Neurotypical Awareness: The Gifts That Awareness Brings
© 2013 by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
Changing the Cultural Conversation
© 2013 by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
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Welcome to my blog! I'm a writer, photographer, and activist passionate about disability rights.
I hold a Master's degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where I taught freshman composition and sophomore literature as a graduate student instructor for three years. After graduate school, I began a fifteen-year career as a technical writer in the networking and telecommunications fields for such companies as Novell and Lucent Technologies. I'm currently pursuing my second Master's degree, this time in History and Culture, at Union Institute and University. My field of concentration is Disability Studies.
On this site, I'll share my reflections on my reading, analyze representations of disability in textual and visual media, and look at ideas for creating counter-representations that interrupt mainstream narratives.
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Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg
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Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt
4/25/2013 | 1:37 pm Permalink
Rachel,
These creations of yours are hilarious. Thank you for putting them out in public.
As an NT myself, reasonably aware, I’m always learning new things, and laughing at my foibles is one of the best ways.
No matter how hard an NT tries, they can never be perfect – but this kind of stuff acknowledges that some of us can and do try.
I love your gentle touch – and the times when being gentle is entirely the wrong approach, and you tell it like it is.