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s.e. smith is a freelance writer and editor who has been working in the industry since 2006. As a writer, s.e. focuses primarily on non-fiction, especially sociological critiques, with interests and experiences covering a variety of topics, from asexuality to zoonotic diseases. New topics for articles and discussion are a constant quest. As an editor, [...]
Bitch Magazine: The Transcontinental Disability Choir: Glee-ful Appropriation
This show has been criticized from the start by activists decrying the use of crip drag, and the tokenization of minorities. The mainstream media caught on this week, releasing a flood of articles expressing shock and surprise about how disability activists were angry about Glee. This episode was evidently supposed to put it all to [...]
The Chemical Coshing of Sexuality
Make no mistake: disabled persons who want an independent sex life are routinely denied lives as sexual beings. Whether they are sterilised in institutions, forced to take medications in exchange for being allowed to live independently, or not informed about the sexual side-effects of medication, their voices are left out of the treatment decision-making, even [...]
Letter to the Editor
To the Board of Directors and Staff of MCDH and the Editor of the Advocate-News,
I was shocked to see the newspaper this morning and learn that a group of meddlesome individuals were attempting to restrict health choices for women in your facility on the basis of their own moral agenda. I was pleased to see [...]
Samples of My Work on Other Websites
“Industrialization of the chocolate industry also brought attention to its dark side, however. Many chocolate companies were accused of using child and slave labor in their plantations and factories…”
from “What is the History of Chocolate?” on wiseGEEK.
“Natural burial is part of a larger environmental movement, and has its roots in the trend towards simpler funerals [...]
An Ethicurean Dilemma
Published in the Point Reyes Light, October 2006
It was with great interest that I read the piece Chicken Slaughter: Killing Them Softly in the Pt. Reyes Light this week. In addition to being an eye-opening discussion of smaller scale poultry farming, the article also brought attention to the major loophole in the Humane Slaughter Act [...]