Welcome!
Based in Portland, Oregon I am a sports media professional that currently owns PinWheelEmpire.com, where I am the editor in chief and author. I am a senior at Portland State University majoring in Sociology and Women's Studies, with an emphasis on women in pop culture.
I have freelance works in both sports and sociology featured on several websites, including Beyondthebeat, Bustabucket, sexgenderbody, Feministing, Abortion Gang, BlogHer, Women Talk Sports and many other websites and sports blogs.
I have an accounting background and graduated from Carrington College in 2007 with an Associates of Medical Administration. I went on to attend Portland Community College, where I graduated in 2010 with an Associates of Accounting, University Partnership Program.
I am a passionate sports fan, who believes that the experiences of fans are the fabric of sports and in many ways, society. I would love to hear your feedback.
Sophia
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RT @erintothemax: Tell @washingtonpost to include factual discl. if they publish "abortion-inducing drugs" claim. http://t.co/00UBdb5J
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Photoset: Forever REBLOG - loving that I get to REBLOG YOU, TaoistSoul ;) http://t.co/fZwRfVbK
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coconut pancakes http://t.co/2tk7DFAJ
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Responsibility is good! http://t.co/1ZO0Tdkk
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Sadly... Yes. RT @dunsonchecksin: Is this real life?? smh RT @LilTunechi: David West for Gasol...!
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Cc @meesh_or RT @Jezebel: Man Divorces Wife After She Refuses To Get Rid of Her 550 Cats http://t.co/fDPt7oex
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RT @TheBrinkWilkins: @Sophiabiabia so you're saying there's a chance
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Quentin , my 7 year old son is SO happy Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez broke up, he's thinking he's got a chance with Selena :)
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i love this! http://t.co/4Aro6tMf
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@bsunshine_6 :( true . We gotta stick together! 💪😃🎀❤
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Ugh RT @MediaCupid: Hate Hockey? Hate Women? The CBC’s Women-Only Stanley Cup Feed Is For You http://t.co/KF0xhc6E
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Oh. This looks SAFE *head desk* RT @gimdog22: This captures it all: vegasslady's photo http://t.co/xaNkpkQF
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No late game ........ Gonna read and sleep early. Because damnit I'm tired !!!
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I'm in love with my new phone case :) its adorable .
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Awwww congrats :) RT @Bookgirl96: I'm weeping. My sister just got her Masters and I got to watch her. My parents would be so proud of her.
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:) RT @ezraklein: Don't worry guys, I know how to settle this. "Siri, did Mitt Romney's time at Bain prepare him for the presidency?"
Profile
Summary
I have freelance works in both sports and sociology featured on several websites, including Beyondthebeat, Bustabucket, sexgenderbody, Feministing, Abortion Gang, BlogHer, Women Talk Sports and many other online outlets.
I have an accounting background and graduated from Apollo(Carrington) College in 2007 with an Certificate of Medical Administration - Billing and Coding. I went on to attend Portland Community College, where I graduated in 2010 with an Associates of Accounting, University Transfer Program.
I am a passionate sports enthusiast that believes the experiences of fans are the fabric of sports. I strive to enhance that fan experience as a dedicated sports media professional.
Experience
- Jan 2011 - PresentManaging Editor / PinwheelEmpireAuthor and blogger following Portland Trail Blazers' Basketball Generating content and collaborating with writers across the country. Growth in membership every quarter. Manager of website content and content planning. Managing copy editor. Supervisor of Social Media content and outreach
- 2010 - PresentContributing Writer / Bustabucket.Com
- Feb 2010 - PresentGuest Host - Talkin' Ball / Comcast Sportland Net- Portland OregonOn panel discussing the Portland Trail Blazers, Current Sporting Events, and Oregon Sports.
- Apr 2007 - PresentConsumer Reimbursement Specialist / EBMS, INCAccount manager for over 100 business clients serving over a thousand employees. Medical reimbursement specialist that processed claims for business clients over 300 per day on average, during peak months, more than a 1000 claims processed daily. Assistant HRA/125 plan sales team, coordinate data and products for potential clients. Administer parking/transit reimbursement plans, in accordance to IRS code. Processing enrollee claims and management of enrollee accounts Turnaround on claims and requests on a daily basis. Auditing and managing client daily/weekly/monthly reports for client and records. Use of Excel, Outlook, Access, Adobe Acrobat and Word daily for various activities. Minimize paperwork through streamlining communication and report sharing by use of electronic methods. IRS/EBIA research knowledge. Release of and posting client funds while coordinating with the accounting department. Daily customer service via telephone and email. Data management, client outreach and multi-task. Develop meaningful relationships with enrollees as well as HR representatives in order to provide the exceptional service.
