Notes from a Front Line
I hear him before I see him. “Fuck you” He slides into my limited periphery, finger thrusting in my face, camera phone lifted at my eye level. “Fuck you” he says again, quickly, forcefully. To me. He...
View ArticleSurvival is Not One Size Fits All
There’s been a lot of talk about what sexual assault survivors think and feel about abuse. There’s been a lot of thinking about how we handle the death of someone who perpetrated abuse, and about how...
View ArticleJessica Jones Ep2: Disabled Lives Are Worth Living
There’s a common thread in media about disabled lives – and it’s the notion that a disabled life is not worth living. In superhero stories there are disabled people whose lives are worth living because...
View ArticleSelf Defense Should Be Genderless
CONTENT WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. I ran across this website this past weekend, and it made me take many pauses. At first, I was amused, after all a company called “Damsels in Defense”...
View ArticleLack of Accessibility Isn’t Just Illegal – It’s Gatekeeping
I work for a couple cons as a disability access coordinator – that’s the first thing you need to know. I’m not willing to engage in a dialogue about “what are YOU willing to do about it?” Because I’m...
View Article30 and Beyond
Aging with a disability is a little different from normal aging, I’ve found. I turn 30 tomorrow, and it’s not a small thing for me. Every birthday, I look past tomorrow. Throughout the years, I’ve...
View ArticleA Wheelchair is Not a Toy
I work in a variety of positions throughout the gaming world, and almost all of them result in me doing at least a bit of educating when it comes to disability politics/preferred language. The most...
View ArticleBeing Bullied Did Not Give me A Shield & Set of Armor
“Evil witch” one classmate called me. Other classmates simply tied my shoes together, laughing when I fell over. Yet others stole my lunch if I put it on my right side (the side where I am blind.)...
View ArticleGlad I Never Went Viral
There’s a video going around that I’m not going to link here. You’ve probably already seen it, anyway. It’s of a man with a disability being fed by a worker at McDonald’s. Everybody seems to love this...
View ArticleLoving History Never Made Anyone an Historian
When I was a kid I loved Sherlock Holmes, and thus the Victorian era, more than anything. I dressed up as Holmes for Halloween multiple years, as I grew older I collected Victorian clothes, dressed in...
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Trigger Warnings aren’t Coddling – They’re Compassion
I remember the day that I got my PTSD diagnosis, and it was as though the heavens had opened and someone finally understood what was happening in my head. The nightmares had been going on for years....
View ArticleGen Con on Wheels
This year I did GenCon on wheels. In fact, I brought my own. This year at GenCon had some incredible moments, some weird moments, and one moment where I sat in front of an elevator and cried because I...
View ArticleThere Is No Off/On Switch for Disability
(This post is made possible by my Patreon supporters! If you’d like to support feminist sonar, please follow the link!) Something I’ve noticed as medical advances become more commonplace when it comes...
View ArticleWhy I’m Identity First
A lot of people are writing about their choices, whether it be to use person first language (Person with a disability, person with a wheelchair) or identity first language (disabled person, blind...
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...
View ArticleReproductive Rights
Here’s the link to the twitter rant I went on this morning about voluntary sterilization, disabled reproductive rights, and how we need to change the way we talk about our rights. Thanks to...
View ArticleBurdens and Balance
I am angry at Stephen Hawking and after you finish this article, I hope you’ll understand why. During an interview which was released this past Wednesday, Hawking stated that were he no longer to...
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Smashing Ableism with Intersectionality
About a year and a half ago now I moved into a house in the suburbs. When one of our neighbors came by to welcome us to the neighborhood, they came with some gifts. A nice bottle of champagne…. and a...
View ArticleBlogging Against Disablism Day 2015: Home Again
Forgive me, readers. It has been 8 months since my last post. Feminist Sonar is my home. A place where I come to put my thoughts out into the world – a place where women with disabilities are the...
View ArticleGuest Post: Snarking About Service Animals – A reply to the New Yorker
Guest Post by Regina Lizik Last month, The New Yorker published an article by Patricia Marx titled “Pets Allowed: Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn’t be?” But Marx’s comedic...
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