Studying and celebrating the different.
I live in Ohio. In the spring, Governor DeWine signed SB1 into law, making it much harder for me to exist as a cultural studies scholar in Ohio. You can look up the details if you'd like, but it is a bill aimed at removing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from public colleges and universities across… Continue reading Relief
About a month ago I posted about a conference I submitted to (https://deviatefromnorm.wordpress.com/2024/02/14/a-glitch-in-the-system/). I got the e-mail that my proposal was accepted!!! This is really exciting for me. One, it gives me something else to work on in addition to the dissertation (and will hopefully inspire more work on the dissertation). Two, I really feel… Continue reading Oracle accepted!
Recently I saw a call for papers for the Comic Study Society. I am a founding member of CSS and I see the annual calls for presenters for the annual conference. Usually it's more of the fact that I can't afford to go, commonly combined with the theme not speaking to me. I saw this… Continue reading A Glitch in the System
A couple of weeks ago, my boss said he had passed my info on to someone who was putting together a panel for Marcon (Multiple Alternative Realities Convention) about representation of disability in the media. They needed someone else to be on the panel and immediately thought of me. Of course I signed right up… Continue reading Talking about representation!
Male Privilege from a Trans Guy’s Perspective White Privilege, Explained in One Simple Comic Someone posted the first article on Facebook and when I opened it, I saw the link for the second. Privilege is something that people don't realize exist or think about. I didn't until I took Intro to Interpreting. It exists. For… Continue reading Privilege articles
So what is this about? Thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Amendments Act of 2008, people cannot be discriminated based on ability, sex, race, or gender. This means that everyone in the nation is protected. But to me it says that no one is perfect and everyone has their differences.… Continue reading I’m still confused
The more I read various Marvel titles, especially any X-Men titles, the more I see groups in our world portrayed. Some are more obvious than others. The "Disabled" This is where I first really noticing the similarities. Both groups have a history of inequality because of their physical or mental abilities, oppression, experimentation, and legal… Continue reading X-Men as a Mirror
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