FeelingElephants

Here's the story behind my blog's title.

I use the power of the internet to take human trafficking offline for my day job, but what I say here is mine, all mine.

The militarization of Starfleet and the future of the United Nations

I just returned from the midnight showing of Into Darkness, the newest in the Star Trek reboot, so if you don’t want spoilers, don’t read on.

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Fiction, Freedom and Fandom

If you haven’t listened to oral arguments in the Prop 8 or DOMA Supreme Court cases, you must. The issue of standing is important, particularly to Californians but to anyone from any state which doesn’t enforce all of its laws. They are also wonderfully funny in places. They are also profoundly clear sighted:

It’s worth [...]

My FanFiction Module is Up!

I spent this summer posting an intellectual property law syllabus on the H2O Project’s website, which was incredibly informative if a little dry (you can see what I did if you sign in as an Anonymous user, or you can request an account). But the joy of my summer was researching, designing, and building a [...]

McSweeny’s Does Sound of Music FanFiction, Quite Well In Fact

If you haven’t hung out on McSweeny’s you are missing a wonderful, occasionally surreal, experience. Recently a superhero of my acquaintance posted this piece of Sound of Music fanfiction from that site, titled “I Regret To Inform You That My Wedding To Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled.” If this is your sort of thing, [...]

Eventually, All the Characters Become Archetypes

If you’ve spent more than a day in my company in the past 9 months, you know I’ve become attached to a particular television show. Go on. Judge me all you want:

My experience of fandom tends to center around fanfiction–I wrote my thesis on it, so that makes sense. I like gifs (see: [...]