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I have a new piece up at Al Jazeera America about barriers to inclusions in US schools for children with disabilities. I am in regular conversation with parents across the U.S. who are struggling through much more difficult situations, whether from abuse, mockery or just general resistance to meeting a child’s needs. Sometimes school districts are…

Police violence against people with hearing loss is a far too common occurrence and serves as a central evidence for the cult of compliance. These people are being killed not for being threats, but for not following commands promptly. I am also interested in the ways that ear buds, cell phones, and those around other…

This spring I unexpectedly became a TV writer for Vice.com I’ve am trained as a critic, but had been writing mostly about hard news for CNN and Al Jazeera, and higher ed for the Chronicle. Still, I did think and write a lot about medievalism in modern media (news and entertainment) as well as representations…

This is a resource post for an upcoming piece about work/life fit and our gendered discourse. I believe these results are a problem for everyone and will discuss it more fully. In the meantime, you too can open a search window and replicate my results. All searches from 6/12/15. 112000 results for “working dad.” 134000…

Yesterday I wrote my first piece for the Washington Post  on a bad experience we’ve had with Nico and inclusion. It’s not a terrible experience, but I worry a lot about kids whose families don’t know how to advocate for their children, or those who do but feel alone. “Nico will get to participate as an…

Last month, I wrote a widely-read blog post on what I found when reading 2 months worth of opinion essays on higher ed at the New York Times. I’ve been trying to get a publication interested having me write up what I find when reading a years’ worth of essays, but so far no dice….

Today over at Inside Higher Education, John Warner has a great piece on “After Wisconsin.” He writes:  The erosion, or worse, destruction of tenure is very bad news for contingent faculty[1].The forces that seek to erode tenure are the exact same ones that are the root causes of the adjunctification of the professorate, shrinking public…

My book isn’t about racists. It’s about people falsely accused of racism by people in an ideological fervor. https://t.co/QgaCtWMZdS — jonronson (@jonronson) June 9, 2015 So my morning on Twitter was interesting.  Apparently, one of the racist women at the pool in violent incident in McKinney TX has been identified, and there’s a Facebook page calling…

I had three published essays and five blog posts this week. One of them was on the problems with Autism Speaks, published in the New York Times – Motherlode Parenting section. It was important to me to put this piece in a high profile, high prestige, publication. I keep meeting smart, well-intentioned, people who do not…