I am writing a review of Mad Max: Fury Road for Vice. To prepare, I recently watched all three original Mad Max films and live-tweeted them. I was struck by levels of deep concept and artistry in 1 and 2, and how 3 really moved another direction (with Tina Turner, a huge soundtrack, and a lot…
Tomorrow at 5 P.M. PT I will be guest hosting #wjchat, a “chat for web journalists on Wednesdays at 5 p.m. PT. We talk about all things content, technology, ethics, & business of journalism on the web.” The topic will be disability and journalism. I invite people from he disability community to join and talk to…
Here we go again. An incoming professor of color, Saida Gundy, made comments that were, at most, provocative. She said that white, college age males, were a problem population (that’s the provocative one). She also said that white men are responsible for slavery and its legacy in this country (that’s indisputably true). I’m not linking…
Having encountered yet another elite R1 professor telling us what we, professors in general, are doing wrong, I thought I’d take a few moments and survey the NYT Opinion Page on Higher Education. I may write something longer and more formal on what I found. I have to tell you that I’m angry, and I’m…
Happy Mother’s Day. I planted lilacs, and then together we filled in our flower and vegetable garden. This morning, I’m making two kinds of crepes – sweet (with nutella or fruit or jam) and speck + cheese savory ones. I also ground a lamb leg recently and made sausage, and am considering whether some of that…
Prisons are the asylums of our age. We just don’t call them that. Then, when people with mental disabilities end up incarcerated, they are horrifically vulnerable to abuse from both prison employees and other prisoners. Moreover, prison staff even when not intentionally abusive, are not well-trained in responding to the needs of people with disabilities,…
@Lollardfish Rly like that you took on “boondoggle” issue. By def’n not a boondoggle for those who have to pay our own way much of the time. — Carrie Schroeder (@ctschroeder) May 6, 2015 Yesterday at the Chronicle of Higher Education, I had a new piece defending academic conferences. I talk about the kinds of…
When Eric Garner’s killers were not charged, I wrote a piece for CNN about the intersection of disability and race in his and other deaths at the hands of law enforcement. Ever since I heard that Freddie Gray asked for an inhaler before the police closed the door on the van and began give him…
Yesterday a professor at Princeton saw fit to ask in the New York Times “What is the purpose of the conference?” She meant is as a setup for a rant about how boring they are all are, writing: If everyone is content with the conference as a legitimate custom, why do post-conference sentiments typically range from disappointment…
How we talk about disability matters. For example, I have often criticized Autism Speaks and anti-vax groups (not the same – AS is not AntiVax, they have other problems) for the way they talk about autism as a disease needing a cure. I assure you, my autistic friends are not diseased. Moreover, it’s absolutely clear…