As a disabled woman, whenever disability and abortion are in the same sentence I get angry. The most popular post on this blog is from 2013, when I wrote a passionate piece about why the use of disability in abortion dialogues to be so hurtful. Pro Choice Should Not Mean Ableist has been shared, reshared, and viewed over and over… Read more →
Finding your writing process is a balance of things. It is the process of knowing what kind of time you have to write. It is the process of knowing yourself well enough to know when you write – and it’s trusting yourself to do it. I have been writing my whole life. But until this summer, I’d been floundering around… Read more →
I remember the day that I got my PTSD diagnosis, and it was as though the heavens had opened and someone finally understood what was happening in my head. The nightmares had been going on for years. When I finally snapped in high school, when I finally had what’s called an episode it was after so much time had passed… Read more →
I’m not a Chris Christie fan. On Monday, he signed a bill that makes me dislike him a little less. Bill S1760 is a bill which requires high schools in the state of New Jersey to allow students to take American Sign Language (ASL) as their foreign language requirement. This is a big deal because it means that more students… Read more →
This year I did GenCon on wheels. In fact, I brought my own. This year at GenCon had some incredible moments, some weird moments, and one moment where I sat in front of an elevator and cried because I didn’t feel human. I’m using a wheelchair because over the last year my chronic pain has gotten so bad that walking… Read more →
