Kat has been with NeuroQueer since before it was NeuroQueer, and it was Queer ADHD founded by Sarah Dopp. Monday mornings they run a weekly review for people to connect and get ready for the week. It is called “worming into the week” based on two queer worms who wear western wear, named Harriet Janet and Sheila. These worms are just trying to get through the week and not dry up on the sidewalk. Kat is passionate about neurospicy queers being resourced each week in order to contribute their truest selves to the world.
Kat is a queer gender expansive artist who struggles with their mental health every damn day. One of their main objectives is to just continue to exist in the world so they can make weird creepy stuff and represent those of us who are too emotional, too sensitive, too weird.
Kat has explored a wide variety of careers, having held over thirty-five different jobs throughout their life. Their roles have often centered around education, from ski instructor and whitewater kayaking guide to college professor, preschool teacher, and woodworking instructor. Embracing their neurodivergence and kinesthetic learning style, Kat returned to the craft of woodworking with a renewed focus on the physicality of making. One of the hardest things as a working artist for Kat is to actually complete and share work.They often find playing possum to be an acceptable solution to actually being seen. Kat has a collective with two artist friends, Kacey Montgomery and Jamey Hudnall, called the Playing Possum Collective where they share the struggles of trying to move past the desire to play dead instead of sharing their art. Kat shares personal work at katherine-edmonds.com.
Currently, Kat co-operates Highland Woodshop, a community woodshop dedicated to offering access to woodworking to traditionally excluded folks, in Corvallis, OR. They teach classes, mentor members, and help manage the daily operations. In addition, Kat is co-founder of Playing Possum Collective, the brain-child of three queer visual artists, which hosts the Playing Possum Podcast. Kat also volunteers as a founding board member of the Oregon Sibling Leadership Network, a nonprofit supporting siblings of individuals with disabilities.
