Kristyn Jackson wrote this for PhD Peeps, a website we started together just before she escaped academia and headed to Melbourne. Although originally written for …
Essays
Representations of Albinism in Australian High School English Texts
The University of Canberra required me to write more for my research proposal than every other student; the Faculty of Art and Design Handbook says …
Illustrating Doerr’s statement implying that the ‘true’ Aryan does not have albinism
Preamble I wrote this post because it intersects my thesis that was to have been on representations of albinism and my preparation for my Critical Health …
3MT: Prejudice Kills
Context: The Three Minute Thesis is a public speaking competition I had intended to participate in this year. For reasons that will become obvious, I …
Is being fat a disability? A biased opinion
Shakespeare (from Disability Rights and Wrongs Revisited [2013], Routlege) and others seem to accept that ‘fat’ people are disabled although they have no impairment causing their …
Endnote fix for Macs
I’m researching representations of albinism in news and contemporary culture at the University of Canberra, which provides Endnote to its students. Unfortunately, it didn’t work on my …
Albinism representations
Updated preamble I’m still researching representations of albinism in popular culture. Now I’m no longer in the toxic waste dump that is academia, I can …
RIP Beryn Keep
Who was Beryn Keep? Why am I writing a memorial for someone you’ve never heard of? Beryn Keep was my uncle. He grew up in poverty …
Bechdel Test
by Nalini Haynes Circa 1985, Alison Bechdel wrote a comic strip about a minimum feminist standard of movie viewing; this strip is called ‘The Rule’ and …
Misappropriation in Action: Zeroes by Westerfeld, Lanagan & Biancotti
On the weekend I was talking to another person with disability on Twitter about poor representations of disability, citing Zeroes by Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan and Deborah …
Lionel Shriver, Representation and Misappropriation Part 3
This is part 3 of my response to Lionel Shriver’s views on appropriation and representation of others’ experiences. (Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.) …
Dick of the Day or why Lionel Shriver is wrong
This is not part of my three-part response to Lionel Shriver. This is a blog about yesterday and living as disabled; I am trying to …
Lionel Shriver, Representation and Misappropriation Part 2
This is part 2 of my response to Lionel Shriver’s views on appropriation and representation of others’ experiences. (Part 1 is here.) In this part …
Lionel Shriver, Representation and Misappropriation Part 1
My response to Lionel Shriver and authors’ appropriation of ‘other’ experience is in three parts, scheduled weekly. This is part one. Lionel Shriver’s speech at …
9 Indicators of a professional organization
It takes more than a claim, no matter how often repeated, to actually become a professional organization. This includes writers’ groups. Some of the indicators …