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Henry Pullan - Phogs! Original Soundtrack | Channel 3 Records | 2021 | "Phog Phur" Orange

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caitlin smith and mikayla isaacs photographed performing in sleeping beauty by ruth smith

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April 7th - 30 Days of Autism Acceptance

April 7: Talk about autism in the media. Do you think that autism is typically portayed well? Badly? Is there anything you'd like to see more of when it comes to autistic representation? Who are your favorite autistic characters? Do you have any headcanons?

Personally, I don’t think that there is enough representation of autism in the media. The only media platform that I’ve really seen a properly depicted autistic character in is a book I adore. Also, I’ve seen most autistics portrayed either as savants or incompetent. Autism is a diverse disorder and presents itself differently in everyone therefore, for an accurate representation of it, they have to show different presentations of it.

Personally, I would like to see more autistics in literature, TV shows, medias, etc. It would make the media all the more special to me if there was an autistic character in it. I want to find a media that has a strong, autistic lead (whether it be a superhero thing or just any genre) who’s autism is portrayed correctly. I do want to see more representation for women and girls on the spectrum also. However, I don’t think that every single book should have to have an autistic character in it. Some people have autism, some don’t. Not everyone has it therefore, I don’t expect every single media to have a character on the spectrum.

My favorite autistic character has to be Caitlin Smith from Kathryn Erskine’s book Mockingbird. I loved the book, although it is for a younger audience, and really connect with Caitlin. Also, although the presentation isn’t the best, I like Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. Symmetra (Satya Vaswani) from Overwatch is another favorite of mine; I really relate to her, especially so her need for things to be in her image of perfect. Additionally, I like Renee from the short film “Loop”; the portrayal of Level 3 Autism Spectrum Disorder in that short film has to be one of the best I’ve come across. Isadora Smackle from Girl Meets World is another character I hold dear to my heart.

I do have a few headcanons, but not too many when it comes to fandoms. I don’t really like to change the characters when writing fanfiction unless I get a specific idea; that also pertains to the subjects of ships: I almost always prefer the canon relationships over the fan-made ships. It’s just how I am, I dunno.

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When Elizabeth Warren took on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook earlier this week, it was a low moment for what New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz calls “techno-utopianism.” That the progressive, populist Massachusetts Senator and leading Democratic Presidential candidate wants to #BreakUpBigTech is not s…

When Elizabeth Warren took on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook earlier this week, it was a low moment for what New Yorker writer Andrew Marantz calls “techno-utopianism.”

That the progressive, populist Massachusetts Senator and leading Democratic Presidential candidate wants to #BreakUpBigTech is not surprising. But Warren’s choice to spotlight regulating and trust-busting Facebook was nonetheless noteworthy, because of what it represents on a philosophical level. Warren, along with like-minded political leaders, social activists, and tech critics, has begun to offer the first massively popular alternative to the massively popular wave of aggressive optimism and “genius” ambition that characterized tech culture for the past decade or two.

“No,” Warren and others seem to say, “your vision is not necessarily making the world a better place.” This is a major buzzkill for tech leaders who have made (positive) world-changing their number one calling card — more than profits, popularity, skyscrapers like San Francisco’s striking Salesforce Tower, or any other measure.

Enter Marantz, a longtime New Yorker staff writer and Brooklyn, N.Y. resident who has recently trained his attention on tech culture, following around iconic figures on both sides of what he sees as the divide of our time — not between tech greats whose successes make us all better and those who would stop them, but between the alternative figures on the “new right” and the self-understood liberals of Silicon Valley who, according to Marantz, have both contributed to “hijacking the American conversation.”

Digital Human, Series 18, Episode 2: Uncomfortable