Putting this art on my body, setting it apart even further from others, made me realize that disability is nothing if not queer. Think broadly: curious, odd, different, outside of our norms. Disability will do that to your body, orientation be damned. And that understanding gives mine the room to be everything it is.
These seem mostly focused on “wearable tech,” something which it isn’t unreasonable to send a press release about to an editor; magazines do write about Fitbits and their ilk fairly often. I, however, will almost definitely never do that unless they invent some wearable tech that plays the X Files theme every time you think you see something in your peripheral vision and then turn and there’s nothing there. If there is a PR list for that item, please add me to it. Until then, I do not usually open the IDTechEx emails.
A brain with depleted levels of serotonin does strange things. It makes an ex-girlfriend look like the only person who could ever have loved you, the last person who ever will. It makes the acquaintances she dates without regard to your feelings about it seem like close friends who’d stabbed you in the back. It throws around phrases like “stabbed you in the back” to describe pain that a person with enough serotonin would register at papercut level. Stinging, unfortunate, ignorable.
Our annual All-Ages Pride Party with @autostraddle is ON, and details are coming soon! For now, get yer rainbow markers out and save the date for:
Also, Kristin will be hanging out at the NYC Pride Festival on Sunday, June 26th!! Woooot!
MORE TO COME SOON, BBS!
Tfw you’re sitting on the toilet and listening to an Ally Coalition podcast with Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs you didn’t know existed until a few days ago and you hear there’s going to be a TEEN OFFSHOOT OF AUTOSTRADDLE?!?! And then you are jumping up and down flapping your hands in the bathroom. Yep.
kristin and riese have been scheming, y’all
