🔖 Read I Gained 70 Pounds During COVID. Here’s What Happened On My First Day Back In The Office. (HuffPost) by Emily McCombs
A good read; not nearly as dramatic as the headline makes it sound.
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
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Recent posts
🔖♿ Read Disability Status Shouldn’t Have a Hierarchy (Catapult) by s. e. smith.
Excellent column illuminating the challenges in and importance of recognizing disability as a spectrum of experiences.
📝 The programme for #FanLIS 2022 is live! I’ll be sharing my dissertation research on Friday, May 20. I’ll let you know when registration opens. If you are interested in fandom, libraries, and information science, check it out!
🔖📚 Read After the Green Ribbon (Catapult) by A. E. Osworth
The Green Ribbon is a favorite of mine. I love Osworth’s discussion of how it marks gender and symbolizes vulnerability. I want a world where masculinity embraces vulnerability.
🔖 Read My Mother Has Terminal Cancer, and I Can’t Seem to Stop Buying Sweaters (Catapult) by Rachel Vorona Cote
🔖 Read What Tarot Taught Me About the Stories We Tell (Catapult) by Mishka Hoosen
CW: Racism, rape
A beautiful meditation on one person’s relationship with the Tarot. My practice has fallen aside lately.
I have renewed and revitalized respect for sociologists after trying to quickly understand the sociology of space. Your theories seem impenetrable and yet you continue to build on them.
🔖 Read Teachers Are Told to Ignore Their Bodies, But Chronic Pain Made Me Listen to Mine (Catapult) by Chiara di Lello
🔖 Read The World Doesn’t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents) (Catapult) by Katie Rose Pryal
It breaks my heart when adults won’t figure out how to work with the kids in their lives who don’t conform.
🔖 Read twisty little passages (Catapult) by Jess Zimmerman.
A beautiful, heartbreaking short story told in the form of a text adventure.