Essays

Here are my most recent essays, and some selected older ones. To see them all, use the links.

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How to Write Publicly About Mental Illness
May 1, 2019
Women in Higher Education: Writing About Surviving and Being an Expert on Sexual Assault
April 1, 2019
Catapult: Friendship Has Always Been Hard for Me—I Hope I Can Make It Easier for My Kids
March 25, 2019
Booktrib: Review of WHY WE LIE by Amy Impellizzeri
March 14, 2019
Disability Acts: “Dan Mallory and ‘Bipolar Made Me Do It'”
March 5, 2019
Women in Higher Education: Chancellor Folt and the Double Bind of Women Leaders in Higher Ed
March 1, 2019
Catapult: My Son and I Don’t Do Well with Chaos—and That’s Okay
Feb. 12, 2019
Women in Higher Education: Do One Thing
Feb. 1, 2019
Catapult: For Parents and Children with Psychiatric Disabilities, the Stigma Creates an Extra Fight We Don’t Need
Jan. 7, 2018
BookTrib: “True Places” Captures Identity
Jan. 3, 2019
Women in Higher Education: My Pie Is Full
Jan. 1, 2019
Women in Higher Education: We’ve Been Tolerating Bretts—But Not Anymore
Dec. 1, 2018
Catapult: When You’re a Mom with Anxiety Disorder, You Know the Monsters Are Real
Nov. 26, 2018
Women in Higher Education: You’re Super—And a Hero—Not a Superhero
Nov. 1, 2018
Disability Acts: The Inescapable Images of Ableism
Oct. 21, 2018
Catapult: Finding a World Big Enough for My Twice-Exceptional Kids
Oct. 17, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Find the Middle Lane
Oct. 1, 2018
The Establishment: My Disability Story Isn’t For Your Catharsis
Sept. 25, 2018
Writers on Writing: I Need Coffee: Muddling Through a Media Kit
Sept. 5, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Federal Student Aid Should Be Freedom, Not a Trap
Sept. 1, 2018
Women in Higher Ed: Held Accountable: An Interview with Andrea Pino
Aug. 1, 2018
Catapult: The World Doesn’t Bend for Disabled Kids (or Disabled Parents)
July 10, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Trust Disabled Students and Their Technology
July 1, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Quit Lit is About Labor Conditions
June 1, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Stop Scapegoating the Mentally Ill
May 1, 2018
Disability Acts: Awakening to the Intersection of Disability and Gender Violence
April 9, 2018
Women in Higher Ed: The Important Activism of Kids These Days
April 1, 2018
Disability Stories: Conferences Must Embrace Accessible Technology
March 16, 2018
Thoughts on Journalism: Playboy Sued Boing Boing—They Failed. But We All Suffer For It.
March 13, 2018
Women in Higher Education: How Institutions Handle Atrocities Can Change the World—Or Not
Mar. 1, 2018
Women in Higher Education: The First Amendment and Racism on Campus
Feb. 1, 2018
BookTrib: Forkner’s “The Real Thing” Teaches Profound Truths
Jan. 18, 2018
Women in Higher Education: Sexual Harassment in Higher Ed
Jan. 1, 2018
The Chronicle of Higher Education: On Faculty and Mental Illness
Dec. 18, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Campus Protest, DACA, and the Age of Constant Crisis
Dec. 1, 2017
Huffington Post: When You Talk About Banning Laptops, You Throw Disabled Students Under the Bus
Nov. 27, 2017
Women in Higher Education: What the Fight About Confederate Monuments Can Teach Us About Academic Activism
Nov. 1, 2017
BookTrib: Mental Health and Family Relationships Come Together in Yoerg’s “All the Best People”
Oct. 12, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Affirmative Action and the Fight for the Status Quo
Oct. 1, 2017
Chronicle of Higher Education: The Search for Stability as a Freelance Academic
Sept. 13, 2017
Women in Higher Education: When Disability Meets Sexual Assault
Sept. 1, 2017
Chronicle Vitae: Still Screaming, But Not Over Nothing
Aug. 3, 2017
Writers on Writing: I Need Coffee: Websites for Writers
Aug. 3, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Reporting Rape When You’re Not a Student
Aug. 1, 2017
Chronicle Vitae: A Memoir on Leaving the Faculty
July 6, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Indiana University Bans Players for Sexual and Domestic Violence: Is That Enough?
