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 →
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 →
Yesterday was the first day that same sex couples could get married in Washington State. And my home state did me very very proud. It also has reduced me to a puddle of tears at least 3 times in the last 48 hours. I have been raised by a community – and much of that community was queer, or trans,… Read more →
Yesterday was the first day that same sex couples could get married in Washington State. And my home state did me very very proud. It also has reduced me to a puddle of tears at least 3 times in the last 48 hours. I have been raised by a community – and much of that community was queer, or trans,… 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 →
