Book Accountability Post #12
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..
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The Chocolate Milk Mustache of the Corporatization of the University
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…
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Book Accountability Post #11
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…
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Book Accountability Post #10
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…
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No Accountability in Alabama #CultOfCompliance Case
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…
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Book Accountability Post #9
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.
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Conflicts Lasting Millennia and the State of the Union
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…
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Book Accountability Post #8
See here for primer on these posts. Daily word count: 1328 Chapter word count: 4911Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 8112Total goal: 70000 Wrote about Philip Coleman, Laquan McDonald, Quintonio LeGrier, and Betty Jones. Then wrote about Assertive Community Treatment vs the Murphy Bill’s priorities. May add a touch on Assistive Outpatient Treatment as coercion tomorrow,…
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Relics and Commerce: The Buddha’s Tooth
My scholarly work focuses on the movement of relics and the way that movement enables storytelling and cultural creation. Although I write about the 13th century (and the centuries surrounding it), the urge to tell stories about objects, especially objects as they move, is widespread. It’s part of the way we solidify, as it were,…
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Book Accountability Post #7
See here for primer on these posts. I did no writing over the weekend. Instead, my son turned 9. Read about it here. I did a few edits on a Hillary Clinton and autism piece. Daily word count: 1378 Chapter word count: 3583Chapter goal: 8500Total word count: 6784Total goal: 70000 Summarized history of deinstitutionalization in…