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 | Oct 7, 2017 | Disability, Social Justice
:: Our gun problem is not a mental health problem. … Scapegoating works when a group is small and already vulnerable. People with major mental illnesses make up a small portion of our population, and they are among our most vulnerable. In the wake of every mass...
by Katie | Jun 25, 2017 | Social Justice, Teaching
:: In this case, a professor wasn’t fired because of reverse racism. She was fired because of plain old regular racism. I follow Bomani Jones on Twitter (and you should too), and this morning his feed alerted me to a news story about the firing of a Black,...
by Katie | May 15, 2017 | Journalism, Law, Social Justice
:: When the FCC Chair mouths off about his duty to enforce rules when discussing speech offensive to his own political party, his words have a chilling effect on speech. On Monday, May 1, 2017, Stephen Colbert, host of The Late Show, unleashed a string of school-yard...
by Katie | Mar 8, 2017 | Freelance Academic, Lady Issues, 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 | Feb 24, 2017 | Journalism, Law, Social Justice
:: I’ve been writing about freedom of the press and authoritarianism, but also about the judiciary and separation of powers. Mostly this writing is fast-paced and exhausting in its fast-paced-ness, but it is worth it. You can catch it all here: (1) DAME...