When I was at the prom for my high school in my sophomore year, I had a beautiful vintage 1960s strapless dress. It was mint green, and it had a purple velvet ribbon at the hem and little violets we put on the bodice. I felt so pretty, like a princess. My friend who asked me to the prom wasn’t… Read more →
Laws are cropping up all over the United States banning people who are transgender from using the appropriate bathrooms for their gender identities. In some places, these laws have gone so far as to inflict fines or jail time (six months to be precise, in Oxford, AL) in for using a bathroom which isn’t labeled for their assigned gender on… Read more →
Long before either one of us was diagnosed with autism I knew that my kid was not like my friends’ kids. Now that she’s in school and has been identified as an ‘exceptional’ kid I have had to talk to a lot of ‘professionals’ about those differences and my related concerns. But no matter how I try to explain her… Read more →
If you’re a fan of feminist sonar you might be wondering “Where’s Elsa Been?” over the last month or so. The answer is that I wrote a book. Actually, since last August I’ve completed drafts of THREE books. August-November I finished the first draft of my novel. January-March I revised it and now it’s out on submission. So that’s a… Read more →
So, Daredevil Season 2 is out (I haven’t watched it yet, I swear I’m getting around to it eventually.) But as a result there’s been a lot of Daredevil cosplay again, and y’all we need to have a talk. Again. My sources tell me that at Emerald City Comic Con this past weekend there were sighted Matt Murdock cosplayers with… Read more →
