SCOTUS We Have a Problem
Last Friday the Supreme Court of the United States decided in a unanimous decision to erase protest free buffer zones around abortion clinics. In addition, today they sided with Hobby Lobby in the...
View ArticleScare Quotes and Subtle Threats – Rape Culture in Games
Max Temkin, one of the creators of Cards Against Humanity (one of my favorite games ever) has been accused of rape. A woman has stepped forward and said “this happened to me.” As a survivor, I never...
View ArticleNo Girls Allowed
It seems oddly appropriate that this is the 200th published post on Feminist Sonar. I am so tired of being told, either implicitly or explicitly, that there are no girls allowed in games. It’s not just...
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Blind Lady Vs. Super Princess Peach
So. Normally I don’t post these until I’ve finished the game. Normally. This time, I hit a boss level, and despite a full day yesterday of trying to beat it (and nearly throwing my DS at the wall) I am...
View ArticleSomebody to Blame
This piece is not about Ray Rice. Shit. Until today, I didn’t know who the fuck Ray Rice was. I’m not a DV survivor. But I know people who are. I did survive emotional abuse from a partner. I have...
View ArticleI Don’t Want to Ask
Yesterday morning, as I was drinking my first cup of tea I was checking my facebook. Facebook recently is sort of a mine of pain and agony. On Monday, it was white feminists defending blackface...
View ArticleBlogging Against Disablism Day 2015: Home Again
Forgive me, readers. It has been 8 months since my last post. Feminist Sonar is my home. A place where I come to put my thoughts out into the world – a place where women with disabilities are the...
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Kersplodey Boom DISABLED FEMINISM!
This post will contain spoliers for Mad Max Fury Road and a spoiler for Game of Thrones’ episode “Unbowed. Unbent. Unbroken.” So I haven’t watched Game of Thrones yet. I know that Sansa Stark, who...
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Smashing Ableism with Intersectionality
About a year and a half ago now I moved into a house in the suburbs. When one of our neighbors came by to welcome us to the neighborhood, they came with some gifts. A nice bottle of champagne…. and a...
View ArticleReproductive Rights
Here’s the link to the twitter rant I went on this morning about voluntary sterilization, disabled reproductive rights, and how we need to change the way we talk about our rights. Thanks to...
View ArticleLoving 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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