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Spring is here, and that means I’ve been busy. I wanted to let y’all know what I’ve been up to while not posting here…cause it’s been a while. I’ve mentioned it before, but I run my own small business making chainmail jewelry and other items. A lot of my effort these past months have gone…
In case you need a definition on eggs: an egg is trans fem slang for a trans woman who does not yet realize she is in fact a woman. Hatching or breaking an egg is when a trans woman begins to understand her identity. This essay should help put this idea into context as why…
Let’s talk about words and what they can show us about society as a whole. Language and words are kinda my thing. I have a degree in English, read and write a ton, and just generally think about/study how we communicate with each other. Now despite larger misconceptions, language by and large is made by…
There are many reasons why I hate ICE. Many arguments can and have been made for why it should be abolished. Today I want to talk about it from a disability perspective. I have been deeply involved in the disability rights movement for almost a decade now. Both professionally and as a disabled person, a…
This has been the hardest post I have written here. Normally, a post takes a few days to write, with a first pass about something I have been thinking about recently followed up by a polished final draft once my thoughts have been put in order. I started writing this one at the beginning of…
The weather gave me a flare up, and I am grumpy about it. I am writing this on a day where my chronic pain is worse than normal, or as I tell my friends, my bones are angry today. I don’t have anything profound to say here, just an aspect of crip life that I…
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