Turns out it's not just anti-vaxxers getting on my nerves these days, it's also vaccinated people who are being dangerously ignorant about the world that disabled folks also navigate. Read more
Turns out it's not just anti-vaxxers getting on my nerves these days, it's also vaccinated people who are being dangerously ignorant about the world that disabled folks also navigate. Read more
Of course I'm in favor of bodily autonomy: who, especially those of us who consider ourselves feminists, wouldn't be? But alas, COVID is testing the limits of this word's meanings, and I think many are missing a key point. Read more
This phrase was recently uttered to me and a companion who remarked on someone's lack of masking indoors during the ongoing pandemic. I plan to unpack it a bit, because it filled me with rage, and because it illustrates a sad deficiency in American worldview. Read more
...you know how the rest of the song goes, right? The title came to me when I was pondering the state of the world and all I could come up with is that everything is horrifying and I don't know what to do about it. Read more
Since I'm teaching First Year Seminar this year, I'm teaching academic writing skills through a variety of assignments...but of course, this is making me reflect on when and how I first learned to write. Read more
As a body scholar and feminist, I hunger for ways to explore and inhabit our bodies that are not bound by shame, and Sonya Renee Taylor's book delivers exactly that. Read more
I just received a contract in the last week to stay on at my university, and I'm relieved to have at least that much stability while wondering what the future holds. Read more