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Closing the School-to-Prison Pipeline 26 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
Mississippi is, honestly, not the state I would look to for radical reforms, as a general rule. Yet, earlier this year, the state did something rather important and unique: it took concrete steps to c...
Book Review: Jagganath, by Karin Tidbeck 25 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
Do you like deliciously creepy, peculiar, strange short stories? You’re probably going to like Jagganath, which will take you on a whirlwind of adventure through strange magic, oddness, and weirdly co...
NBC’s Ironside and Cripface on Television 24 Aug 2013 | 11:54 pm
This fall, it seems that some networks are trying to up their diversity quotients with more token inclusion of disabled characters, adding a handful more to the extremely short list of recurring disab...
Notes From the Urban/Rural Divide: Isolation 23 Aug 2013 | 11:27 pm
If you live in a city, you might not know your neighbours—something I still find hard to grasp, I confess—but chances are high that you know people. People that you can meet up with in physical space....
Gendering Disability/Disability as Intersectional Text 22 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
Disability is, in many senses, gendered. The classic representation of disability, after all, is that of a man in a wheelchair, which tells the casual viewer two things about disability: it is a male ...
How Censorship Works: A Primer (There Will Be A Test) 21 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
Dear my beloved internets, it has come to my attention that many of you are somewhat deficient on the topic of censorship. Namely, you don’t know what it is, and you seem to be struggling with this su...
Spare Me Your Guilt: Try Doing Something 20 Aug 2013 | 11:54 pm
Wringing her hands, the woman looks around at the other panelists. We’re discussing the appropriation of poor skills, the rise of hipster backyard gardening, the erasure of people of colour and low-in...
On Microbes and Colonisation 19 Aug 2013 | 11:36 pm
One of my favourite panels at this year’s WisCon was the Microbes panel, as evidenced by the fact that I’m still thinking about it. What happens when you line up a bunch of author-scientists on a pane...
Book Review: Ancient, Ancient by Kiini Ibura Salaam 18 Aug 2013 | 11:13 pm
After paneling with this Tiptree-winning author at WisCon this year, I knew I needed to bump Ancient, Ancient to the top of my reading pile instead of just making a note to read it ‘soon.’ That proved...
Hooray for Accessible British Television 17 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
Hulu started out, once upon a time, as basically a catchup service, a collaboration between several networks that were just starting to explore the possibility of providing live streaming of their sho...
