Self Defense Should Be Genderless
CONTENT WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. I ran across this website this past weekend, and it made me take many pauses. At first, I was amused, after all a company called “Damsels in Defense”...
View ArticleJessica Jones Ep2: Disabled Lives Are Worth Living
There’s a common thread in media about disabled lives – and it’s the notion that a disabled life is not worth living. In superhero stories there are disabled people whose lives are worth living because...
View ArticleI Don’t Fit in the Disability Box
I do a couple of volunteer gigs around my small town. It is important to me to serve the community that I belong to, in addition to being a visible blind member of my community. As a result, one of...
View ArticleBlind Lady Versus The Sims
So, I’m a fan of the game The Sims. I’ve played all the iterations, I have many of the expansions packs. I have enjoyed them. And in none of them have people with disabilities been featured. I’m sure...
View ArticleEvolving Play
Yesterday there were a couple really big announcements about the way we play, and it reminded me that even though I’m not making change in the world as a politician, I am making change in the way we...
View ArticleDeadpool As Disability Narrative
{Spoilers in this Post for Deadpool} There’s a lot of things I expected out of Deadpool this Valentine’s Day: Violence, swearing, guns, inappropriate ball jokes. What I wasn’t expecting was to leave...
View ArticleInterview: Maury Brown of Learn LARP & New World Magischola
I’m going to Wizard College in June. Many of us grew up with the Harry Potter books, wishing for a Hogwarts Letter. Or we read the Wizard of Earthsea books. Maybe we read The Magicians and wished we...
View ArticleBlind Lady Versus: New World Magischola
This past weekend I attended New World Magischola, a Wizard College Live Action Roleplaying game. This past weekend I healed the feelings I’ve been having in the wake of some intense hate mail I...
View ArticleNotes from a Front Line
I hear him before I see him. “Fuck you” He slides into my limited periphery, finger thrusting in my face, camera phone lifted at my eye level. “Fuck you” he says again, quickly, forcefully. To me. He...
View ArticleThe Privilege of Survival
There’s a phrase going around a lot. People are saying it to make each other feel better, but to me, it’s not making anything better. In fact, it’s making things worse. “We survived Reagan.” My father...
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