- Jan 2005 - PresentMedical Billing Specialist / AvastraCommunicate with insurance companies including the Veterans Administration. File, submit, and manage electronic claims filing. Responsible for overall operations of the small sleep clinic. Served the needs of the patients from scheduling to initial intake. Insurance verification, prior authorization and confirmation . Assist clinic general manager with payroll reporting and general HR duties. Tracking and managing accounts payable and accounts receivable. Preparing HCFA 1500 with appropriate coding for each procedure or office visit Medical records management Generating and tracking patient bills and/or accounts Data management regarding patient return rate, physician referral rates and occupancy rates
Education
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2006 - 2012Portland State UniversityBachelor in SociologyActivities: Debate Team Student Government Journalism
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2009 - 2010Portland Community CollegeAssociate in Accounting
- Apollo College
- Portland Community CollegeAssociates Arts Accounting; 2008
- Portland State UniversityDegree: Bachelors in Science Sociology
Posts
This is Anthony Johnson. He’s the chaplain for the Jacksonville Jaguars. He’s also a very vocal and extremely worrisome protester at our clinic.
“Anthony Johnson, Jacksonville Jaguars chaplain, told them how much Jesus loved them and what He expected of them.” http://www.operationsaveamerica.org/2012/03/28/saints-in-jacksonville-fl-given-em-heaven-at-the-gates/
I don’t think the Jaguars would like to hear that he spends his free time yelling at people as they enter the clinic, trespassing, etc. Do you?
Wow.
Um OMG
Mitt Romney, in 1965 as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School:
“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.
A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.So not gay of Mitt to do that. *wink*
So, there’s this.
Joe Bovino’s ‘Field Guide To Chicks Of The United States’ May Be Worst Book Ever
This is awful.
“The book, now available for pre-order at the bargain price of $25.99 (I suspect that you’re whipping out your wallets right now), claims to be “an entertaining and insightful guide to spotting, identifying, and appreciating subcultures (or ‘species’) of women across the United States, also known as ‘chickspotting.’” But of course, the book isn’t just for straight dudes, it’s also for (straight) single women, so that they can “keep an eye on the competition and pick up valuable inside information.
Oh good. An illustrated, sexist caricature about a dude who thinks he knows anything about women. Great.
Do pro-life activists honestly not see the implications of their activism or do they think that being pro-life just involves their shitty opinions and smiling with babies?
Like what you actually do is harbor harmful ideologies and vote for people who have those same harmful ideologies with hope that they’ll write bills and pass laws projecting your morals onto other actual people. But omg don’t shove your morals/gay liberal godless sex murder party opinions down my throat!
Pretending that all you do is smile and share an opinion that has absolutely no ramifications (especially for other people that are not you) is ludicrous.
Amen
Irony in using religious word in response to your response noted
She ( Nanny) put herself on a boat to the New World to come free her people. She was the leader of her tribe. She was an African queen who put herself into captivity to come to the West in order to be with her people so that she could free them. She didn’t come as a slave; it was her own plan. — Folk Historian Naakaa Cush via Karla Gottleib
Nanny, Queen of the Maroons, born into the Akan ethnic group in Ghana in the 1680’s ,lived to become one of the greatest freedom fighters of the New World.
Grandy Nanny was a chieftaness, a leader of Jamaica’s Windward Maroons, who successfully waged war with and held off the greatest military power on earth from 1724 to 1739 suffering only one majour defeat in 1734 at Nanny Town when the British, having managed to surprise the Maroons as they slept, fired upon them with portable swivel guns.
Historians acknowledge her as a master military strategist who developed and excelled at guerilla warfare. She perfected the art of camouflage and created a system of long- distance communication using the Abeng, a cow horn with a hole drilled at one end. Sophisticated Maroon communications put British troops at helpless disadvantage in the hills of Jamaica.
In the 1730’s, the war’s period of the most-intense fighting, the Maroons suffered only about 100 casualties while the British losses numbered in the thousands.
Nanny was named a National Hero for Jamaica in 1976.
“WHY DO I ALWAYS GET FRIENDZONED? SHE ALWAYS PICKS THE ASSHOLE OVER ME. I’M A NICE GUY.”
“I LISTEN TO HER WHEN SHE HAVE PROBLEMS; MY SHOULDER IS THERE FOR HER TO CRY ON WHEN SHE’S DUMPED OR CHEATED ON; I’M ALWAYS THERE FOR HER WHEN SHE NEEDS SOMEONE THE MOST! WHY WON’T SHE LOVE ME?”
