Tag: social change
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A Building Analogy for Systemic and Academic Neuro-Equity
A tired analogy about barrier-free accessibility, redeployed to address systemic and modal flexibility.
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Unmasking: Valuing my own Priorities, Heating Edition
More about unmasking, here in terms of whose concerns are given priority, mine over anyone else’s, and the importance of valuing even allegedly ‘minor’ priorities.
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Neurodiversity 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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Further Notes on the Second Amendment
Three more thoughts on the Second Amendment as a sort of epilogue to my neurodivergent and philological interpretation of it (‘On Commas and Guns’)
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Reintegrating with Nature: Food-Foraging Edition (via WaPo Magazine)
Next in my series Reintegrating with Nature, an article about foraging in The Washington Post Magazine last weekend led me to thinking about how I’ll implement foraging into my life (post-graduation!), and the food-rich plot of land I’d like to call home at some point, not a small farm anymore, but a food forest instead.
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Paradigm-Shifting Study on Autism: Intense World Theory
Musings on my journey toward realizing that I’m autistic, plus a neurological study I encountered this morning that for the time ever managed to represent my own experience.
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This would be hilarious if it weren’t real, or why I can’t stand economists
The reality of our economic situation is terrible. Why can’t economists see it?
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Neuro-Mask Off: Consciously Forgetting How to Mask
On what it means (for me) to stop ‘masking’ as a neurodivergent person.
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I Must Be Confused, or How to read a pie chart: Water Edition
Is it you or is it the systems: water edition.
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Special Series: Reintegrating with Nature
An introduction to the series on reintegrating with nature as individuals and as a species, as well as how we got to this point of removal from the natural worlds to which we belong.
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Anyone for Lysistrata? Or, Towards a sex-strike for abortion rights, via Aristophanes’ Comedy
Proposing a sex strike for women’s rights, esp. reproductive care, following Aristophanes’ model, Lysistrata
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On Bridges and Trains, or Legitimate Anxiety in the Anthropocene
A metaphor for understanding our times and toward recognizing our climate anxiety and even grief as legitimate expressions of emotion in the face of an unprecedented global destabilization brought about by the last 200 years of the ultra wealthy destroying our planet for their profits.
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Demonizing Oligarchs Won’t Win Elections
Let’s be clear: the times when progressive actions could circumvent the legislature have now ended. In the face of persistent obstructionism by republicans elected to Congress, Obama turned to executive actions and he did what he could with what he had. (For the record, it has not escaped my memory that Donny with the Combover…
Another Neurodivergent Queer Writes A Blog! 