July 5, 2017
Writers on Writing: I Need Coffee: Writing What You Know, the Journalism and Blogging Edition
July 2, 2017
DAME Magazine: The NRA Has Declared War on America
June 29, 2017
Women in Higher Education: How to Have the Accommodations Talk
June 1, 2017
Motherwell: With New Life comes a Fear of Death
May 22, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Believe Your Colleagues with Disabilities
May 1, 2017
Women in Higher Education: Don’t Accommodate Me
April 1, 2017
Chronicle Vitae: Bridging Academia
March 7, 2017
Paste Magazine: Our Gun Problem Is More Than a Mental Health Problem
Mar. 2, 2017
Women In Higher Education: How Making My Teaching Accessible Made My Teaching Better
March 1, 2017
Dame Magazine: If All the News Is Fake, Why Isn’t Donald Filing Libel Suits?
Feb. 20, 2017
Quartz: Trump’s disregard for the judicial system has accidentally made law school cool again
Feb. 15, 2017
Chronicle Vitae: Collegiality and Disability
Feb. 7, 2017
Women in Higher Education: The Unethical FERPA Roadblock
Feb. 1, 2017
Thoughts on Journalism: We Are All Enemies of the State
Jan. 29, 2017
Dame Magazine: Is Peter Thiel Going to Help Donald Trump Kill the Press?
Jan. 17, 2017
Women in Higher Education: When FERPA Doesn’t Protect Students
Jan. 1, 2017
Huffington Post: How to Write a Holiday Love Story
Dec. 20, 2016
Full Grown People: Reading Romance When You Were Never a Virgin
Dec. 6, 2016
Women in Higher Education: Why You Should Care About FERPA
Dec. 1, 2016
Quartz: Barring felons from voting sounds tough on crime, but it’s quietly destroying American communities
Nov. 17, 2016
Women in Higher Education: Not a Compliant Woman Colleague
Nov. 1, 2016
ZipBooks Blog: Solo 401(k) for the solopreneur
Sept. 5, 2016
Dame Magazine: Why Should We Feel Sorry for Melania Trump?
July 20, 2016
Quartz: Brock Turner proves America’s justice system is broken—but not how you think
June 10, 2016
The Establishment: How The TSA Perpetuates Harmful Mental Health Stigmas
May 12, 2016
Huffington Post: We Believe You, Even If You’re Broken
April 15, 2016
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We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out (Essay)
April 2016
Quartz: American lawyers have an Atticus Finch complex, and it’s killing the profession
March 31, 2016
The Toast: The Consequences of Resisting a Professor’s Advances
March 23, 2016
Dame Magazine: Hulk Hogan v. Gawker is More Than Just a Freedom of the Press Issue
March 18, 2016
Women in Higher Education: Trigger Warnings Are a Disability Issue
March 1, 2016
Quartz: Here’s how America’s confusing and outdated rape statutes of limitations are hurting victims
Feb. 22, 2016
Dame Magazine: How the Law Failed Kesha
Feb. 22, 2016
Chronicle Vitae: Working When Your Brain Isn’t
Nov. 20, 2015
Huffington Post: I Need Coffee: Writing Isn’t Sexy, But It Can Pay the Bills
Nov. 12, 2015
Dame Magazine: Did a Jane Doe Just Deal Rape Culture a Huge Blow
Sept. 9, 2015
Chronicle Vitae: Freelance Academics as Public Intellectuals
Aug. 14, 2015
Side B Magazine: Why I Didn’t Report Being Raped in College
April 27, 2015
Dame Magazine: Breaking the Mad Genius Myth
April 22, 2015
The Toast: A Mother’s Suicide and the Guilty Burden of Statistics
April 9, 2015
Chronicle of Higher Education: Raped on Campus? Don’t Trust Your College to Do the Right Thing
March 2, 2015
Dame Magazine: Is the Media’s Desperation for Readers Becoming a Health Hazard?
Dec. 8, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: A Manifesto for the Freelance Academic
Oct. 31, 2014
The Toast: Being Counted: Reporting My Rape at a School Under Title IX Investigation
Sept. 16, 2014
Slate: The Worst Part of the Bar Exam
Aug. 7, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: ‘She’s So Schizophrenic!’: How Not to Alienate Your Colleagues with Psychiatric Disabilities
July 9, 2014
Chronicle Vitae: Disclosure Blues: Should You Tell Colleagues About Your Mental Illness?
June 13, 2014
Hybrid Pedagogy: A Lecturer’s Almanac
Oct. 21, 2013