The adage “write what you know” has been sitting in my brainpan for a long time. So long that I took it to heart, and I’m writing a book which, at its core, is about the AIDS crisis. I’m not going to talk about the novel in detail mostly because I hope that you’ll get to read it someday, and… Read more →
When I was a kid I loved Sherlock Holmes, and thus the Victorian era, more than anything. I dressed up as Holmes for Halloween multiple years, as I grew older I collected Victorian clothes, dressed in corsets and long skirts, carried parasols, and read everything I could about the Victorian Era. I knew I wanted to be an historian. But… Read more →
Chuck Wendig of terribleminds.com wrote a book. It’s called Star Wars: Aftermath. It debuted at #4 on the NYT Bestseller List. A book about a fandom that’s been around since the fucking ’70s was on the NYT bestseller list? AWESOME. Everyone should be happy right? No. Because it has a gay character in it. The first gay character in the… Read more →
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 →
On Saturday I worked as a stage manager for One of Us Productions’ “Criptiques” made possible by the British Council for Culture , Mat Fraser, Julie Atlas Muz, and BAM. And I was the assistant stage manager. I had the opportunity to meet Laurence Clarke, and Liz Carr, and Bill Shannon. To listen to Lawrence Carter Long, Becky Curran and… Read more →
(This post is made possible by my Patreon supporters! If you’d like to support feminist sonar, please follow the link!) Something I’ve noticed as medical advances become more commonplace when it comes to supporting people with disabilities, is that we don’t have a concept of the intermediary process between a solution, and its actual implementation. In the mind of an… Read more →
