100 Words
A journal of my journey, plus random advice, musings, and observations. May or may not be 100 words. (Who’s counting?)
Saying Yes to Progress in the AP Stylebook
In 2014, I asked AP Stylebook to add entries on bisexual and asexual. Response: “Bisexual is new,” and “Consult the dictionary.”
Good Thing I’m Still Super Weird
In junior high, it was assumed that girls would take Home Economics and boys would take Woodshop. I really, really wanted to learn woodworking, because I love making 3D art. Everybody discouraged me. If I took Woodshop, they said, it meant willingly exposing myself to...
EMDR and Reading (or I Read, Therefore I Heal)
My first pair of glasses were cat-eye and pink. Without glasses, the world is a bewildering blur of color and feathered edges; this has been my reality since age 6. Because I could only see detail up close, I held books inches from my face. Immersed, I could see...