A Blue Christmas
A little article about the holiday blues, featuring Reylo fanfiction and dramatic reactions to silly inconveniences. Continue reading A Blue Christmas
Category: Mental Health
Bean Passed the Bar! (So Let’s Talk About Failure)
I tell a story about my sister, Bean, and her success, and then I talk a lot about failure Continue reading Bean Passed the Bar! (So Let’s Talk About Failure)
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, and The Privilege of Representation
This post is about the privilege of feeling represented in the media. I originally wrote it as part of a class assignment, but I wanted to share it. Continue reading “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”, and The Privilege of Representation
Disability Employment and Public Accounting: Extended Edition
A few weeks back, I asked several coworkers, friends, and former classmates if anyone would be interested in interviewing for my project. I told them that the official project would be a 3-minute audio story. For those interested, here is the original for comparison: I collected over 4 hours of raw audio. It turns out when you ask to interview people about a niche topic … Continue reading Disability Employment and Public Accounting: Extended Edition
Disability Employment, Public Accounting, and Self-Advocacy
Putting together the final draft of this audio story was both challenging and incredibly exciting. Disability employment has been an interest (and concern) of mine for the past few years. I saw this project as an opportunity to amplify the voices of disabled people in the workforce, and their participation was vital to the success of this story. It is not easy to represent diverse … Continue reading Disability Employment, Public Accounting, and Self-Advocacy
Disability and Public Accounting
Living with a disability in the United States is hard and expensive. The National Disability Institute produced a research paper studying this inequality. Researchers determined that a household containing an adult with a disability that impacted their ability to work required about 28% more income to achieve the same standard of living than a household without a disabled individual. That amount is approximately $17,690 for … Continue reading Disability and Public Accounting
Happy Hagfish 