Activism
Double Rainbow: Stepping Back
This blog series is rapidly closing in on its second week and I have only just gotten started. I have a lot in mind to cover—autistic gender and sexuality in parents’ guides, autism and sex ed, the pathologization of gender non-normative behavior—and I have barely scratched the surface of... Read more »
Douchebag Decree: '60s Movie Star Kim Novak Dislikes a Movie, is a Complete Douche About It
Remember what a douchebag Johnny Depp was last year when he compared his many celebrity photoshoots to instances of rape? You’d think his fellow... Read more »
Childhood Obesity Campaign Still Bullying Fat Kids
You may have seen these ads last week from Atlanta’s Strong4Life Campaign, which attempt to let kids (and their parents) know that they are fat and shame/scare/bully... Read more »
Sm{art}: Eve Arnold
The first week of the new year brought with it the passing of Eve Arnold, one of the first women to earn recognition as a photojournalist in the mid-twentieth century. Though she is perhaps best known for capturing celebrities... Read more »
Marimacho Seeks Hunky Heartbreakers!
The super stylish folks at Marimacho—the masculine clothing line for cis women and transmasculine bodies—are launching a new Tumblr! To kick things off, they’re hosting a... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Sweet, Sweet "Chocolate"
I’m about to wax rhapsodic about a cheesy, transparently manipulative martial arts film. But seriously: Prachya Pinkaew’s 2008 movie Chocolate is the best film I’ve ever seen that features an autistic protagonist. And it’s the only piece of media I’ve... Read more »
Double Rainbow: Erasure and Asexuality
The result of prevailing cultural attitudes is that autistic people are perceived as inherently non-sexual. Not as asexual—the mainstream paradigm erases the experiences of asexual autists right along with those of other queer people on the spectrum.
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Double Rainbow: On Lisbeth Salander
When I first conceived the idea for this blog, I knew that I had to write a post about Lisbeth Salander. For the most part, any discussion of queer autistic sexuality in fiction must focus on lack, on the absence of representations, but Stieg Larsson’s lurid... Read more »
The 99%: Class Warfare and the Privileged Politics of Mitt Romney
The bigger farce, though, is Mitt Romney—the richest candidate in a decade, and the richest plausible candidate in far longer—claiming the President’s policies are class warfare. It’s... Read more »
Tampon Company Faux-pologizes For Transphobic Ad
Here’s your weekly does of bad-vertising: Libra, a company who markets feminine hygiene products in Australia and New Zealand, recently released an ad that trades in transphobia and sexism:
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