Month: October 2022
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There’s a space inside (with audio)

The last of the love poems: The Big Heartbreak. It’s his birthday, and he’s been haunting me, so I’m feeling maybe a little spiteful.
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Actually Autistic Moment of the Day: “of”

One of my earliest memory-fragments, puzzling over the spelling of ‘of’ versus the sound of ‘of’. It makes a lot more sense on this side of realizing I’m actually autistic.
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Neurodivergent Reading List, Pt. II

My neurodiversity reading list grows by the day and three more books have made it onto my shelves before I’ve finished the first set.
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What I’d tell my younger ‘autistic’ self now

Things I’d tell my younger ActuallyAutistic self: basically, they’re right, and the empowerment of acceptance.
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Teaching is a Laborious Magic

I really love teaching college students. It’s an awful effort, as in its both an intense slog and the results are awe-provoking, and in retrospect the process looks almost like a kind of interpersonal magic.
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Meanwhile the Everyday Violence of Apartheid in Palestine, Funded by US Tax Dollars

An update on casualties in Palestine as the Iranians try for liberty and western attention remains fixedly on Ukraine.
