by Katie | Feb 1, 2019 | Freelance Academic, My Books
:: I’m not perfect. You’re not perfect. We’re all Okay. That’s what THE FREELANCE ACADEMIC is all about. I wrote a new book. This isn’t totally surprising, since writing books is a Thing I Do. But this one is particularly meaningful to me...
by Katie | Jan 24, 2019 | Editing and Writing Coaching, Freelance Academic
:: In short, with Succeeding Outside The Academy, I wanted to create the book that I needed when I was changing careers. This post is simultaneously published on Kelly J. Baker’s blog. From 2013 to 2015, Kelly J. Baker wrote a monthly column for Chronicle Vitae...
by Katie | Oct 16, 2017 | Disability, Freelance Academic, My Books, Social Justice
:: Three years ago, I wrote a column for a magazine about hiding my psychiatric disability because I feared for my job in higher education. Three years later, disability, in particular, mental health, became a regular beat of mine, and I’ve written essays and...
by Katie | May 7, 2017 | Freelance Academic
:: Overworking your contingent faculty is nothing to brag about, Kentucky. 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 another student into the...
by Katie | Mar 8, 2017 | Feminism, Freelance Academic, Life is Long, Social Justice
:: Women know how precious my time is. 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...
by Katie | Jan 15, 2017 | Freelance Academic, Life is Long, Racial Justice, Social Justice
:: You don’t measure human work in widgets. You can’t. I woke up this Sunday morning worried about money—making enough of it, selling enough stories to make enough of it, saving enough of it for my kids’ school and for retirement and for emergencies,...
