Posted in Articles, Gaming, Social Justice, Writing on Aug 7th, 2017
This the eighth post of my Ableist Trope of the Week Series. It has been polished, updated, and expanded in “Five Common Harmful Representations of Disability” which has been published on the Mythcreants blog. Tropes are conventions (or repeated patterns) used in storytelling. They can include themes and plot devices. Underdog characters triumphing after dedicated […]
Posted in Articles, Gaming, Social Justice on Jul 24th, 2017
This the seventh post of my Ableist Trope of the Week Series. Tropes are conventions (or repeated patterns) used in storytelling. They can include themes and plot devices. Underdog characters triumphing after dedicated training is an example of a trope, as is goodness being associated with physical beauty, and villains revealing their secret plans to […]
Posted in Articles, Gaming, Social Justice, Writing on Jul 17th, 2017
This the sixth post of my Ableist Trope of the Week Series. Tropes are conventions (or repeated patterns) used in storytelling. They can include themes and plot devices. Underdog characters triumphing after dedicated training is an example of a trope, as is goodness being associated with physical beauty, and villains revealing their secret plans to […]
Posted in Articles, Gaming, Social Justice, Writing on Jul 10th, 2017
This the fifth post of my Ableist Trope of the Week Series. It has been polished, updated, and expanded in “Five Common Harmful Representations of Disability” which has been published on the Mythcreants blog. Tropes are conventions (or repeated patterns) used in storytelling. They can include themes and plot devices. Underdog characters triumphing after dedicated […]
Posted in Articles, Gaming, Social Justice, Writing on Jul 3rd, 2017
This the fourth post of my Ableist Trope of the Week Series. It has been polished, updated, and expanded in “Five Common Harmful Representations of Disability” which has been published on the Mythcreants blog. Tropes are conventions (or repeated patterns) used in storytelling. They can include themes and plot devices. Underdog characters triumphing after dedicated […]
Posted in Articles, Gaming, Social Justice, Writing on Jun 26th, 2017
This the third post of my Ableist Trope of the Week Series. It has been polished, updated, and expanded in “Five Common Harmful Representations of Disability” which has been published on the Mythcreants blog. Tropes are conventions (or repeated patterns) used in storytelling. They can include themes and plot devices. Underdog characters triumphing after dedicated […]
Posted in Articles, Gaming, Social Justice, Writing on Jun 18th, 2017
This the second post of my Ableist Trope of the Week Series. Tropes are conventions (or repeated patterns) used in storytelling. They can include themes and plot devices. Underdog characters triumphing after dedicated training is an example of a trope, as is goodness being associated with physical beauty, and villains revealing their secret plans to […]
Posted in Articles, Gaming, Social Justice, Writing on Jun 12th, 2017
This the first post of my Ableist Trope of the Week Series. It has been polished, updated, and expanded in “Five Common Harmful Representations of Disability” which has been published on the Mythcreants blog. Tropes are conventions (or repeated patterns) used in storytelling. They can include themes and plot devices. Underdog characters triumphing after dedicated […]
Posted in Articles, Social Justice on May 9th, 2017
This personal essay has been published as “Here’s Everything You Learn About Yourself When You Realize You’re Asexual” in Thought Catalog, and as “Sex Has Never Really Worked For Me And That’s Perfect” in Touchpoint. Note that this article contains frank talk about sexuality. I am in my mid thirties and it was only in […]
Posted in Articles, Gaming, Social Justice, Writing on Apr 24th, 2017
Note: This article was created to be the introduction to the first podcast episode of Unfamiliar Heroes. You can listen to it read aloud in Unfamiliar Heroes Episode Zero. I am going to start by saying that, in general, there is an absence of stories with disabled characters. When disabled characters do show […]
