Freelance Academic Manifesto
:: So, what does it mean to be a freelance academic? From my first post on this topic: To be a Freelance Academic is to recognize this bifurcation that we contingent professors face, and then to try to mend it. So, on the note of “mending,” this manifesto...
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? It’s been over a month since I posted last, but I refuse to fall into that...
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. Those who’ve actually been reading this blog for a while (not that...
This “Older Adjunct” and Her Many Responsibilities
:: Given our precariousness and our responsibilities, what is our responsibility as adjunct intellectuals? In today’s riposte to the well-riposted article by Nicholas Kristof about why academics don’t write as public intellectuals, Corey Robin...
This Writer’s Writer’s Block
:: Why haven’t I been blogging? Fear. After my last post, I gave more thought to why I hadn’t been writing on what is, essentially, my professional blog. I came up with a very specific reason: fear. Every time I sat down to give thoughtful analysis to the...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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