Kay Lemay

With almost 10 years experience as a freelance copywriter and content creator, Kay has written in every industry, from parenting to tech to retail to health and fitness. Her areas of greatest interest are health and medicine, lifestyle, and advocacy. She has written everything from press releases to white papers to standard blogs and articles.

She believes that the goal of writing is to communicate a point, concisely, clearly, and in language the consumer will understand. Sometimes that involves distilling highly technical language into something more approachable without losing nuance. This is one of her greatest skills and greatest joys.

She frequently writes her own articles and reviews under the pen name of Kay Tilden Frost.
GeekMom •

'Sailor Moon: The Super Live:' An Eternal Experience

I took my kids to see Sailor Moon: The Super Live about three weeks ago, and I’m still not entirely sure what we saw – except that it was phenomenal. To tell the story from the beginning, I heard in passing that Sailor Moon: The Super Live would be playing two shows in the U.S. this year; one in New York City, and one in Washington, D.C. as part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival. Here’s how wild it was getting tickets for this show: I signed up for a fan newsletter in a language I do not
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'Captain Marvel' Gets Carol Danvers Right and I Was Ready for It

I got out of the 10 PM screening of Captain Marvel on Thursday night a little after midnight. As soon as I got home, I was sitting at my computer and writing. I wrote here about how I was taking my 11-year-old to see Captain Marvel in large part because she didn’t care that this was a movie with a female superhero. Originally, I’d planned for that to be the first time I’d see the movie. After all, what if it didn’t live up to any of my hopes, went on my own, and I ended up sitting through somet
Grok Nation •

Diverse comic creators you should know about

We are often told that fewer and fewer Americans are reading fiction each year, but those numbers don’t seem to include millennials. While their older counterparts are apparently eschewing fiction, 80% of millennials have read a book in the last 12 months. Meanwhile, girl centered graphic novels are dominating the middle grade market; my kids (11 and 7) are deeply in love with Dork Diaries and similar books. “Anything by Raina Telgemeir, Mom,” my 11-year-old told me recently. “Anything by her. J
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Where to Start With Carol Danvers: A Pre-Movie Primer

Of all the MCU movies I’ve watched and enjoyed, Captain Marvel is the first one I’m going into with more than a cursory understanding of the character. It’s never bothered me; MCU characters are never direct translations of their comic book alter-egos, which also hasn’t ever bothered me. But given my deep and passionate love of Carol Danvers, and given the number of my friends who are excited to see the movie, I’ve had people who aren’t familiar with Marvel comics asking what they need to know
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My Kids With Autism Were the Pickiest Eaters on the Planet. Then This Show Changed Everything.

This past Thanksgiving, I was completely overwhelmed as I tried to cook a holiday meal for myself and my kids for the first time. Panicking in the face of a turkey that had been out of the oven too long and stuffing that wouldn’t heat through, I found myself paraphrasing a Gordon Ramsay tirade to help myself calm down and breathe: “I’ve got turkey dying on the pass, and the stuffing is STONE COLD!” Then I laughed, remembered he couldn’t see me, and microwaved the stuffing. A couple minutes late
Grok Nation •

Stop excluding women and girls from conversations about autism

My daughter received an autism diagnosis just after she turned 4 years old. At the same time, the psychiatrist working with my daughter was very clear: He saw the same diagnostic traits in me that he saw in my daughter. After discussing family history, my own childhood, and my reactions to my daughter’s behaviors, the doctor tossed his pen onto his desk, put his head in his hands, and said, “You know there are tests for this in adults, right?” That had actually never occurred to me. I’d spent
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'The Period Game' Kickstarts Menstruation Conversations

When I first took a look at The Period Game, I felt a lot of embarrassment. The center of the game board is a big uterus, and the cards and moves are based around tampons, pads, ovulation, and needing to go to the nurse because you had a leak and ruined your clothing. That embarrassment is kind of the point. I’m 39 years old, and while my mother gave me the What’s Happening to My Body Book for Girls book when I was 10 or 11, my family itself wasn’t comfortable discussing menstruation. I read t
Your Teen Magazine •

Who Am I When My Kids Are with Their Father?

I didn’t get married planning to get divorced, but it happened anyway. In 2017, my daughters and I moved out of state. Their father decided not to come with us. It was over a year before we returned to the state where I had spent most of my life. The divorce is finalized now and visitation is established, so we’ll be traveling 500 miles north four times a year so my kids can spend as much time with their father as possible. Our first trip was this past Christmas. I was on my own for days at a
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Nadia Fixes Everything: 'Unstoppable Wasp' Issue 4

I’m an Unstoppable Wasp fangirl. My Twitter handle changed to Kay, Agent of G.I.R.L., the day the new series was announced, and I haven’t changed it back. I have loved this book since the first issue of the first run, and the new run has just made my love stronger. Today, Issue #4 comes out, and this is a heavy one. Like, this makes the conversation about Hank’s abuse of Janet in the last issue of the first run seem mild and lighthearted in comparison. Issue #3 ended with the G.I.R.L. lab being
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Why I'm Taking My Daughter To See Captain Marvel

Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel, is one of two characters that got me back into comics after a couple decades of buying into the basic fallacy that comics weren’t for people like me (queer, autistic, nonbinary…pick a card, any card). On March 8, Brie Larson will star in Captain Marvel, marking the first time in eleven years and twenty movies that a woman will be the main character in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. When the trailer first dropped back in September, I watched it over and over aga
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Why your holiday gathering needs a quiet room

Sometime near the end of 2016, my best friend asked me something kind, accepting, freeing and wonderful: “Would it be easier for you to come to my parties if I made sure there was a quiet room?” While she said parties, she meant gatherings of five to 10 people with food and conversation. She regularly invited me, despite my track record. Sometimes I outright declined the invitation, and sometimes I accepted, but then canceled at the last minute because I was panicking at the thought of being th
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It Came From Editorial: An Interview With Alanna Smith

“Editorial” is sometimes considered a dirty word in comics. Editors are convenient to blame when a storyline changes, when comics are canceled, and when your favorite titles take a sudden sideways turn. This makes sense, in a way; writers and artists have always been right out there with their names on the front cover. It’s only in the digital age, as editors have taken first to the blogosphere and then to Twitter, that readers can begin to see behind the mask. We’ve begun to understand who edi
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I Don't Want Or Need Your Autism Awareness

If you’re autistic, “Autism Awareness Month” is a special kind of hell. In a month that is theoretically about raising awareness of issues that affect me, my kids, and my community, I am invisible. There are very real issues affecting the autistic community: abusive therapies and “cures,” culture-wide sympathy with caregiver murders, and the total lack of acknowledgment that autistic kids eventually become autistic adults and have specific and individual support needs, to give some of the many,
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GLAAD Media Award Nominations Show Marvel Dropping Diversity Ball

Normally, when something you like gets nominated for an award, that’s a good thing. Normally, when something you like gets nominated for an award that is important to a cause or belief that is important to you, that’s a great thing. But recently, seeing that one of my favorite stories was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in the category of Outstanding Comic was absolutely infuriating. Why? Because, last month, Marvel canceled America – and the other two comics (Iceman and Black Panther: World

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Copywriting In Medical Fields

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