If you are like me, you think space is neat. As a child, I devoured documentaries about Apollo. Everyone knows, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,” (Neil Armstrong wrote that. What a badass), but to be honest, I have always been much more moved by the thing Neil said before […]
Aaron Donaldson
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So Now What
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series exploring ableism and the rhetoric that sustains it. This may sound stupid, but there used to be these bushes on a railing where I work at Cal Poly Humboldt that made me mad nearly every day for two years. The railing is there to keep […]
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Walkies Only
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series exploring ableism and the rhetoric that sustains it. In the fall of 2015, I had no idea what I was walking into. My wife and I had agreed to a huge gamble. We gave up job security, a considerable chunk of our first ever consistent […]
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When We Walk Right By
Editor’s note: This is the first of a three-part series exploring ableism and the rhetoric that sustains it. I’m standing in the basement of Cal Poly Humboldt’s Founders Hall looking out the window at the rain while I wait for my ride home from work. Next to me is a student who is using crutches […]