I kept meaning to do these wonderful posts on all these topics individually to make them easy to find again and then I remembered I’m a sick person with no fucking spoons, so here it is, a randoms post. Disclaimering @OneGirlAndHerCows made an Instagram story post in March this year about disclaimering abilities. And […]
Author: Vanessa Smith
Performing Disabled
I came across a fantastic Instagram post about how …shock horror, disabilities can disable us! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ella 🦆🌈🌻 (@_ellawillis) The comments were also fantastic and got into the “reason vs excuse” narrative and one comment I loved by VeganYori was “I always say ‘it’s not an excuse, […]
The Done List I’m trialling in 2024
A few years ago I heard about the concept of a done list. I could use a “have done” list right now. Small steps are so easy to ignore. https://t.co/ENjToBZH5x — Vanessa Smith (@normal_ness) March 1, 2022 Tweet reads: “I could use a “have done” list right now. Small steps are so easy […]
No more NaNo for me
It’s probably an odd thing to write a blog post about. But the reason I’m doing this is because I’ve written blog posts in the past about NaNoWriMo and seeing as I no longer feel like it’s ethical to support the organisation, it feels weird to just leave the posts up with no notes. Leaving […]
Real or not real?
Is it a common experience that people have been trying to speak for you your whole life? I don’t know if this happens to everyone, happens to no one and it’s part of the bad parts of my life, or happens to people in age appropriate ways eg in childhood and lessens through teen hood. […]
Good Creativity Guides
Good Creativity Guides Are there any books on creativity that are a) non dictatorial FOLLOW MY LEAD AND DO ALL MY STEPS OR ELSE and b) non ableist I CAN’T WORK HARD SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME? A) is kind of interesting. In online business circles people are finally starting to wake […]
Disabled Resilience
I’m having a very frustrating day today, and I think what makes it frustrating is the layers. It’s the layers of expecting to have to deal with shitty humans on top of your shitty body. Why? Can we not catch a break? Everyone wants to celebrate the resilience of people with a disability, but no […]
Quality Obligation
I was reading a book that talked only about sharing things that were helpful. Not the first time I’ve read that and seen it demanded of all social media users. The problem is, it applies (badly) to BUSINESS social media. And it leaves out the human and social sides. Social media remember, […]
What if I don’t want to work anymore?
This is a tweet I shared last year. If you were around me in 2023 you know I’ve been through mega fucking piles of fucking ableist wank bullshit. (And yes, that’s the nicest way I can put it.) I’m starting a blog post on an “unacceptable” topic: What if I don’t want to work […]
Murders of Sand
This came to me via terrible YouTube captioning. It was supposed to say “emergency decent” but yeah… too bad if you have anything other than a perfect American accent when it comes to audio auto captions. I just really liked it. It would make a good book title. I’m not sure what the book would […]