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
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...
by Katie | Mar 8, 2017 | Feminism, Freelance Academic, Life is Long, Social Justice
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...
by Katie | Jan 15, 2017 | Freelance Academic, Life is Long, Racial Justice, Social Justice
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, having enough of it for our monthly budget. I was worried that I...
by Katie | Aug 7, 2016 | Creative Writing, Freelance Academic, Life is Long
Image Alt-Text: Monochrome photograph of grass stalks coated in ice crystals. Image credit: Laura Collins Britton. lcbritton.com 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...
by Katie | Jun 12, 2015 | Freelance Academic, Social Justice, Teaching
As academics we have to write this thing called a “teaching philosophy statement” to send off with job applications. The initials of such a document are quite funny (TPS), and many authors of TPSs view them as a waste of time. Surely no one reads them,...
