Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Men’s Rights Activists are a particular strain of misogynist who couch their hatred of women in appropriating a language of victimhood. As an avowed feminist, I have encountered them many times, including when I put a defense of feminism on a website haunted by MRAs, and hung around in the comments for a few days …
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 1223 Chapter word count: 3535Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 13606Total goal: 70000 Chapter is well structured now. Other deadlines loom for a few days so no intention to work on the book. We’ll see.
Last week I blogged about Candida Moss’ piece on relics and commerce. She’s got another piece out, this one on historical prosthetic limbs. Excavations of an ancient tomb near Turpan, China, have uncovered the 2,200-year-old remains of a man buried with a hoof-tipped prosthetic limb. In a paper recently published in the Journal of Chinese …
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 1098 Chapter word count: 2311Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 12383Total goal: 70000 Mostly wrote on Sandra Bland and edited/expanded earlier sections..
From Vox, Julia Belluz has quite a story. The University of Maryland issued a press release about a new study on the effects of a single brand of chocolate milk on cognitive and motor skill tests in high school athletes. The story, as she documents, is that Fifth Quaker Fresh funded research, the scientists did …
See here for primer on these posts. Today I drove to UW-Whitewater and gave a workshop on public writing. Then I drove home and skyped to participate in a panel presenting on disability rights and police violence to Berkeley law students. But I knew how Chapter 2 should start, so talked it out voice-to-text as …
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 811 Chapter word count: 6870Chapter goal: 8500 but calling it a draft, because reasons.Total word count: 10071Total goal: 70000 I think chapter 1 is drafted. I need to add a few paragraphs on Disability Incarcerated, which is a terrific book, and there will be more …
Sureshbahi Patel was beaten by an Alabama police officer for, as near as I can tell, not speaking English. I like to think of this as akin to other situations in which people do not process verbal commands – whether through hearing loss, not speaking English, ear buds, sensory processing, etc. The man who beat …
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 1148 Chapter word count: 6059Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 9260Total goal: 70000 Semester starts tomorrow. May slow me down.
The Middle East is going through a transformation that will play out for a generation, rooted in conflicts that date back millennia. – Barack Obama, State of the Union 2016 I’ve been thinking about conflicts around the globe. While many of them occur in similar places as conflicts in the past, and while superficially conflicting …