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I Have Beef with the Foundation Fighting Blindness

I am not so audacious as to consider myself a rhetorician, but my education consisted of an unhealthy amount of rhetoric and I can’t help but wear the hat. Leading me to draw ire with the Foundation Fighting Blindness. If the object of my derision is not immediately obvious

Blind Envy

An earlier draft of this confession had paragraphs of context to ensure that I don’t come across as antagonistic towards my fellow Blind comrades. But why is it my responsibility to ensure an audience can understand nuance? Can readers not parse it themselves any more, read with the subtext

On Being the Only One

Am I alone? The only benthic creature scrawling along the bottom of an othered ocean. I felt alone. I knew my great-grandfather was Blind, but he lived across a country and the stories I heard about him celebrated his refusal to use a cane or give up driving – his

Perfect Spring Loaf (Writing Battle)

A Daredevil Primer

In preparation for my upcoming Daredevil Omnibus (named so because of Daredevil’s comic book origins) I want to give a primer on the character and my relationship to it in general. If only to stave off any questions I inevitably get when I so much as mention the Man

They Tried to Justify Me

For their final, my Intro to Academic Writing students had to do one simple thing; argue for or against the existence of my job. Either individually, as in I shouldn’t be teaching, or institutionally, as in first-year composition courses shouldn’t exist at all. They’ve got some

I Identify as a Hater

Far be it from me to judge any disabled comrade on how to interpret their disabled reality, especially one that chooses to find joy and strength in it. But I just can’t get into Lachi’s I Identify as Blind. Honestly, I feel bad about it! Lachi is objectively

Hitched in Bed (Writing Battle)

[A month ago I entered a Writing Battle. They're a website that hosts these strangely compelling competitions with fun little constraints and what not. This is what I wrote for the latest one. I did not win. But I like the foundation of the story and I can

do teach

My duology lies in ruin. Doom and elation come in predictable patterns and one can be overcome with the approaching visage of the other. The recent seasons had no idea that the election of a pedophile would have the power to disrupt their celestial pressures, tossing us all through gales

we shouldn't share the pink pony club with children

I am an absolute crow for some good gossip. My favourite carcasses are those I’m led to by people who know my name at least as well as I knew theirs, but sometimes a dry spell comes along where the kettle just wasn’t put on and I have

would Iwata layoff faculty like this?

In the tumultuous middle teens of the adolescent 21st century, Nintendo released, to no real fanfare, the Wii U. Widely panned, widely forgotten, widely reemerging as a quality console for home brewing and exclusives that just didn’t get Daddy Reggie’s full attention. The failure of the console, at

project hail teacher

Project Hail Mary is one of the rare instances of optimistic science fiction that doesn’t just absolutely suck the soul out of me. If you don’t want that optimism ruined for you then I beg you, go out and watch the movie and read the book before reading

trigger warning nine eleven

literary litmus test - hard rain falling

Don Carpenter wrote a test. It’s not a long test, it only took me about nine hours. It’s not a lonely test, I listened to the thoughts of a fellow reader as I went along. It’s not an inaccessible test, the language is efficient and gives you