Writing

June 30, 2025

Clair Obscur: To be accountable to those that come after

CROSSPOST FROM COMRADERY. Part of a three part series: Disability (part 1), Right to Exist (part 2), and Accountability and Healing (part 3). In my prior essays, I related themes woven through Clair Obscur to show how it can parallel real world complexities and oppression. For the character of Alicia and Gustave (and even Lune Continue reading

Author, Characters, disability, Feminism, Game Writing, Reviews, Writing

abuse, accountability, Characters, clair obscur: expedition 33, disability, Game analysis, game narrative, healing, healing journey, justice, mental health, narrative analysis, responsibility, transformative justice, writing
June 20, 2025

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 – That which hides hope with scars

CROSSPOST FROM MY COMADERY. Part of a three part series: Disability (part 1), Right to Exist (part 2), and Accountability and Healing (part 3). It may come as a surprise for some players to call Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 a Disabled narrative, and yet that is essential to the core of the story. Several of Continue reading

Blogging, disability, Game Writing, History, Labor, Reviews, Writing

Analyzing Video Games, anti-capitalism, capitalism, Characters, collective care, Culture of care, Deconstruction, disabilities, disability, disability justice, disabled, games, healing, healing from abuse, History of Disability, inclusion, justice, mental health, PTSD, video games, writing
February 17, 2025

A History Lesson: Disabled Activists and our Right to Exist in Public

For a History Lesson and reminder of the role Disabled people have played in activism, I singled out a few instances, but there’s hundreds of thousands throughout America’s history. Many of the privileges and rights people have had are due partly to the fight of our disabled ancestors. Continue reading

activism, disability, Feminism, History, Race, transgender, Writing

activism, civil rights, disabilities, disability, disability justice, disabled, disabled history, human rights, insane asylums, intersectional feminism, justice, labor strikes, Race, section 504, strikes, ugly laws
August 12, 2023

The traumatic Reality

People are suffering from several massively terrifying things all at once: Why do you think so many went along with Nazism in the 30s? Why do you think people turned a blind eye to the horrors done to the Black community again and again? Why do you think people refused to acknowledge AIDS? Acknowledging reality Continue reading

Writing

collective grief, collective solidarity, covid, ego death, empathy, gaslighting, individualism, lack of ego death, mutual aid, pandemic, pandemic mitigations, solidarity, trauma, truth-telling
September 6, 2022

Ways of Learning

Curiosity, Creativity, Compassion, and Cooperation are the 4 C’s of human nature. A fifth C is the darker side of our nature: Control. In past (and non-western or Indigenous) societies, they educated their youth through self-directed learning that required a high level of respect, cooperation, creativity, and mutual exploration. Adults guided the children rather than Continue reading

activism, Author, Blogging, Books, History, Philosophy, Race, Writing

capitalism, critical pedagogy, dismantling whiteness, education, equality, equity, justice, liberation, Paulo Freire, theory of social control, unlearning capitalism, unlearning colonialism, unlearning imperalism, unschooling, white supremacy
February 8, 2022

My Open Letter to City Designers

Originally posted on Reshaping Reality: I originally wrote this email for the Des Moines City Council. For the past month, I’ve adjusted the verbiage to reflect what I’ve heard in their City Council Meetings with the Public. I also adjust the bullet points and actions I wish to see them take. Otherwise, most of the… Continue reading

Writing
November 14, 2021

Let’s Unlearn Capitalism Myths

I think this needs said: The framework that society shoved into us is capitalistic and it tries to teach us that the capitalistic view of reality is the ONLY view. This socialization is full of myths that aren’t actually true. There are many worlds within our biosphere of Earth, and we need to understand that Continue reading

activism, Author, Books, disability, Feminism, History, nature, Philosophy, Physics, Race, Science, Writing

anti-capitalism, anti-imperalism, anti-racism, capitalism, colonialism, corporations, doughnut economics, feminism, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, intersectionality, objectivity vs subjectivity, pluriverse, Race, racial capitalism, regenerative economy, Relationality
August 22, 2021

Deconstructing worldviews

“The notion of a “one-world-world” (OWW) is predicated on the West’s ability to arrogate to itself the right to be “the world” and to relegate all other worlds to its rules, to a state of subordination, or to nonexistence. It is thus an imperialist, colonial notion.” (chapter 1 of Pluriverse Politics by Arturo Escobar) So Continue reading

activism, nature, Philosophy, Physics, Writing

anti-capitalism, anti-capitalist, anti-imperalism, Arturo Escobar, climate justice, decolonize, imagination, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, justice, organizing, philosophy, science, settler-colonialism, ways of thinking
August 15, 2021

Nucleation Review

Nucleation by Kimberly Unger Overall Thoughts: For a science fiction tale, this book not only impressed me with its use of physics, specifically entanglement of particles, but blew me away with its scope of imagination. The characters leapt off the page with such personality, and the book kept twisting and turning with surprises every step Continue reading

Aliens, Blogging, Books, Science, Writing

aliens, book reviews, mystery, nanotechnology, physics, science, science fiction, writing
April 24, 2021

We Are the Fire

We Are the Fire By Aidan Zingler Words pull push, agitate, infuriateI’m the fury of the world not seen.I beg, I cajole, I reason, I askI’m the pain of the dead not seen.Time is running out, time is running Black Lives burn bright and extinguish, Stars howl their sorrow at their lossDisabled flames smolder and Continue reading

Author, disability, Feminism, Poetry, Race, transgender, Writing

Abolition, anti-racism, creation, Disabled Lives Matter, feminism, justice, Movements, oppression, poetry, Race, social justice