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Dear Pam – A Letter on Mother’s Day
Dear Pam, It’s Mother’s Day. This is a day I once felt great pain over, but now I feel indifference. When was the last time we talked on a Mother’s Day? 2003 perhaps? It’s been years. I should have...
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Defiant Lives is Essential Viewing, Though Flawed
The disability rights movement changed my life. I have been benefiting from legislation fought for by disabled activists who came before me since I was a young child. Like Mike Ervin and various other...
View ArticleTrump’s Budget and the AHCA will Lead to Another Disabled Genocide
The Trump budget proposal is all out war against the disabled, the elderly, the poor, those who are black/POC, and LGBTQIA, particularly trans, people. God forbid we’re multiply marginalized, and a...
View ArticlePlease Stop Comparing Disabled Mimicry to Blackface
Those of us who are white in the disability community need to have a conversation about cultural appropriation. There are black and brown disabled people in our communities. They often go ignored, are...
View ArticleBook Review: Killman Creek by Rachel Caine
I love books that are suspenseful. I have a high tolerance for what I can endure when I am reading, so when a book purports to be about the wife of a serial killer who is on the run to protect herself...
View ArticleBook Review: Sinner by Christopher Graves is too Misogynistic to Bother
I sure hope the script is better than the book. Screenwriter and actor, Christopher Graves, is what initially attracted me to the book, Sinner. As a filmmaker myself, I was interested to see how...
View ArticleMusings on Gender: I was a Little “Girl”
Gender is complicated. I’ve thought about this topic a lot, and wanted to talk about some of the things that are ruminating around in my head. I know a lot of people think that when you are a trans...
View ArticleWin Your Choice of a XBox One X, PS4 Pro, or Switch from TheCripCrusader...
So, I’ve been gaming quite a bit lately, and I’ve been doing so on Twitch! I have found a community of gamers who welcomed me, and are amazing people. Thanks to one person, who wishes to remain...
View ArticleThis is the Real Deal with Disability and Film Crews in Hollywood
When I was in film school, nobody would work with me. That is, unless they were forced to work with me. One of the women in my class once told me that no one would work with me because the other...
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Respectability Appropriated My Work and Used It to Promote What They Took
1 I know that many of you know I’ve been an outspoken critic of the nonprofit Respectability and their CEO, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, but I’ve never actually outlined what happened publicly other than...
View ArticleOCD Life – What is Repeating?
I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I was diagnosed some years ago. I knew for years before that that I probably had OCD, but getting diagnosed validated that. One thing I struggle with is...
View ArticleSticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, but Words Can Really Hurt
CN: brief mention of suicide attempt We really have to talk about the adage “sticks and stones” because words can and do real harm to people, especially to those multiply marginalized. I’m reminded of...
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Animal Crossing Pride Twitch Event
Raising money for Trans Lifeline! We are hosting an Animal Crossing Pride Event on our Twitch channel. The event will occur on June 20-21 starting at 3:30 PM ET both days. This is an online Pride...
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Stop MDA & #EndTheTelethon Now!
I’ve been wondering what I could say about MDA and the telethon that I haven’t already said. I’ve been speaking out for years about the harm the Muscular Dystrophy Association has caused those of us...
View ArticleMusings on Gender: I was a Little “Girl”
Gender is complicated. I’ve thought about this topic a lot, and wanted to talk about some of the things that are ruminating around in my head. I know a lot of people think that when you are a trans...
View ArticleWin Your Choice of a XBox One X, PS4 Pro, or Switch from TheCripCrusader...
So, I’ve been gaming quite a bit lately, and I’ve been doing so on Twitch! I have found a community of gamers who welcomed me, and are amazing people. Thanks to one person, who wishes to remain...
View ArticleThis is the Real Deal with Disability and Film Crews in Hollywood
When I was in film school, nobody would work with me. That is, unless they were forced to work with me. One of the women in my class once told me that no one would work with me because the other...
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Respectability Appropriated My Work and Used It to Promote What They Took
1 I know that many of you know I’ve been an outspoken critic of the nonprofit Respectability and their CEO, Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, but I’ve never actually outlined what happened publicly other than...
View ArticleOCD Life – What is Repeating?
I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). I was diagnosed some years ago. I knew for years before that that I probably had OCD, but getting diagnosed validated that. One thing I struggle with is...
View ArticleSticks and Stones May Break Your Bones, but Words Can Really Hurt
CN: brief mention of suicide attempt We really have to talk about the adage “sticks and stones” because words can and do real harm to people, especially to those multiply marginalized. I’m reminded of...
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