About Ouyang Dan
is an extremely proggy-liberal, formerly single mommy, Native American, invisibly disabled, U.S. Navy Veteran, social justice activist and aspiring freelance writer currently living in South Korea on Uncle Sam's dime. She has a super human tolerance for caffeine and chocolate and believes she should use those powers for good. She said should.
She is not a concise person, and sometimes comes on a little aggressively in comments. Sometimes her right arm still twitches when military brass walks past her, but she would rather be reading YA Lit or pwning n00bs.
She can be found being cliche about music, overthinking pop culture, and grumbling about whatever else suits her fancy at her personal website, random babble.... She also writes about military issues for Change.org's Women's Rights blog.
If you have something interesting to say email her at ouyangdan [at] disabledfeminists [dot] com. Lawyers in Italy looking to hold lottery winnings in her bank account may wait longer for reply.
Website: http://disabledfeminists.com
Contact: Ouyang Dan @ disabledfeminists.com
Posts by Ouyang Dan
By Ouyang Dan on 30 November, 2010
I have a love of cooking that often times taps me all the way to the bottom of my silverware drawer. I will often borrow tomorrow’s spoons to finish what I want to do today… I am sure that some of this is drawn of my stubborn and bullheaded nature. To assist me in my [...]
Posted in happy posts, Uncategorized | Tagged things that make my life easier
By Ouyang Dan on 28 November, 2010
It’s odd how we sometimes take the habits of our children for granted. I have a particularly chatty child. I can’t imagine where she gets her penchant for being a non-concise story-teller. Really. I can’t. But when it is early in the morning and I haven’t had a chance to heave my second cup of [...]
Posted in intersectionality, parenting, small stories | Tagged parents with disabilities
By Ouyang Dan on 26 November, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By Ouyang Dan on 22 November, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By Ouyang Dan on 21 November, 2010
I think we can make this short and sweet, so let’s jump right in, shall we? Miss Manners fields a Veterans’ Day Special from Every Military Person, Everywhere! We members of the military would be honored if you could address military funeral etiquette for Veterans Day. Naturally, I jest, but I do take minor exception [...]
Posted in Dear Imprudence, intersectionality | Tagged military
By Ouyang Dan on 18 November, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By Ouyang Dan on 15 November, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading
By Ouyang Dan on 12 November, 2010
[The scene sets with OYD, a slightly pale yet never-the-less still quite indigenous woman, sitting down to her trusty Macbook Pro, a laptop named "Lappy", who has seen better days. She sets down and opens up her "drafts" tab under FWD/Forward, where she notices that egads! she has been working on this book review for over [...]
Posted in books, intersectionality, media and pop culture, poverty, race, Uncategorized | Tagged -ist language, ableist language, books, diability, disability and poverty, poverty, race, Sherman Alexie, stereotypes, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
By Ouyang Dan on 12 November, 2010
I received a message on Facebook today (my personal account, not FWD/Forward’s account, which is not currently being updated because *ahem* Facebook seems to refuse to fix their blog importing tool and I can’t keep up with manually posting it every day…but I plan to try… /Facebookrant). It was one of those “fun meme” invitations, [...]
Posted in i'm right here, intersectionality, life changes, military, oyd rants | Tagged Veterans' Day
By Ouyang Dan on 8 November, 2010
Warning: Offsite links are not safe spaces. Articles and comments in the links may contain ableist, sexist, and other -ist language and ideas of varying intensity. Opinions expressed in the articles may not reflect the opinions held by the compiler of the post and links are provided as topics of interest and exploration only. I [...]
Posted in recommended reading
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