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 →
SPOILER ALERT FOR THE GAME FIREWATCH. I can’t talk about this game without talking about what happens – not really. I’ll do my best, though. The first ten minutes of Firewatch made me cry. Not because anything happened that was overly dramatic, but because the choices that I made were important to character development, and the way that they chose… Read more →
I want to talk about the horror genre today, and I want to talk about it with one specific film in mind (THE WITCH) and in general as a concept of genre. There’s a great article over on medium.com which talks a lot about the sort of horror films I love (THE WITCH, THE BABADOOK) and one which I vehemently… Read more →
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 too could take one of those exams. Now I get to run away to Wizard College, and for 3 days, I’ll be… Read more →
{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 the theater thinking about how disability narratives are few and far between in the superhero genre, and how maybe Deadpool was the hero disabled nerds needed to see…. Read more →
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 tell stories, and that’s important too. Here’s how I realized my work mattered: 1) Mattel announced new Barbie’s with different shapes, skin… Read more →
There’s been a lot of talk about what sexual assault survivors think and feel about abuse. There’s been a lot of thinking about how we handle the death of someone who perpetrated abuse, and about how we work in communities with people who have changed and remediated themselves (or haven’t). I think it’s important in conversations like these to remember… Read more →
