There have been a bunch of articles about street harassment popping up in the last couple days. A lot of people I know are tweeting about the boundaries of flirtation – and I’d like to bring up another form of street harassment – and online harassment – which I and other visually impaired people receive. T0 begin with, canes, wheelchairs… Read more →
I’m coming up on the one year anniversary of being groped three blocks from my home – and I’ve never really written about that experience publicly. Then I saw this article: And now I need to say something. For the record – I see her assault as much more violent than my own, but groping is still sexual assault, and… Read more →
Ten years ago I attended a study abroad program for teenagers at Oxford University. Ten years ago I got my first white cane. I decided after much thought that it didn’t seem to be such a smart idea to go by myself to a foreign country without some kind of adaptive aid, and while I had never seen myself as… Read more →
