Introducing Chally

Hey, everyone. I’m Chally from Zero at the Bone and I’m joining the team here at Feministe. I am very excited and slightly terrified to be here!

You’ll be wanting to know a bit about me, then. I started blogging social justice at ZatB almost a year ago. Feel free to come by and visit, I enjoy comments. You can also find me on Twitter, and I’ve just joined tumblr and Dreamwidth, so you can follow/friend me at any of those places. I also write for an online bookclub of radical readers. Lastly, just a couple of weeks ago, a group of disabled feminists launched a group blog we call FWD/Forward, and it is really taking off. If you want to know anything about the intersection of feminism and disability activism, that’s your port of call.

I write a lot of personal stories, meta-activism and the like as well as more traditionally newsy blog posts and some light and fluffy stuff. Much of what I write is informed by my privileges, oppressions and identity markers, so here are some: I’m a non-white, cis, middle class, disabled woman. I consider that I’ve been a feminist all my life but only realised consciously in 2007. I enjoy feminist science fiction, knitting, Doctor Who, cake, all things theatrical and making the world a better place. I like long walks on the beach in the moonlight – no, wait.

Modly matters: I am disabled and on the other side of the planet from a fair portion of you – I live in Sydney, Australia – so you’ll have to excuse me if I take a long time to respond to your comments or emails. On which note, you can email me at chally [dot] zeroatthebone [at] gmail [dot] com, and please do. I have little tolerance for intolerance, if that makes any kind of sense, so keep that in mind when commenting.

Thank you to the rest of the Feministe crew for having me along for the ride. That’s about it, really. Any questions?