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...
by Katie | May 13, 2015 | Creative Writing, Freelance Academic, Journalism
:: Writing Isn’t Sexy is my mostly-monthly newsletter for readers and friends. Those who have been reading my work for a while, especially the Freelance Academics out there, know how much I love writing manifestos. What is Writing Isn’t Sexy about? Here...
by Katie | Dec 18, 2014 | Freelance Academic
:: 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. Note: This piece was published simultaneously on the blog of Elizabeth Keenan (the piece’s...
