I grew up with American Girl dolls. I had a Kirsten (because my heritage is Swedish American) and a Molly – because she had glasses! I loved that I had a doll who had to wear glasses like I did. It definitely helped me to understand that glasses were a normal part of my image and nothing to be embarrassed… Read more →
2012 is the year I started Feminist Sonar. Today I have a small writing career beginning, a .com version of this site coming soon, and have been interviewed on Huffpost Live. Next year I hope for even better and more interesting things. So Wednesday we come back with a long piece about mental illness and media representations. We’ll talk about… Read more →
Tonight at 8:15pm at HuffPost Live I’ll be talking about my article for XOJane “I’m Disabled But People Still Don’t Think I’m Blind Enough”. Please join me tonight for a frank discussion about disability and living in a world where it’s okay to ask “Are you really blind?”
Well, this dovetails awfully nicely! My piece “It Happened to Me: I’m Disabled But People Don’t Think I’m Blind Enough” is over at xojane.com!
I was bullied in middle school. I was the kid you made fun of. Well, as an adult I’m tired of watching the scenes of bullying play out again and again and again. Over the internet, in workplaces, during lectures. And it’s not just about the middle schoolers anymore. It’s about adults. And the bullying isn’t targeted at straight, white… Read more →
The Mary Sue ran a piece about a young woman named Stella Ehrhart yesterday. She does historical costume for school every day. By which I mean that she dresses as different historical figures each day for school. In the article she is pictured dressing as Helen Keller, Billie Holliday, Grace Kelly – she pulls most costumes from a book called… Read more →
I wanted to watch the Paralympics, but there’s no way for me to watch them. I don’t have a television, because it is too hard for me to watch things on a screen far away – but even more problematic than that, I live in the United States. It is because I don’t have a TV that I didn’t realize… Read more →
Glimpses of Tanya Ransom It isn’t often that I get to see my father perform. Actually, it’s a pretty rare occurrence. I think the last time I saw him perform was when I was seven years old. Maybe 8, I can’t really recall. The point, is that this is very unusual. yesterday I got to watch a video of my… Read more →
These days, many of us wake up to the fresh sensation of new horror. We hear of republican candidates threatening our rights to our bodies, making assumptions about the very nature of how a woman’s body can “stop” pregnancy for a legitimate rape. We live in a frightening climate. Freedom of speech is something I hold very dear, but I… Read more →
A few weeks ago I woke up to the news that my wedding bouquet was on Offbeat Bride’s Monday Montage. Later that afternoon, a friend of mine told me that she’d seen my bouquet on The Mary Sue. Two days after that Corey Doctorow showed up on my flickr page and asked if he could put it on Boing Boing,… Read more →
