Check Your Ability: On OwnVoices Disability Representation

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I’m coming at you with a quite long but very important post that I hope you’ll at least skim through til the end. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you’ll recall a tweet I made a few weeks ago about the abysmal disability (physical and mental) representation in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. That tweet spurred a lot of great conversation, particularly from the disabled writing community, and it struck me just how invisible disabled voices are to the able-bodied/neurotypical population.

Goals and Gut Checks: June 2019

Hey everyone! I hope everyone’s had a great month of May and a lovely start to June. I know this is a bit late for a monthly wrap up post, but I’ve unfortunately been swamped at my job and then been way too tired to do much else when I do get free time. It’s also why I haven’t been able to read as many of your wrap up posts as I would have liked, but from what I’ve seen, May was an overall good month, and there’s an air of positivity going into June! As for myself, I’d say I’m on a similar wavelength.

Goals and Gut Checks: May 2019

Hey everyone! I hope you’ve all had a pleasant end to April and a great start to May (and not stuck in abysmally dreary and cold weather like me weeps.) It’s about that time that everyone’s doing their monthly wrap up and reflections, and I too had started writing a post yesterday laying out my April reading progress and May TBR.

But it felt really forced. It’s a me thing–I’m the kind of person who can’t even remember what I ate for lunch, let alone reflect on the entire month of April. But more than that, I’ve made it pretty obvious to myself that I’m not one for following set TBR lists. My TBR shelf is constantly molding and evolving because of a variety of things: my mood, the library system, pressure to read and review ARCs, etc. So it’s hard for me to follow the standard wrap-up and next month’s TBR template because if I measure myself by how well I met my TBR goal at the beginning of the month, I’m going to feel like a failure.

So I decided to try something new, something that works for me. I wanted to make sure I measured my monthly growth and progress in a way that encourages and benefits me, rather than one that stresses me out. Here’s what I’ve come up with:

Blogger Recognition Award

Hi everyone! I’m incredibly honored to have been nominated for this award by a fellow blogger. Thank you Surina @ The Bloggisters for tagging me in this! They’ve got an absolutely GORGEOUS blog, the kind I totally aspire to cultivate, and they’re reading some really cool stuff so definitely check Surina’s blog out!