Katie’s Blog: Essays, News, Marginalia
Epiphanies and Bending Reality
:: For those of us living alternative-academic, post-academic, and freelance lives, we don’t have set tracks to follow. Our tracks are, by necessity, set by our own creativity. They literally (there’s that word again) are what we make them.
Article Remix and Escaping the Publishing Double Bind
:: My doctoral program did a really great job training me to be an expert in an area of study—but not a really great job training me to share this expertise with the world outside of academia.
Freelance Academic Manifesto
:: So, what does it mean to be a freelance academic?
On New Leaves and Networking
:: Networking: Don’t you think, in our new virtual age, we can strip the word of its sleaziness and imbue it with what it has given me these last few weeks? A community, and hope?
What Does It Mean to Be a Freelance Academic?
:: Indeed, the biggest change required to become a Freelance Academic is to recognize that, in the words of a dear friend from grad school, They’re never going to let you in the club.
April is . . . not what I expected: On the commonplace of rape
:: Rape is commonplace until you try to prove to someone else that rape happened.
“Why Birds Have Wings”: Prose Poem about Rape
:: She tries to say she is sorry, so sorry, but the words fly away like birds.
Liberal Heroes and The Cancel Colbert Twitter “Debate”
:: White liberals love Colbert. He’s their hero. Colbert (and others like him) is white liberals’ modern-day Atticus Finch. He’s a screen-based liberal hero who makes white liberals feel good about themselves by taking down easy conservative and right-wing targets.
This “Older Adjunct” and Her Many Responsibilities
:: Given our precariousness and our responsibilities, what is our responsibility as adjunct intellectuals?
This Writer’s Writer’s Block
:: Why haven’t I been blogging? Fear.
On Not Writing
:: Since NTTs are no less driven or intelligent or educated than their tenure-track colleagues, what do we do with our creative energies?
What “Counts” as Knowledge
:: How do we teach our law students to prioritize alternative sources of knowledge? To prioritize "vernacular thought, theory, community, maps, places, intuitions"? This seems to me to be a critical lawyering skill, at the intersection of client counseling,...
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.
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