by Katie | Jan 28, 2017 | Law, Social Justice
:: What does it mean for a presidential administration to declare itself at “war” with the U.S. media, to declare the U.S. media an “opposition party” and then endorse fringe media that cater to its whims? I was getting my doctorate in rhetoric when George W....
by Katie | Jan 15, 2017 | Freelance Academic, Life is Long, 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 | Nov 14, 2016 | Life is Long, Social Justice
:: No one should be surprised that the U.S. elected a racist, sexist, ableist, tax-evading, draft-dodging, racist, Islamophobic, sexist president. I’ve kept quiet on the election for about a week, mostly to give those who are far more eloquent than I am a chance...
by Katie | Oct 12, 2016 | Disability, Social Justice
:: We’ve turned the people who are supposed to keep us safe into weapons. I have no reason to fear the police. The modern police was created to keep people who look exactly like me safe from harm. I am a white woman. I am to be, as every male politician is...
by Katie | Apr 15, 2016 | Social Justice
:: I’m just wondering if there isn’t space in this world for more than irony. And cruelty. I traveled by train to Washington, D.C., mid-week this week for work. Union Station in D.C. is under construction, but it is still a beautiful building. On Thursday,...
by Katie | Dec 29, 2015 | Law, Social Justice
:: Here is the list of things I said to my white, 6yo son about Tamir Rice, guns, race, and police, as best I can remember. “Please DON’T. If you don’t care about these issues all of the time. DO NOT FOLLOW ME today. I hate it so much. Thanks.”...