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...
On Not Writing
:: Since NTTs are no less driven or intelligent or educated than their tenure-track colleagues, what do we do with our creative energies? Recently, I was having a heart-to-heart-over-coffee in order to avoid grading papers with a colleague of mine. She said that she...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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