October 2nd, 2007
I have had to sit myself down and take a good hard look at the reality: my brain is broken.
I don’t know if it has always been broken. I suspect so. I suspect that my father’s line carries some kind of hereditary brain-brokenness; of course, it’s hard to know which comes first, […]
May 1st, 2007
Sorry, this is taken down. It’s just too personal.
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Amy's Brain Today
February 7th, 2007
Rain and Thunder wants your writing! Their current call for contributions is on Women’s Writing and Literature–deadline March 5, 2007. For more information, see their writers’ guidelines and contributions page.
Accessing Alliances: Disability Studies Across the Curriculum, a conference at George Washington University in Washington, DC, February 22-23, 2007. (Thanks to J.Ha for […]
July 17th, 2006
The crip and the fat chick met in a church parking lot one grey and muggy late June day. The fat chick was cranky; churches make her tense and she wasn’t sure she really wanted to be there. The crip, who to the fat chick looked like a regular woman sitting in a […]
February 24th, 2006
“I was diagnosed with a myriad of mental health problems in 2001 and among the numerous (12!) drugs that were ultimately prescribed for me over the first six months following my diagnosis, the one that worked the best has the side effect of significant weight gain. I gained 120 pounds in about a year. […]