An excerpt of my memoir is up at the Walrus today!
Writer @kategies.bsky.social was born missing an ear. What followed was years of well-intentioned violence from a medical system bent on solving the “problem” of her body. thewalrus.ca/i-was-born-missi...
February 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hello! An excerpt of my memoir is up at the Walrus today!
On this official pub date of It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, a reminder that while we're distracted by trade talk, Trump is stripping away the rights of those with marginalized bodies. Stay vigilant people.
February 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
On this official pub date of It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, a reminder that while we're distracted by trade talk, Trump is stripping away the rights of those with marginalized bodies. Stay vigilant people.
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Even in the incredibly unlikely case that trans rights in the US stop getting worse, judges grow a spine, whatever miracle you want to imagine—
You should still go out of your way to support trans folks because every fucking thing is harder for them. Work. Family. Housing. Walking down the street.
You should still go out of your way to support trans folks because every fucking thing is harder for them. Work. Family. Housing. Walking down the street.
February 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Even in the incredibly unlikely case that trans rights in the US stop getting worse, judges grow a spine, whatever miracle you want to imagine—
You should still go out of your way to support trans folks because every fucking thing is harder for them. Work. Family. Housing. Walking down the street.
You should still go out of your way to support trans folks because every fucking thing is harder for them. Work. Family. Housing. Walking down the street.
What do all of these beautiful Canadian books have in common? They're all on a list I wrote for the 49th Shelf! What kind of list? Read here to find out: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/02...
February 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
What do all of these beautiful Canadian books have in common? They're all on a list I wrote for the 49th Shelf! What kind of list? Read here to find out: 49thshelf.com/Blog/2025/02...