by Tasha Fierce | Sep 2, 2017 | talkin' greasy, writing on writing
Sometimes the magnitude of my lack of knowledge leaves me wordless. I wonder how it is to be so sure you have all the answers that you’re willing to write about basically any topic with little to no knowledge — confidently. How it is to write about, say,...
by Tasha Fierce | Jul 24, 2017 | capitalism, politics, racism & white supremacy
Representation and participation in the existing political and economic system, for oppressed peoples, will not produce lasting change no matter how many of us manage to infiltrate it. In struggles for liberation of oppressed people, some of us choose to do a portion...
by Tasha Fierce | Jul 12, 2017 | my kind of crazy, science and technology, writing on writing
I am a child of the Internet: I first started using my dad’s Apple IIe when I was about 6, and two years later I was firing up ye olde 2600 baud modem on my mom’s new Packard Bell 386 to try out Prodigy for DOS. It was 1988, before the WWW was even...
by Tasha Fierce | May 5, 2017 | disability, my kind of crazy
For the last 5 weeks, I have been psych med free. I’m kind of ecstatic. I’ve been on some kind of psychiatric medication since I was 14 years old. I’m 37 now. For nearly 23 years of my life – the majority – I’ve lived under a kind...
by Tasha Fierce | Feb 28, 2017 | politics
As a Western society, we here in the U.S. are prone to viewing health in a compartmental manner. Even most religious folks buy into the Western model of medicine, save for a few who turn to prayer when disease strikes rather than accept medical interventions....