“WOMEN WHO DON’T WANT TO DATE THEIR GUY FRIEND IS JUST A SLUT AND A DAMN TEASE!”
And on and on.
Dear Men,
How fucking dare you IMPLY that women are not allowed to have male friends, especially if she’s already taken.
How fucking dare you IMPLY that woman are not allowed to have male friends, especially if YOU want to date her but she doesn’t feel the same way.
Who the FUCK are you to bitch and whine about how your female friend is a slut because she DARED exercise her freedom to REJECT your advancements; to REJECT your proposal to sex; to REJECT your proposal to a romantic relationship?
The THREE Situations of Being Friendzoned:
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- You have a female friend.
- You have been friends with her for ten years.
- Your female friend has been in a long-term relationship.
- The long-term relationship has always been rocky.
- Your female friend has always gone to you for comfort.
- You feel your female friend deserves better.
- You ask your female friend to abandon her long-term relationship for you.
- She says that she loves you as a friend and only as a friend.
- You bitch and moan and tell her how ungrateful she is.
Congratulations. You’re a selfish, self-centered prick. You have just proven to her why she only loves you as a friend.
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- You have a female friend.
- You have been friends with her for ten years.
- In those ten years, you have stuck by her through her numerous, failed relationships.
- You feel she deserves better.
- You ask your female friend to be with you.
- She tells you that she loves you, but only as a friend.
- You bitch and moan and tell her how ungrateful she is.
Congratulations. You’re a selfish, self-centered prick. You have just proven to her why she only loves you as a friend.
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- You have a female friend.
- You have been friends with her for ten years.
- You know she only loves you as a friend.
- You continue to stick around, watching her date “asshole” after “asshole”.
- You take advantage of her after every breakup, when she’s emotionally vulnerable, pushing and demanding that she tell you why she won’t date you.
- She keeps telling you that she loves you as a friend; that she doesn’t want to ruin what the two of you already have; she’s just not interested in you in that sort of way.
- You bitch and moan and tell her how ungrateful she is; you call her a slut and a tease.
Congratulations. You’re a selfish, self-centered prick. You have just proven to her why she only loves you as a friend.
Let me fucking tell you something: When your female friend, or ANY woman for that matter, tells you NO, then take the fucking hint. Do not act like a little child who didn’t get his toy train for Christmas. The both of you came together as friends and for the longest time, she believed there was a mutual understanding. You suddenly wanting something more then getting upset with HER when she doesn’t want to the same as you makes you SELFISH and immature.
A woman is not a “tease” or a “whore” because she prefers male friends over female friends; she is not “leading you on” all because she doesn’t want to comply with YOUR wishes of wanting her to be with you; she is not a “heartless/shallow bitch” because she’s not sexually/romantically interested in you or your type but still sees you as a loyal and dependable friend.
The only one who is a bitch in any of this is YOU. Instead of respecting her wishes and either keeping the friendship or moving on, you treat her like shit because, what? YOU DIDN’T GET YOUR WAY? Because you FEEL like she somehow OWES you for the years you were her friend?
You don’t call the shots in ANYTHING that concerns a woman, much less who she should and should not be interested in. Get the fuck over yourselves, you fucking tittybabies, and stop blaming females for your unwarranted asshurt.Then there’s also this breakdown:
- You’re not a real friend if you do this.
- You don’t deserve anyone you do this to.
- You don’t really love someone if you do this to them, romantically or platonically.
- You’re not actually a nice person if you do this.
Brilliant
Do any other transguys/feminists/people find this really offensive?
Yes , very offensive
What they did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world. They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as they ran the world. We as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. Give ‘em hell, kids.
This
A. Nobody really understands the NBA draft. The idea that a GM could reliably say, “I know exactly how the difference between the no. 4 and no. 6 picks will play out” is absolutely ludicrous.
B. If the Sonics had the first pick in the 2007 draft, they would have taken Greg Oden (another…
I love bill Simmons
I’m starting to get very angry at reviews that say HBO’s “Girls” is some kind of statement on Generation Y.
This is not what my generation is about.
We are not a generation of spoiled white hipsters who live in cushy apartments with our BFF’s, financed by our parents, with…
THISSSSS
Woman with lily c. 1903 by Eva Watson-Schütze [more]
also from George Eastman House
I adore this…
There is NO SUCH THING as “NO ABORTIONS.” There is only such a thing as “NO SAFE ABORTIONS.”
Exactly this.
Forever REBLOG - good work @scaTX

