Katie’s Blog: Essays, News, Marginalia
Writing Roundup: February 2015
:: This month’s roundup of writing I’ve published around the internet.
Why It Stings, or Disability and Oscars 2015
Image Alt-Text: Close-up photograph of a wasp on a blue flower. Image via Laura Collins Britton, lcbritton.com. I didn't watch the Oscars for a variety of reasons. First, there was the complete White-Out of the awards nominations, which is just gross, especially in a...
The Super Bowl of White Male Privilege
This is all I could think about last night while watching the Super Bowl. I'm sure I'm not the only one. (Heads up: No mention of the half-time show follows because that would take an entire post in and of itself. Plus this is about white male privilege. Katy Perry...
Love Poem
:: I saw a tweet come across my feed today that Tom Sleigh is doing a reading a bookstore near Harvard. (I live nowhere near Harvard.)
Conversation with Elizabeth Keenan about Higher Ed
:: I do think that academia trains us to not ask for things, to be meek and wait our turns. Or to accept as our due when the spotlight only shines on a special chosen few.
News, The
:: I don’t even know how to write a blog post in our present news cycle.
Guess What Went To Press?
:: Back in 2011, when I was still pregnant with my now-3-year-old and Jordynn's baby was still a twinkle in her eye (as my father would say), we embarked on this book project. Jordynn and I are pretty psyched that this one is finally at the printer. The full...
Four Years’ Work: A Book on the Sudan and Lost Children
:: I still have trouble reconciling that refugee teen whom I can only imagine with the man I know, father of four, scientist, loving husband. Four years ago, through my sister and brother-in-law, I met a remarkable family here in Chapel Hill. First I met Emmanuel; his...
Negative Capability
:: Why on Earth would I take time to critique higher education if I didn’t care so much about making it better for everyone? For students—first and foremost—and for faculty, staff, and everyone who is a part of this extremely valuable public good?
Sour Grapes, or Waking Up to Inequities in Higher Ed?
:: The challenge isn’t figuring out how other people see you. It’s figuring out how YOU see you—and what you want to be for yourself.
The Uglier Side of Academia
:: “The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” -James Baldwin
So I Wrote This Thing About Rape…
:: Let’s say “running with it” equaled getting my ass kicked, but I finally went through the rape reporting process and wrote the essay. I actually scheduled a date on my planner called “Reporting Day.” Reporting Day was a terrible day.
01. About Me
Author, essayist, sometime law professor. Topics that will get me talking: mental health and disability, sexual violence, and making words happen. I want to be your friend, even if I have trouble showing it.
03. Letter
