Some of you may not be aware of the fact that I do research on obscenity law as a part of my academic career which means I keep track of banned books and obscene materials in the news. Today I read about a mother in Michigan who wants the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank’s diary) to be banned,… Read more →
Two years ago I wrote a piece for Offbeat Bride called Blind Women Get Married Too One year ago on Sunday, I married my now husband. (You can see the wedding profile on offbeat bride right here!) I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a visibly married disabled woman, and how people seem to be completely… Read more →
It is January of 2010 and I am sitting in front of my ocular plastic surgeon wearing my painted scleral shell for the very first time. I have still not figured out how I feel about my newly minted matching eyeballed self, and suddenly he says: ‘ “You look amazing! With some botox to stop you from squinting, thinner lenses… Read more →
I do not have the emotional energy to talk about Boston today. But Boston is in my thoughts and I hope for all civillians’ to be safe and for all law enforcement officers to be safe. In lieu of more thoughts, I’m sharing a post by a blind woman who lives in Boston, whose story sounds a lot like when… Read more →
April is halfway done, and I’m still looking for more people to share their stories for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. As I stated in the post earlier this month about the statistics: 80% of women with a disability will have a sexual assault experience in their lifetime. As a participant in mainstream feminism, I have never come across a dialogue… Read more →
A couple weeks ago I decided to play the new Tomb Raider game and live tweet the experience. As a result of the livetweets, I’m definitely going to go play more games and livetweet them from a visually impaired perspective. Because you all seem to find it interesting. Obviously – a spoiler warning is HERE if you don’t want to… Read more →
Editors Note: For many of us with disabilities, our relationships with our bodies are fraught with mistrust and fear. Our ability to protect ourselves may be compromised, or our own ability to believe we own ourselves is in denial. These “lessons” which the author lays out for us, are warnings to change the way society thinks about disabled bodies. To… Read more →
My suitcase was stolen on March 29th 2013. Some of the items within that suitcase were important to me. Some didn’t matter. Though why you’d want my $10 plaid pajamas is beyond me. I remember putting my suitcase into the luggage compartment on the bus. Yet the driver tells me (and his company) that my purple suitcase was not on… Read more →
I’m choosing to run this story in the ‘Sexual Assault and Disability’ series because not all sexual assault or sexual damage is physical. It can also be mental. In the case of Purity Culture, it is an all encompassing world. It is an enforced code of ethics, and that too can leave scars. In the case of this story, purity… Read more →
