Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Monday, July 31, 2017

Distraction or DDOS?

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Heads up that this is about the current US government, including the POTUS. Meaning: Everything is a mess. Every time that several bad th...
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Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Alyssa Reads: Critical Studies of the Sexed Brain -- Communication thoughts

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I continue my thoughts from reading Critical Studies of the Sexed Brain . Because I had more and then forgot to put them up here. Go me.  ...
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Monday, May 1, 2017

Jobs for autistic strengths and "autistic strengths"

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Full disclosure: Real Social Skills got me thinking about this with some tweets ( first tweet , second tweet , third tweet ), and then a bl...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Party Giraffe, Hot Spicy Autism, and Small Acts of NO.

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By inclination, I'm a bit of an imp. I will say a true thing (I'm nonbinary) in a slightly silly way, messing with people using tru...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

No Boundary Thinking Seminar Reflection 1

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This semester, I'm took a seminar on no-boundary thinking. Which sounds like a fancy word for what I often try to do as a vaguely disab...
Monday, October 24, 2016

Alyssa Reads The US Book

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On September 26, my copy of The US Book , by Michael Scott Monje Jr, arrived. I started reading. I know that's the day it arrived becau...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Not everything is possible (And I get a lot more done when I admit this)

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There are, in fact, things I can't do, no matter what mindset I am in. There are, in fact, things where it is not worth my time to try ...
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Saturday, October 8, 2016

"Locker room talk", "vulgarity", and sexual assault.

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Heads up that I'll be talking about sexual assault. Most of the thoughts I'm expressing are things I've heard elsewhere, but no...
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Thursday, June 30, 2016

Why don't you just make your own? WE'RE TRYING!

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All too often, when people talk or write about representation in fiction, the responses we get are somewhere in the area of, "So write...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 3

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I'm now reading Chapter 2. The previous part (Chapter 1) is here , and the start of my reading Uniquely Human  is here . I think I...
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Thursday, June 2, 2016

Alyssa Reads Uniquely Human: Part 1

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I'm reading  Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism,  by Dr. Barry M. Prizant, with Tom Fields-Meyer. I'm not entirely s...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Age Appropriate

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Age appropriate is one of those phrases I've got a complicated relationship with. On the one hand, I'm an educator (I teach math ...
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

神经多样性及跨文化交际 (Neurodiversity and Cross-Cultural Communication)

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Written in April 2014 and then not published because ??? I think I wanted to work on this more but it's been sitting so here it is. ...
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Monday, May 30, 2016

Representation, Freedom of Speech, and Patterns

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Warning: suicide (mostly in fiction but with discussion of real life effects) The example of the moment is Me Before You . It's yet a...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Multicultural Psychology Post on Health (care) Disparities

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This was a discussion board post for my Multicultural Psychology class. The topic was culture and health, and the chapter focused pretty h...
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