Cait Gordon's Blog, page 11
June 1, 2022
Happy Pride Month from this Watermelon!
Thanks to the folks who have explored their sexual identity beyond the more commonly known ones, I was able to find one then suited me more than cryptosexual! I still like to call myself Swirly (because I’m not straight) and often say my sexual identity is a paragraph and not a single word. But in …
May 31, 2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi is the Mental Health Representation I Really Need Right Now
Note: Kinda sorta spoilery. So, I am “I was a child when A New Hope came out” years old. I have been a massive Star Wars fan all of my life and a proudly self-labelled Star Wars Nerd. As an adult, I manage complex post traumatic syndrome (cPTSD), anxiety, and depression. My mental illness has …
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April 25, 2022
Executive Function: Am I a pro-hasten-ator? (On The Disabled Crone)
I have decided to go back to writing on my much-neglected The Disabled Crone Medium page. Today I discuss how I experience executive function as an autistic woman. Executive Function: Am I a pro-hasten-ator? is available now. I also noticed a read-aloud feature, but it read my EF acronym as EFF. So, just so you …
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March 10, 2022
Reclaiming Lazy
Originally posted on Spoonie Authors Network:
Among those of us who are neurodivergent (ND) and/or who manage mental illness, the word lazy has been stamped on our foreheads, like a much unwanted label, by people who just don’t understand our experience. Many of my friends who have ADHD, for example, have had their executive dysfunction…
Among those of us who are neurodivergent (ND) and/or who manage mental illness, the word lazy has been stamped on our foreheads, like a much unwanted label, by people who just don’t understand our experience. Many of my friends who have ADHD, for example, have had their executive dysfunction…
February 2, 2022
Book acceptance! A new crew is coming in 2023!
I did a teaser trailer about a cool thing that I announced yesterday! THOSE WITH LIGHT SENSITIVITY: I didn’t have a problem with the flickering border under the text or brief flash of light near the end (I have light sensitivity myself and didn’t find it that intense), but here’s a warning that it starts …
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January 20, 2022
How to Avoid Being Accidentally Ableist in Your Writing
Content note: I will be mentioning some ableist words, for educational purposes. Because I am a sensitivity editor for ableist terms and themes, I often get asked this question from writers who want to avoid ableism (without nuance) in their work: How can I stop using ableist phrases? Let me begin by saying that I, …
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January 10, 2022
It’s 2022! Still here, still queer—COVID’s a pain in my rear.
(I like to rhyme.) Hi, folks! Whew, we’re into year three of the pandemic, and so far I have not caught the virus because of my clever approach of “having absolutely no life outside my home and what is even time anymore and I think my medical support people are now my only real friends.” …
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December 13, 2021
The Wibbly-Wobbliness of Depression
Most people who interact with me in person or for the past 20+ months, virtually through video conferencing, know me to be a funny, laughing, and cheerful soul. Even these days. And I am knee-deep in depression. Before I go on, I want to let people know I am under the care of a doctor …
November 22, 2021
You beta believe I needed those readers!
Last week, I did a thing! I submitted Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! to the wonderful Renaissance, who has been the publisher of my previous novels and the anthologies I’ve co-edited. It was a supremely big deal for me to get to the submission stage because my brain has been greatly affected from …
October 1, 2021
What the heck has Cait been doing???
Hi, fellow followers! It’s been a good while since I’ve posted here. That’s because I took a work hiatus from my freelance editing career to focus on my latest WIP, Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! I am happy to say that the hiatus was successful and the first “season” of this episodic series …
