My Thoughts on "Autistic Bikini Queen"...

Fern Riley's comedy from Power and Chaos 

I’m not sure what I expected from a comedy special called “Autistic Bikini Queen” that I found in the Recently Added Section of Netflix—no, that’s not quite true. Because, in a whiff of lateral and internal ableism—that is, to say disability discrimination that we have learned to aim at other disabled people as if life is one long evaluation that my former suck-up energy will allow me to score well on—I fully expected comedian Fern Riley to be built like a brick wall that might or might not have body odor. Like, the whole “Bikini Queen” thing is ironic as calling an old guy “young man” or some shit. I think I was wrong about that in a way I’m often wrong, but I think it’s important to document such things as a path to growth. More to the point, she’s funny and great to watch.

Fern isn’t glamorous, but if she really defines herself as a “hot autistic woman”, I wouldn’t disagree.Even if she’s not all that into eye-contact—an obsession American culture has that I don’t share, whether due to being stared at, or my own(comparatively minor) neuro-divergence, I’m not really sure.

 

 

Well, this was unexpected...

 though I don't suppose there's an established route toa parody of the Second Coming but I did wonder if I was going to have my character raise it as well.

In Which The Algorithm Chooses Well...Mania...

 

I’m not as pissed at the Netflix algorithm as I should be for its thinking I like Health stuff after I watched Crip Camp a few months ago—definitely better than when Facebook thinks I’m doing charity when I write the word “disability” in my posting. The Australian limited seriesAustralian limited series, on Netflix focuses on Liv Healy, hard-living food and lifestyle reporter who has a health scare that threatens her visa back to her life in New York(probably due to public-charge rules” rules that make someone who might need benefits an inadmissible green-card candidate; your Bohemian Crip can cross “leaving the country” off her list of ways to cope with the Burgeoning Crisis Of Democracy. A theoretical loss, but still, sometimes keenly felt.as most discrimination is.)

Mostly the show is funny, despite dealing with bodily frailty, mortality, and the ways in which we don’t share our feelings with our intimates. Celeste Barber, as Liv, brings the right mix of humor, good times, and bull-in-a-china shop to  Liv’s zig-zagging quest to clean up her act and face some things she’d rather not.