Last year, the science fiction convention Orycon announced a panel on autism (in our world, not in science fiction) that did not include any autistic individuals, though it had plenty of parents. As this is like a LGBTQ panel comprised of straight parents, the Autistic community became obviously troubled. Classic ignorance and ableist tactics ( Read more... )

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I arrived at the beginning, at the house where I (for the most part) grew up. Being here means ( Read more... )

Another travel day, but this one made easy by the grins of my family ( Read more... )

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III. Daylight: Charlie

I wake in softness. Feathers cradle me below; feathers warm me above. I think I'm in heaven, but then my eyes open on M's guest room, looking just the same as it had the night before.

How many nights before?

I stretch and feel fine. I poke my feet out from the ( Read more... )

Parameters:

• One photo per day
• Of ordinary things displaced
• So that they tell a different story

photo-of-the-day set two
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I. Daylight: M

Deliverance delivers me to a three-story brick Victorian.  It used to be beautiful, but it's spent decades crumbling into the cracked 1950's slum buildings to either side of it.  The neighborhood feels dense with history and that makes me nervous.  I step out of the taxi but nothing happens, despite the ( Read more... )

Parameters:

• One photo per day
• Of ordinary things displaced
• So that they tell a different story

photo-of-the-day set one
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