The Racism False Equivalence Strikes Again
Image Alt Text: A Photograph of an empty classroom with chairs stacked on the desks. Image via Pixabay. I follow Bomani Jones on Twitter (and you should too), and this morning his feed alerted me to a news story about the firing of a Black, non-tenure-track (NTT)...
How To Write An Amazon Book Review
Authors depend on book reviews written by readers. If you read a lot of books, and you don't know this yet, you can read about why here, and here, and other places too. It's good information to have. Writers and readers have always had a close relationship, unless...
Disability Portrayal, a Hollywood Tragedy
Image Alt Text: A fisheye photograph of the Hollywood sign from the back at sunset. Creative Commons image via Pixabay. I was skimming through my Instagram, when I came across a recent post by my friend Tipsy Tullivan. (Tipsy is a pseudonym for a great writer who...
Should We Just Chill Out About Colbert and the FCC?
Image Alt Text: A photograph of Stephen Colbert of the set of The Late Show, conversing with guest John Kerry. On Monday, May 1, 2017, Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show, unleashed a string of school-yard insults on President Trump that we can assume made our...
The Invisible Adjunct Hero at Kentucky
Image Alt-Text: The University of Kentucky Logo with the hand-written word FAIL in red across it. A story recently broke about stolen exams at the University of Kentucky, how a student crawled through an air duct to steal a statistics final in order to cheat. He let...
Latest Monthly Missive: Daytime Moon
My latest monthly email missive, "Writing Isn't Sexy," just went out today, titled "Daytime Moon." Here's an excerpt: I was walking home from my favorite coffeeshop the other day and pow, there was a daytime moon straight ahead. You can't always see them here in NC...
Men Demand Things of Me
I woke up on International Women's Day to this: yet another demand (via email) by a man I do not know for free labor by me for his personal benefit. In this case, the man wanted free career coaching, something I do for money. Requests like these happen far more often...
Hey sorry I’ve been really busy writing about T*ump
Image Alt-Text: A photograph of a pair of old-fashioned leather boxing gloves lying on a punching bag. Mostly I've been writing about freedom of the press and authoritarianism, but also about the judiciary and separation of powers. Mostly this writing is fast-paced...
We Are All Enemies of the State
Image Alt-Text: Monochrome photograph of a stone wall with a metal-barred window with one glass pane shattered. What does it mean for a presidential administration to declare itself at “war" with the U.S. media, to declare the U.S. media an “opposition party” and then...