Hi, I’m Matt. I’m a bunch of things, but here are some starting points to give you an idea where I’m coming from:
- disabled. I’m vision-impaired, and have been all my life. I also have multiple sclerosis;
- fat. Despite what the telly and the newspapers might lead one to think, there are worse things;
- feminist. I’m not sure it’s really useful to argue about whether one can be a feminist if one is male — opinions vary — so if you want to refer to me as a feminist-ally rather than as a feminist I’m not going to get into a fight with you about it;
- Australian. But deeply disinclined toward patriotism. There are better and worse (much worse!) places to have been born. I got lucky;
- technical geek. Particularly with respect to UNIX systems. I built a career of sorts out of this, but have recently gone haring off in a slightly different direction — these days I do terrible things with Perl to help make more accessible websites;
- socially progressive but economically literate. There will probably be posts about this. Many posts. You have been warned;
- history and politics nerd. Bit of a focus on western European and American history, Australian and American politics;
This is my personal blog. I’ll write about whatever takes my fancy.