My name is Allison Polk. I've been blogging since 2004 when I was a bored-at-home undergraduate-cum-housewife. I am no longer bored at home, am about to finish my MFA in writing at Goddard College, and am a single working mom to L'il Red. And I wouldn't change a damn thing.
When L'il Red was about fifteen months old, I got fed up with her pediatrician who insisted there was something wrong with my baby’s language. Since I'm deaf and very contentedly so, I figured she was being another ignorant hearing pediatrician who didn’t recognize the validity of American Sign Language as a bona fide language and whisked my kid off to the audiologist to prove her wrong. I’ve been kicking myself in the ass ever since. Now we’re a bilingual family, primarily communicating in ASL, but also using cued English, with which I grew up.
I blog about sex, gender, parenthood, writing, that deaf stuff, popular culture, and occasionally a good fart joke.
Alpo is my nickname, QueenAlpo in some cases. Blame the "Alpo" on a high school boyfriend. He thought he was being cute. He was cute. Until he decided my best friend was cuter, that is, and ran away – twice – to see if she would go out with him. She said no. Yay for karma.
