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,...
by Katie | Aug 7, 2016 | Creative Writing, Freelance Academic, Life is Long
:: Writing is both easy and hard. For some people, one of my children, for instance, writing can be very, very hard. One of my children has a learning disability that makes forming words and reading them difficult. For me, forming words has never been hard, even...
by Katie | Jun 12, 2015 | Freelance Academic, Social Justice, Teaching
:: He really hit his pace when we got to Wallace Stevens. “This isn’t some stiff telling you what happened at the dance,” he said about “Life is Motion.” “You’re there, your human spirit merges with the human spirit in the poem.” As academics we have to write this...
