Legitimacy (Trigger Warning)
Not often do I find myself seething after only one cup of tea in the morning, but today seems to be that kind of day. Legitimate rape, Mr. Akin? I have a few questions about this. The first one, is how...
View ArticleIn Defense of a Name
And to piggyback on the previous post – This is one of those news stories that is real, and therefore more ridiculous than parody! A deaf three-year old in Nebraska is being told to change the way in...
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Why I’d be Proud to Have a Book Banned
In graduate school I studied the history of obscenity in the United States, and specifically sought to understand art as a subject for legal critique. My question has always been why art is so...
View ArticleHaving Fun Isn’t Always Fun and Games
I’m always up for sharing the work of those I know on the internet watercooler, and today I’m talking about the piece Lillian Cohen Moore wrote about Cards Against Humanity – a game which I love...
View ArticleA Language Bereft of a Future: The Language of Sexual Assault
In the aftermath of Steubenville I think we need to have a conversation about what happens going forward for any Jane or John Doe who lives through sexual violence. The word “victim” has been on my...
View ArticleA Note to Cis Allies & Feminist Media Outlets
Two days ago Private Chelsea Manning made a statement that she wished to no longer be called Bradley Manning, and that she wished to go by female pronouns rather than male. In the last two days I have...
View ArticleJe ne suis pas un idiot.
This past weekend I was at Geek Girl Con (YAY GEEK GIRL CON) and I’ll be writing about that tomorrow. Because that deserves its own post. But it was certainly ironic that this happened while on my way...
View ArticleWhy Do You Speak For the Disabled?
Over the weekend, two pieces of media came to my attention looking at the dialogue between the blind and the sighted. One, was the New York times op ed, “Why Do We Fear The Blind?” by Rosemary Mahoney....
View ArticleHow Storium Helped me Stop Worrying and Learn to Love my Writing
Read this whole post – Contest rules are AT THE END. A Caveat: I am the community manager for storium.com, but they’re not paying me to write this piece. I’m writing it because I love where I work, and...
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