Racism Featured Anti-Immigration and White Solipsism Anti-immigration policies are racist. Our responses to growing hostility towards immigrants display the embeddedness of White Solipsism in our societies.
Trauma Trauma responses to oppression The response to trauma is both collective and personal. It's collective because responding to oppression requires collective work. It is personal because one person's ways of responding to to trauma are based entirely on their own experiences.
Justice The Appropriate Response to a Call-in Retribution often caters to some of our more unsavoury instincts: revenge, anger, and pride. Eschewing retribution allows us to have accountability... It is not necessary to forego the needs that usually drive retribution either: justice, validation, and shared sorrow.
Ableism Anatomy of a Stare Every stare is built on the foundation of objectification. You know when something catches your eye? Whether because it's colourful, pretty, unusual, grim, or exciting, you may be curious about it and want to investigate it further...
Disability Avoid Ableist Language Ableist language both upholds and perpetuates ableist structures. It matters in as much as any artefact of subordination matters: it symbolises oppression, and acts as a value-signifier.
Academic Workflow: My Writing Process Since there are a lot of people doing PhDs out there and I would have found this useful when I started mine, I'm detailing my PhD workflow here for anyone who might find it useful. This would also work for general writing tasks. I'm more of
Encanto: Missed Metaphors on Disability Disney has been putting out a lot of disabled characters (or at least, disability-coded characters) in its movies off and on. There's the obvious case of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, not just visibly disabled but also severely abused on account of it. Ariel temporarily loses her voice.
