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To the Muslims of the World
The other day I looked back over the diaries I kept when I first went to college, and I looked at the entries I made just after 9/11. Much of it was just my writing down what I learned from the news, as I learned it, and talking about how it affected our daily lives; but some of it was oddly prescient. Some excerpts:
September 16, 2001:
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ISIS joins the disability-hate party
Reading the news today... looks like ISIS has just randomly executed 15 peopleNothing new, you say? ISIS does that all the time, you say? Yes. Yes, they do. But these particular 15 people were disabled ISIS operatives... and ISIS killed them to spare themselves the expense of taking care of them ( Read more... ) -
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
This actually isn't another GLBTQA post. Hehe. I know, surprising. But it is about being in the closet. Read on ( Read more... ) -
God Is Love
I was walking home from class today, and on the quad there was a preacher ( Read more... ) -
On Writing Autistic Characters
The first autistic character I ever read about was a girl named Susan in a children's book. She was a piano savant who could play anything she had heard, even if only once, though it was plain she did not understand the music; when she heard a record, she copied the skips of the record player too. She didn't communicate, didn't have friends. At the ( Read more... ) -
Social justice
I’ve started avoiding social justice type discussions lately. I don’t know how to say all the right things and how to avoid all the wrong implications. I take things literally, like I might say that “all lives matter” is a true statement, because they do matter; and then people think I’m a racist and don't care that black people get killed for no ( Read more... ) -
The Power of Helping
You ever thought about how much power you have when you're helping someone? I have ( Read more... ) -
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality for Multi-Species Stories
So you're writing about a species where gender, sex, or sexual orientation are a little more... complicated than for humans?
Here's my terminology guide for sci-fi, fantasy, and non-human gender and sexual orientation.
Biological Sexes:
Female: The gender that lays eggs or produces the egg cell to be fertilized.
Male: The gender that ( Read more... ) -
Divide and Conquer
I really wish autistic people who can talk and live on their own would stop trying to distance themselves from the autistic people who can't do those things... It frustrates me that they're still kind of buying into the idea that "I'm autistic but it's okay because I'm smart"... because that buys into the idea of ranking people's worth by their ( Read more... ) -
Still God's Children
A friend of mine recently expressed that they disagreed with the recent decision allowing same-sex marriage in all states. I'm re-posting my response here ( Read more... )