A Cat Named Autism
I think I want to get a cat and name it Autism. Then I’d be a family with autism. Or, maybe I’ll name it Depression and be a family with depression. Mental Illness might be another option, so I can...
View ArticleNine Years of Transition, “Are we there yet?!”
Today, I am thinking about the last nine years, and the impact of gender transition on my life. Nine years ago today, my marriage effectively ended when I told my former spouse that I needed to...
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Mental Health and Miracle Cures
Another January and another month with an advertising campaign for a major telecom company that masquerades as concern for mental health. A campaign that is supposed to make those of us with mental...
View ArticleAutism Awareness Flag Raising 2018
Yet another day and month with a focus on a marginalized people. March 31st was Transgender Day of Visibility. April is a month that focuses on autism and April 2nd was Autism Awareness day. Notice...
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Whistle While You Hate
Author ‘Nathan Burgoine is hosting monthly flash fiction. May’s edition asked for Science Fiction, set above the clouds, with a dog whistle. I leave above the clouds in this one to be a clouded...
View ArticleCall for Submissions—Nothing Without Us anthology
I am pleased to announce this call for submissions to the Nothing Without Us anthology of short fiction edited by myself, Talia “The Brain” Johnson, and Cait “Pinky” Gordon. via Call for...
View ArticleThe Wheels on the Bus go Bump, Bump, Bump
There’s a children’s song with the words, “The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round.” In Ontario over the last month, and specifically on March 7th, they have been going bump, bump,...
View ArticleSchool Daze Ahead
It’s almost the end of July and the past few months have been interesting. The Nothing Without Us anthology of disability fiction is now at the last proofreading stage before layout and final...
View ArticleAtonement
Today is a stressful day for trans folk and LGBTQIA+ in the United States and also many of us who are paying attention and/or have friends in the USA. I wrote this poem a couple of years ago as a...
View ArticleOntario Autism Placation
Over the past two years life has been more fraught than ever for autistics in Ontario. It all began when the provincial Conservative government decided to trash the existing Ontario Autism Plan and...
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