by Louise | 30 March 2017 | Encountering prejudice |
Which one of these do you think is a doctor? (Guess what, they all are!) Reading time: 2 minutes Last summer, I mediated a case with a woman from South America who was a family physician, but got called “Miss” at her practice while all the other doctors were called...
by Louise | 26 March 2017 | Essays | Tags: Love
An Old Emerson VCR Reading time: 2 minutes As I write this, Kyle is watching Starship Troopers with a bunch of his buddies from Stack Exchange. It reminded me of how Kyle and I used to have movie dates when we were still living in different cities. Kyle and I started...
by Louise | 23 March 2017 | Chapters, Growing-Up Years |
Reading time: 2 minutes Back in December, I wrote a post about the first time I shared a dwelling with someone who wasn’t white. Then in January, I wrote a post about how my memories of my black housemate are wrong, cause they were. So I’ve been wondering,...
by Louise | 19 March 2017 | Progress Updates |
Reading time: 2 minutes I hate it when writers write as though they aren’t the source of their own emotions, as though their emotions somehow exist separate from their actually feeling them. Especially when the writers are writing memoirs. I’m reading this memoir What...
by Louise | 16 March 2017 | Miscellaneous |
Comic Sans “a” on the left, Frutiger “a” on the right. Which letterform is more beautiful? Reading time: 5 minutes If I hate Comic Sans, am I ableist? I read this article on the website The Establishment, in which this woman writes that “Hating...
