Loving History Never Made Anyone an Historian
When I was a kid I loved Sherlock Holmes, and thus the Victorian era, more than anything. I dressed up as Holmes for Halloween multiple years, as I grew older I collected Victorian clothes, dressed in...
View ArticleMiss Manners Didn’t Cover Facebook
Facebook is a weird place. We’ve created a place online where you can self select the people who can see what you post – people you know from different stages in your life, people who work in the same...
View Article30 and Beyond
Aging with a disability is a little different from normal aging, I’ve found. I turn 30 tomorrow, and it’s not a small thing for me. Every birthday, I look past tomorrow. Throughout the years, I’ve...
View ArticleSelf Defense Should Be Genderless
CONTENT WARNING FOR DISCUSSION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. I ran across this website this past weekend, and it made me take many pauses. At first, I was amused, after all a company called “Damsels in Defense”...
View ArticleSherlock Holmes and The Feminist Who Flips Tables
I’ll say this up front: being a feminist and a fan of Sherlock Holmes at the same time has never been easy. There was a Moffat shaped hole in my heart on Friday. It should be noted before I go any...
View ArticleEvolving Play
Yesterday there were a couple really big announcements about the way we play, and it reminded me that even though I’m not making change in the world as a politician, I am making change in the way we...
View ArticleInterview: Maury Brown of Learn LARP & New World Magischola
I’m going to Wizard College in June. Many of us grew up with the Harry Potter books, wishing for a Hogwarts Letter. Or we read the Wizard of Earthsea books. Maybe we read The Magicians and wished we...
View ArticleReview: The Witch
I want to talk about the horror genre today, and I want to talk about it with one specific film in mind (THE WITCH) and in general as a concept of genre. There’s a great article over on medium.com...
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Guest Post: Celebrating Ghostbusters & The Female Gaze
Celebrating ‘Ghostbusters’ and the Female Gaze By Tara M. Clapper “Ghostbusters” is controversial. Did a disappointing trailer warrant hate for the movie? Did an all-female cast ruin the childhoods of...
View ArticleThe Privilege of Survival
There’s a phrase going around a lot. People are saying it to make each other feel better, but to me, it’s not making anything better. In fact, it’s making things worse. “We survived Reagan.” My father...
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